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Update 1: Yukos Unit Evaluated for Sale to Pay Bill Assets of Russia #39;s beleaguered Yukos oil company should fetch at least \$15 billion, a senior official said Monday, as the company #39;s main production unit is evaluated for sale to offset a crushing back-tax bill. | 2 |
Walgreen posts higher quarterly profit Walgreen says its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings topped forecasts, rising 18 percent on higher prescription sales at stores open at least one year. | 2 |
Manchester United Reports Big Drop in Annual Profits English football (soccer) team Manchester United has reported a nearly 30 percent fall in its annual profits and warned that future results would be affected by a drop in media revenues. | 2 |
Nortel Networks Names Clent Richardson Chief Marketing Officer Nortel Networks Corp., North America #39;s bigger maker of phone equipment, named Clent Richardson as its chief marketing officer, filling a position that was vacant for almost two years. | 2 |
Oil Prices Soar on Supply Shortage Fears Oil prices soared to new highs on both sides of the Atlantic today as traders fretted over increasingly short supplies. The cost of crude in New York broke through the | 2 |
Ingram to acquire TechPac Ingram Micro is all set to acquire Tech Pacific, in a move that will significantly impact the Indian IT distribution and channels sector. | 2 |
Microsoft braces for EU anti-trust appeal US software giant Microsoft said it will abide by whatever ruling is handed down by a European appeal court hearing due to start this week against an EU condemnation for abusing its market dominance. | 2 |
Sports Court Hears Hamm Gold Medal Appeal (AP) AP - Paul Hamm appeared before the sports world's highest court Monday to argue why he should keep his Olympic gymnastics gold medal. | 1 |
Groundwork Laid for Spaceline LONDON-September 27, 2004 - A ticket may soon be all that separates you from a dream voyage to the final frontier. British entrepreneur Richard Branson says Virgin company plans to start offering commercial space flights over the next few years. | 3 |
Last-minute delay for X Prize rival The countdown to the conclusion of the privately funded race for space is producing some last-minute surprises, with a key competitor postponing its bid just days before its scheduled flight. | 3 |
Singh has Tiger running scared HAVING overtaken Tiger Woods as the world #39;s premier golfer, Vijay Singh pushed Woods further into his wake yesterday (AEST) by claiming the PGA Tour #39;s single-season money record. | 1 |
What we learned Detroit: They #39;re good enough to beat Chicago and Houston but they #39;re nowhere near the level of the Eagles. This game was over by the end of the first quarter, when Philadelphia led 14-0, and as one Eagle said | 1 |
Tennis: Tim slams Cup rules after defeat TIM Henman blasted the Davis Cup rule book as Great Britain today had to face up to another failure to reach the World Group. Henman and Greg Rusedski slumped to a 3-2 defeat over two days in Austria to be relegated to the Euro-African zone. | 1 |
Emblem of radical Palestinian organisation Hamas The killing of Hamas leader Izz ed-Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus on Sunday marks another step in the struggle between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas organisation which has been responsible for a recent spate of suicide attacks. | 0 |
SC declines consent for Taj Mahotsav A grand festival marking 350th year of Taj Mahal, beginning on Monday, ran into rough weather as the Supreme Court said that it cannot permit the UP Government to go ahead with the celebrations near the World Heritage Monument. | 0 |
Turkey reforms penal code with eye on EU ANKARA: Turkey #39;s bid for membership of the European Union is back on track after the parliament passed far-reaching penal code reforms designed to improve the Muslim nation #39;s human rights record. | 0 |
Three British Muslims join Zarqawi terrorist group in Iraq The revelation by a resistance leader that three British Muslims have joined the terrorist group holding the Liverpool engineer Kenneth Bigley hostage in Iraq has not only shocked most people in Britain but could cause further fracture in the already | 0 |
Treasuries Up as Oil Nears Record Highs (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. Treasury debt prices rose on\Monday as investors figured that oil prices near record highs\could slow the economy and stall monetary tightening. | 2 |
Intervoice's Customers Come Calling Intervoice gives companies a cost-effective way to deal with customer calls. | 2 |
California Calls the Shots California is enacting environmental legislation that could shape the U.S. auto market. | 2 |
Time Warner signs deal to allow Comcast reduce stake in cable unit NEW YORK, September 27 (newratings.com) - Time Warner Inc (TWX.NYS) has reached an agreement with Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) that allows Comcast to reduce its interest in Time Warner Cable. | 2 |
Adobe proposes new format for images Adobe plans to introduce a new format for digital photos tomorrow in an attempt to create an industry public standard to make the archiving and editing process compatible across all types of cameras and software. | 2 |
