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NFL: Eagles/Lions _ Donovan McNabb threw for 356 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a score as Philadelphia beat Detroit 30-to-13. While the Eagles improve to 3-and-0 the surprising Lions fall to 2-and-1. | 1 |
Kansas City Chiefs KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Ticker) -- David Carr and Kris Brown gave Dick Vermeil another reason to cry. After Carr put his team in position, Brown drilled a 49-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining as | 1 |
Notes: Rotation questions for Torre Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre have an interesting week ahead of them, as they try to sort out the Yankees #39; starting rotation for the postseason. | 1 |
Aid workers braced for more Darfur refugees UN refugee workers are readying themselves for an influx of refugees from Darfur as people in the western Sudan region take advantage of the end of the rainy season and a promised government clampdown on militia violence. | 0 |
Putin Says State Firms Can Buy Yukos Assets State-controlled companies have every right to bid for Yukos assets if they are sold to pay off the firm #39;s whopping tax debt, although the government is not seeking to nationalize the company, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. | 2 |
EU prepares to battle Microsoft BRUSSELSRegulators are set to argue that the European Union needs to take a tougher stand against Microsoft Corp. because its antitrust rules are different from those that allowed the company to avoid making | 2 |
Business in Brief Yukos #39; largest oil-producing unit regained power supplies from Tyumenenergo, a Siberia-based electricity generator, Friday after the subsidiary pledged to pay 440 million rubles (\$15 million) in debt by Oct. 3. | 2 |
Despite healthy global economy, ministers still face tricky issues The global economy is healthy and no major financial crises loom. Yet finance ministers meeting this week must confront uncertainties about the fight against terrorism, rising interest rates and volatile oil prices. | 2 |
Global finance chiefs won #39;t let oil dent optimism WASHINGTON: Global finance chiefs may admit this week that soaring oil prices are a cloud on a generally sunny world economic horizon but they will likely dismiss any chance they could drown growth. | 2 |
Tigers drop fifth straight When Tigers manager Alan Trammell described his bullpen #39;s recent struggles on Friday, he compared it to an offense being in a slump. | 1 |
Blair #39;s Silence Is #39;Kiss of Death #39; for Hostage The silence of Prime Minister Tony Blair is the kiss of death for British hostage Ken Bigley, his brother claimed tonight. Paul Bigley, who dramatically | 0 |
Update 1: UK Proposes Debt Relief for Poor Nations Britain will provide more debt relief for the world #39;s poorest countries and challenge other rich governments to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair #39;s government said Sunday. | 0 |
BAA caught in Net 'dirty tricks' campaign <strong>Analysis</strong> Lawyer calls for urgent domain dispute reform | 3 |
Fannie CEO May Not Withstand Challenge (Reuters) Reuters - The vaunted political and financial\skills of Fannie Mae Chief Executive Franklin Raines may not be\enough to save him professionally after a scathing regulatory\report last week detailed pervasive accounting lapses at the\mortgage finance company. | 2 |
Gasoline Prices Rise with Storm (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. average retail gasoline prices\rose over the last two weeks as storms temporarily shut down\oil production and refineries along with Gulf Coast, an\industry analyst said on Sunday. | 2 |
News Brief: Computer Failure Grounds Lufthansa Flights The computer error was fixed after a six-hour outage and services were expected to return to normal by the evening, Lufthansa said. | 3 |
Formula One: Barrichello wins in China SHANGHAI Rubens Barrichello won the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on Sunday, but while he occupied Michael Schumacher #39;s accustomed place atop the podium he could not take his teammate #39;s place at the center of attention. | 1 |
Soaring Eagles crush Lions Donovan McNabb threw for 356 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 30-13 win over Detroit. | 1 |
NFL: New Orleans 28, St. Louis 25 (OT) A 31-yard field goal by John Carney in overtime Sunday gave the New Orleans Saints a 28-25 win over St. Louis. Carney kicked five field goals in the game, including a 38-yarder | 1 |
Turkey Approves Revision of Penal Code Turkey #39;s Parliament approved a sweeping revision of the country #39;s penal code today to bring it closer to European Union norms, a step aimed at enhancing Turkish membership in the 25-nation bloc. | 0 |
Plane forced to land #39;on full emergency #39; An Olympic Airlines flight from Athens to New York was forced to land Sunday at London #39;s Stansted Airport quot;on a full emergency, quot; a spokeswoman said. | 0 |
Japan #39;concerned #39; on Korea missiles BEIJING Japanese negotiators expressed quot;serious concern quot; Sunday about North Korea #39;s missile program, a Japanese diplomat said. | 0 |
Falling Bond Yields: Not To Worry What #39;s up with the bond market? As the Federal Reserve has steadily increased short-term interest rates over the past few months, investors in the bond-trading pits have pushed long-term yields down. | 2 |
Davis Cup Tennis: For US and Spain, a little psychic compensation The Davis Cup is tennis #39;s best way of compensating, and that #39;s no reference to prize money, which is not the reason most of the world #39;s top men #39;s players still look forward to this century-old team competition. | 1 |
Newman dominates Dover; Gordon takes lead Ryan Newman left misfortune behind and ran away from the field, while four-time series champion Jeff Gordon took the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead Sunday at Dover International Speedway. | 1 |
Cricket: West Indies #39; winning revival LONDON West Indies has won the Champions Trophy, international one-day cricket #39;s second-most important title, beating England by two wickets at The Oval here. | 1 |
Hamas Leader Killed in Syria Car Bombing DAMASCUS, Syria -- A car bomb killed a leader of the militant group Hamas in Damascus on Sunday. Police at the scene of the explosion were seen retrieving pieces of the body of Izz el-Deen Subhi Sheik Khalil. | 0 |
Resistant Israeli Settlers May Get Prison JERUSALEM Sept. 26, 2004 - Armed settlers who resist evacuation could face five years in prison under a law proposed Sunday before next year #39;s planned removal of all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank. | 0 |
Iraq dogs Blair as party conference starts Iraq has overshadowed the start of Tony Blair #39;s Labour Party conference despite the prime minister #39;s efforts to turn attention to the domestic agenda ahead of a general election expected next year. | 0 |
More time to quiz terror suspects Police holding four men arrested on suspicion of a terrorist plot to buy radioactive material have been given more time to question them. | 0 |
Resistant Israeli Settlers May Get Prison (AP) AP - Armed settlers who resist evacuation could face five years in prison under a law proposed Sunday before next year's planned removal of all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank. | 0 |
N.B. hospital workers plan to take strike to premier's riding on first day (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospital workers are adopting an in-your-face strategy in their fight for higher wages by saying they will begin their strike Monday in Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding. | 0 |
Russia Terrorism Plan Meets Mixed Reviews (AP) AP - China on Friday welcomed a Russian draft resolution to draw up a new list of terror suspects who would be subject to extradition in a stepped-up global campaign against terrorism. But the United States and France eyed the plan with a measure of caution. | 0 |
Pro-Democracy Protest in Iran Gains Momentum TEHRAN (Reuters) - A rare pro-democracy protest in Tehran gained momentum late on Sunday with hundreds of cars pouring onto the streets, blaring horns and provoking an appearance from hardline vigilantes, witnesses said. | 0 |
UN refugee head makes Darfur plea The UN refugee chief calls on all sides in Darfur to "sort things out", amid reports of militia movements in the area. | 0 |
Red Sox Top Yanks in Flareup-Filled Game BOSTON - Curt Schilling allowed one hit in seven innings and Boston battered Kevin Brown in his return from a broken hand, beating the New York Yankees 11-4 Sunday in another flareup-filled game between the rivals. Boston's Pedro Astacio and New York's Brad Halsey were ejecte... | 0 |
Israel Claims Killing of Hamas Operative DAMASCUS, Syria - In a hit claimed by Israeli security officials, a senior Hamas operative was killed in a car bombing Sunday outside his house in Damascus, the first such killing of a leader of the Islamic militant group in Syria. Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil, 42, died inst... | 0 |
Carney #39;s 5 field goals give Saints OT Win Something about the St. Louis Rams always seems to bring out the best in the New Orleans Saints. It proved true again Sunday as John Carney kicked the last of his 5 field goals in overtime to defeat the Rams 28-25. | 1 |