Hilfiger shares plunge on news of probe NEW YORK -- Clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger Corp. saw its stock unravel as much as 26 percent in Monday trading after the company last week said a federal grand jury is investigating commissions it has paid since 1990. | 2 |
Branson Plans Commercial Space Flights British airline magnate Richard Branson says his company will begin launching paying customers into outer space by 2007 on the world #39;s first commercial space flights. | 3 |
Rooney #39;s ready for Europe - Fergie Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists Wayne Rooney will feel right at home in the Champions League. Rooney: Likely to start from the bench against Fenerbahce. | 1 |
New IPC Athletes #39; Committee members announced The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced here on Monday the list of the newly-elected Athletes #39; Committee. An IPC official at once claimed it a balanced unit and | 1 |
PSU REPORT CARD The quarterback drops back to pass on the first play of the game on enemy turf and floats a picturesque 49-yard bomb to the team #39;s most dangerous player. | 1 |
Pakistan claims crushing blow to Al-Qaeda ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan claimed Monday it had dealt Al-Qaeda a crushing blow after killing a top militant said to have masterminded attempts on President Pervez Musharraf #39;s life and to have arranged the beheading of US reporter Daniel Pearl. | 0 |
RPA condemns killing of Tabara Commanders of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army (RPA) immediately condemned the killing of their leader, Arturo Tabara, chairman of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa | 0 |
IDC raises 2004 PC growth view, but trims 2005 Shipments of personal computers this year will be higher than previously anticipated, boosted by demand from businesses, research firm IDC said Monday. | 2 |
Update 1: VNU Sells Directories Unit for \$2.6B The Dutch publisher VNU, which owns the Nielsen TV ratings service, said Monday it signed a deal to sell its World Directories unit for \$2. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Mexico #39;s Cemex shares tumble on RMC deal Shares of Mexico #39;s Cemex slumped on Monday after the world #39;s No. 3 cement maker agreed to buy Britain #39;s RMC Group in the largest ever acquisition by a Mexican firm. | 2 |
UPDATE 3-Nastech in obesity treatment pact with Merck Shares of Nastech Pharmaceutical Co. Inc. (NSTK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped as much as 43 percent on Monday after it said it formed an alliance with Merck amp; Co. | 2 |
Microsoft Prepared to Strip Its Player Microsoft (Quote, Chart) plans to push for a negotiated settlement of its antitrust dispute with the European Union (EU), even if it means deleting the Windows Media Player (WMP) from its operating system. | 2 |
Adobe offers standard for raw photo formats com September 27, 2004, 8:25 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 2 |
Virgin Enters Digital-Music Fray British entrepreneur Richard Branson is aiming for a piece of the digital-music market, launching Virgin Digital in the US The online Megastore will offer music-download fans about one million songs from which to choose, at 99 cents each. | 3 |
1 Terabyte Optical Storage Disks fenimor writes quot;Physicists at Imperial College London described a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD. | 3 |
HP drops Itanium workstation line It was obvious that the one-two punch of Opteron and then Intel #39;s adoption of x86-64 would spell trouble for Itanium, and now HP, the (for all intents and purposes) originator of IA-64, has axed its Itanium 2 workstation line so that they can focus on | 3 |
Campbell eyes European test Arsenal defender Sol Campbell is desperate to face Rosenberg in the Champions League on Wednesday. Campbell played his first game of the season at Manchester City after recovering from an Achilles injury and is ready for a heavy workload. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Sweden #39;s Stenson holds firm to win Heritage title Sweden #39;s Henrik Stenson ended a three-year barren spell with a four-stroke victory in The Heritage on Sunday to take his second European Tour title. | 1 |
Ground boost for Liverpool Liverpool #39;s plans to build a new 60,000-seater have been approved by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. The Premiership club received planning approval in July but needed Prescott to rubber stamp the project | 1 |
Fatal crash casts pall over Paralympics The festive segment of the Paralympic closing ceremony was cancelled today after seven teenagers were killed in a bus accident on the way to the games. | 0 |
Israelis Kill Seven in West Bank and Gaza Violence An Israeli helicopter blasted a car in Gaza with a missile today, killing one person and seriously wounding a militant leader, hospital officials said, on a day when Israelis killed seven Palestinians. | 0 |
Branson to launch space tourism Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world #39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds. | 3 |