NFL: Atlanta 6, Arizona 3 The Atlanta Falcons #39; Jay Feely kicked two field goals Sunday in a 6-3 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Feely #39;s field goals were from 25 and 23 yards in the first half. | 1 |
Roundup: Limo and Shibui win in Berlin Yoko Shibui continued Japan #39;s supremacy in the Berlin women #39;s marathon and Felix Limo extended Kenya #39;s dominance of the men #39;s race Sunday. | 1 |
Hamas plots revenge after leader assassinated By Hugh Macleod in Damascus and Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem. Hamas leaders pledged bloody retaliation yesterday after one of its senior figures in Damascus was assassinated in an attack widely read as a new | 0 |
Police given extra time to hold #39;dirty bomb #39; suspects Anti-terrorist police were granted a further five days yesterday to question four men arrested after a Sunday newspaper claimed they were plotting to detonate a chemical bomb in Britain or the US. | 0 |
AC Milan Beats Lazio 2-1 (AP) AP - Andriy Shevchenko's two second-half goals rallied defending champion AC Milan past Lazio 2-1, leaving the teams tied for fourth place in the Italian league. | 1 |
Acker-Macosko Shoots 11-Under 60 at Longs (AP) AP - Anna Acker-Macosko shot an 11-under 60 on Sunday at the Longs Drugs Challenge, one stroke off Annika Sorenstam's tour record. | 1 |
NFL Wrap: McNabb Sparkles as Eagles Rout Lions NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Philadelphia Eagles thumped the Detroit Lions 30-13 in a clash of two previously unbeaten teams in the NFL on Sunday. | 1 |
U.S.C. Stays Atop A.P. Poll; Okla. Earns No. 2 U.S.C. received 46 first-place votes in The Associated Press poll released Sunday, eight fewer than last week. | 1 |
Ravens Plow Bengals After two subpar efforts, Jamal Lewis finds his stride Sunday, running for 186 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown that clinches a 23-9 victory over the Bengals. | 1 |
Critics Cite Red Light Monitoring Risks (AP) AP - As Philadelphia prepares to install monitoring cameras at some city intersections, officials say they're not worried about studies that suggest the surveillance may lead to more accidents. | 3 |
Could a 'GBrowser' Spawn an 'MBrowser'? (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - If Google releases a browser, will Microsoft do an about-face and deliver a new standalone version of Internet Explorer? | 3 |
Egyptians Irked by Prisoner Swap Deal CAIRO, December 6 (IslamOnline.net amp; News Agencies) - Despite the Egyptian official denial of any deals behind the release of six Egyptian students detained in Israel and convicted Israeli spy Azzam Azzam, opposition figures and people lambasted what | 0 |
UPDATE: Origin #39;s Bid For NZ Contact Isn #39;t Fair - Adviser WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--New Zealand Contact Energy #39;s (CEN.NZ) independent directors Monday recommended that shareholders not accept a takeover offer from Australia #39;s Origin Energy Ltd. | 2 |
Rover Missions Renewed as Mars Emerges from Behind Sun As NASA #39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working. | 3 |
Formula One Race Features China #39;s New Taste for Luxury If any doubts remained that China has turned its back on socialist equality for the masses, they faded in the exhaust fumes Sunday as Rubens Barrichello #39;s flaming red Ferrari | 1 |
Johnson keeps IBF light heavyweight crown MEMPHIS (Tennessee): Jamaican-born Glen Johnson knocked out American Roy Jones junior in the ninth round on Saturday to retain his International Boxing Federation light heavyweight title. | 1 |
Vaughan must forget dispiriting reverse and look forward The England camp will no doubt feel depressed that their splendid season should have ended on a dispiriting note with their narrow defeat by the West Indies at The Oval. | 1 |
Real beaten again, Becks says no crisis MADRID - Just when they thought things would change for the better, Real Madrid slipped back into the mire of possibly a disastrous Spanish Primera Liga season. | 1 |
NKorea accuses Japan of revising defense policy towards militarism North Korea on Sunday accused Japan of using anti-terrorism moves as an excuse for militarism which put the Korean peninsula at risk of invasion. | 0 |
Origin #39;s NZ\$3.2 Billion Offer for Contact Too Low (Update2) Origin Energy Ltd., Australia #39;s second-largest energy retailer, probably won #39;t increase its stake in Contact Energy Ltd. much above the 51 percent it has already agreed to buy after | 2 |
Google accused of pandering to Chinese censors Google, the internet business that made its mantra quot;do no evil quot;, is accused of pandering to attempts by the Chinese government to censor certain websites. | 2 |
Arrivederci Roma for Voeller after 26 days ROME - Another week, another European soccer coach gone. Roma #39;s Rudi Voeller became the latest coaching casualty, handing in his resignation after the club #39;s 1-3 away defeat by nine-man Bologna on Saturday. | 1 |
Shibui breaks Berlin Marathon record; Limo wins men #39;s race Japan #39;s Yoko Shibui overcame a run-in with an official to win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a race-record 2 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, the fourth-best time for a woman at the distance. | 1 |
Newman wins DOVER, Del. Ryan Newman is the winner of the MBNA America 400 at Dover International Speedway in Delaware. Four-time series champion Jeff Gordon took the NASCAR Nextel Cup points lead by finishing third. | 1 |
23 killed in Iraq violence BAGHDAD: At least 23 people were killed in Iraq overnight and on Sunday as US Secretary for State Colin Powell acknowledged that organising elections throughout the country in January could be difficult. | 0 |
Labour slips to third place in UK poll LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has seen his ruling Labour Party slip to third place in a newspaper poll on the eve of its annual conference. | 0 |
Sparks 71, Monarchs 57 Mwadi Mabika scored 22 points and Tamecka Dixon had 17 points, nine rebounds and five assists to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 71-57 victory over the Sacramento Monarchs in the second game of their WNBA first-round playoff series Sunday. | 1 |
Manning tosses five TDs in first half The Colts #39; Peyton Manning and Green Bay #39;s Bret Favre had a sharp-shooting contest for a first-half score of 35-17 and leaving the opposing defenses full of holes at the RCA Dome today. | 1 |
Democrats signing up more new voters: report (AFP) AFP - Democrats have far outpaced Republicans in efforts to register new voters in two key US states, according to the New York Times, which conducted a county-by-county analysis of registration data in Ohio and Florida. | 0 |
Jaguars Surprise Again Fred Taylor ran for a 1-yard touchdown with 9 seconds left Sunday to push the Jaguars past the Titans, 15-12, moving to 3-0 despite scoring just 35 points this season. | 1 |
Texans Boot Chiefs Houston's Kris Brown caps a Texans rally by nailing a 50-yard field goal with 2 seconds left for a 24-21 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, dropping the defending AFC West champs to 0-3. | 1 |
Red Sox Belt Yankees Curt Schilling allows one hit in seven innings and Boston batters Kevin Brown in his return from a broken hand, beating the Yankees 11-4. | 1 |
NZ stocks: Down-time listings hold some interest between results and annual meetings - the NZX is keeping investors interested with a small flurry of listings over the week ahead. | 2 |
Four Geneva communities had the choice of voting online (Keystone) Of the 22,000 voters in Anieres, Cologny, Carouge and Meyrin, 2,723 chose to cast their votes online in four ballots on easing citizenship, introducing statutory maternity benefits nationwide, and preventing the closure of some 800 state-owned post offi... | 3 |
Golf: Stenson ends three-year wait for title WOBURN, England : Sweden #39;s Henrik Stenson won his first European Tour title for three years when he clinched a four-shot victory in The Heritage tournament. | 1 |
San Diego Chargers DENVER (Ticker) -- Jake Plummer more than made up for a lack of a running game. Plummer passed for 294 yards and two touchdowns as the Denver Broncos posted a 23-13 victory over the San Diego Chargers in a battle of AFC West Division rivals. | 1 |
SINGH WINS AGAIN Vijay Singh shot a final-round three-under-par 69 to hold off a charging Stewart Cink and win the 84 Lumber Classic. It was his third straight victory and tour-best eighth of the season. | 1 |
McNabb Helps Eagles Beat Lions, Reach 3-0: NFL Week 3 (Update1) Donovan McNabb passed for two touchdowns and ran for a third to give the Philadelphia Eagles a 30-13 victory over the Detroit Lions and their first 3-0 start since 1993. | 1 |
Shevchenko Puts Milan Back on Track A superb second-half performance by Andriy Shevchenko saw champions AC Milan kickstart their season with a 2-1 win in Rome against Lazio tonight. | 1 |
N.Korea calls missile launch reports quot;speculation quot; A senior North Korean official denied reports that the secretive communist state was preparing a missile launch, saying they were pure speculation, Japan #39;s Kyodo news agency reported today. | 0 |
Injury crisis engulfs Rangers SCOTTISH Premier League leaders Rangers have nine players out of action for Sunday #39;s clash against Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Pittodrie. | 1 |
Swiss referendum tests virtual democracy Swiss authorities have hailed as a success what they said was the world #39;s first binding internet vote in a national referendum. | 3 |
A Touchy Debate Over Voting With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes. | 3 |
YAHOO! and OMD Reveal Study Depicting Life Without the Internet Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, and OMD, the world #39;s leading media agency*, today unveiled the findings of an Internet Deprivation Study examining consumers #39; media habits | 3 |
Voeller dumps troubled AS Roma ROME: Rudi Voller (pic) quit as coach of Roma after just four league matches following their 3-1 defeat away to Bologna on Saturday. | 1 |
Heroics of Ryder Cup inspire Stenson to victory Having lost four of the last five Ryder Cups, an even bigger worry for American golf should be that they have lost the last three Walker Cups. | 1 |
Milan beats Lazio; Inter held to draw by Parma Andriy Shevchenko netted two second-half goals to rally 10-man AC Milan to a 2-1 win at Lazio on Sunday, lifting the defending league champion closer to the top of the Serie A standings. | 1 |
Seahawks 34, 49ers 0 Once again, the Seattle Seahawks won with their dominant defense. This time, they ended an NFL record streak. Matt Hasselbeck threw for 254 yards with two touchdowns, Shaun Alexander scored three TDs and Seattle #39;s | 1 |
Dozens killed in Iraq violence FALLUJAH, Iraq: US airstrikes on rebel-held Fallujah left 15 dead while an insurgent attack in another Sunni Arab town killed 10 more, as Britain and Egypt stepped up efforts Sunday to secure the release of hostages in Iraq. | 0 |
Schroeder #39;s party halts slump German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder #39;s party has halted an 18-month run of poll disasters by avoiding a fresh slump in local elections on Sunday, but will still need to make giant leaps to win a third term in 2006. | 0 |
Spy Imagery Agency Watching Inside U.S. (AP) AP - In the name of homeland security, America's spy imagery agency is keeping a close eye, close to home. It's watching America. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about 100 employees of a little-known branch of the Defense Department called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Ag... | 3 |
Navy to Shut Down Sub Radio Transmitters (AP) AP - With terrorism the new global threat, a network of radio antennas that let the Navy maintain secure communications with submarines at sea has become yet another Cold War relic. | 3 |
Israel Claims Killing of Hamas Operative (AP) AP - In a hit claimed by Israeli security officials, a senior Hamas operative was killed in a car bombing Sunday outside his house in Damascus, the first such killing of a leader of the Islamic militant group in Syria. | 0 |
Armed militia raises concern for refugees returning to Darfur (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - GENEINA, Sudan (CP) - Armed militiamen surged into a western border area where some Darfur refugees attempted to return to their raided village, United Nations security officials said Sunday, raising further concern about ho... | 0 |
Opium paraphernalia jumps from Asian taboo to hot collectible (AFP) AFP - Once feeding a scourge which ruined the lives of millions of Asians, opium-smoking paraphernalia has returned, but this time as hot and hip art collectibles being snapped up across the region at skyrocketing prices. | 0 |
Candidates Gear Up for Crucial Debates (AP) AP - This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must... | 0 |
Edwards Discusses War on Terror at Rally (AP) AP - Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards said Sunday a Kerry-Edwards administration would show no mercy to terrorists. | 0 |
Telstra in \$750m buyback By staff writers and wires. THE nationn #39;s biggest telco, Telstra Corp, is offering shareholders up to \$4.65 per share in a off-market buyback worth \$750 million. | 2 |
PeopleSoft teams up with IBM In a move likely to obstruct Oracle?s hostile take-over bid, PeopleSoft last week announced it will adopt IBM?s WebSphere as its preferred middleware platform. | 2 |
Philippine economy faces more inflation The Philippine central bank should raise interest rates or price inflation will bust out of the government #39;s 4 percent to 5 percent target for the year, a former Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor says. | 2 |
As for the competing IRAs, the Roth wins hands down In life, there are certain things that are beyond indispensable. Like brake lights, hot showers, birthday candles and second chances. | 2 |
Monitor duty is welcomed The channel may benefit from controversial European Union (EU) proposals to increase import tax duty on TFT monitors, according to resellers. | 3 |
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