Optical technique promises terabyte disks A novel method of optical data storage could soon be used to hold a terabyte of data on a disk the size of a normal DVD, say researchers at Imperial College London, UK. | 3 |
Heart-health lessons from Clintons case Former President Bill Clintons quadruple bypass surgery two weeks ago sent many middle-aged men rushing to have their hearts checked. | 3 |
Paralympics scrap closing celebrations after crash The school bus, on its way to Athens from central Greece, collided with a truck. Thirty people were injured, 26 of them pupils in their. | 0 |
Voeller quits as boss of Roma Rudi Voeller has confirmed his decision to step down as coach of struggling Serie A giants Roma. Voeller, who took over from Cesare Prandelli in the summer, tendered his resignation immediately after yesterday #39;s 3-1 defeat at nine-man Bologna. | 1 |
#39;Wayne Rooney era begins at Manchester United #39; Manchester United Manager Alex Ferguson, calls him the best English player in the last 30 years, and he #39;s expected to debut for the club tomorrow in its Champions League match at Old Trafford against Turkey #39;s Fenerbahce. | 1 |
Liverpool #39;s stadium plan approved The government has approved Liverpool #39;s plan to build a new stadium next to its current Anfield home. The decision means Liverpool can start building the 60,000-seat project next spring. | 1 |
IDC Raises '04 PC Outlook, Trims Forecast (Reuters) Reuters - Market research firm IDC has raised\its 2004 forecast for global personal computer sales growth to\14.2 percent from 13.5 percent, driven by high commercial\demand, it said on Monday. | 3 |
IBM, HP Chasing Tag Technology (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Technology giants IBM and Hewlett-Packard are injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into radio-frequency identification technology, which aims to advance the tracking of items from ho-hum bar codes to smart tags packed with data. | 3 |
New EarthLink Mac software fights phishing scams (MacCentral) MacCentral - Internet Service Provider (ISP) EarthLink on Monday launched TotalAccess 2005 for Macintosh, a new version of the access software EarthLink offers its subscribers. It works with EarthLink's broadband and dialup services and is available for down... | 3 |
Long-Necked Sea Monster Snuck Up on Victims (Reuters) Reuters - A long-necked sea reptile that lived\millions of years ago in what is now China may have used its\stiff neck to sneak up on unsuspecting prey and suck them in,\scientists said on Friday. | 3 |
Citigroup #39;s Krawcheck to Get No. 2 Post Citigroup Inc. (CN: Quote, Profile, Research) appointed Sallie Krawcheck as its No. 2 executive on Monday in a surprise management shuffle designed to cultivate | 2 |
Branson reaches for the stars Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world #39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA. | 3 |
Freescale Wins 200 Mln Euro Siemens Supply Deal Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has won a long-term contract worth more than 200 million euros (\$246 million) to supply car components to Siemens, the companies said on Monday. | 3 |
Hotmail Hopes To Block Spam with New Fee or Web-based distributed authoring and versioning -- allows Hotmail users to write scripts that use e-mail clients, such as Outlook, to address and send many e-mails quickly. | 3 |
Silva could miss group stage of Champions League due to bad back Arsenal midfielder Gilberto Silva could miss the entire group stage of the Champions League plus a handful of Premier League games due to an ailing back. | 1 |
Entertainment part of Paralympics closing ceremony canceled <b>...</b> The Athens 2004 Organizing Committee (ATHOC) has decided to cancel the planned entertainment part of the closing ceremony due a traffic accident which killed at least seven people early Monday morning. | 1 |
Davies appointed Preston manager Former Motherwell manager Billy Davies was appointed Preston #39;s full-time boss Monday after taking over the club last month on an interim basis. | 1 |
Palestinians bury slain Hamas member Thousands of Palestinians, many shouting for revenge, buried a Hamas leader who was killed in a car bomb assassination blamed on Israel, while Israel on Monday threatened strikes | 0 |
World Squabbles Over UN Security Council Seats THE United Nations #39; quest to reform the Security Council has turned into a public brawl between aspiring powers seeking a permanent seat at the top table and a larger number of jealous neighbours seeking to keep them out. | 0 |
IBM, HP Chasing Tag Technology The tech giants are injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into RFID technology, which aims to advance the tracking of items from ho-hum bar codes to smart tags packed with data. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonp... | 3 |
Sterling loses ground against euro (AFP) AFP - Sterling slipped against the euro in the wake of further evidence that the housing market boom is coming to an end, suggesting that interest rates are close to their peak. | 0 |
Musharraf "very happy" about killing of top Al-Qaeda militant (AFP) AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf welcomed the death of a top Al-Qaeda militant, Amjad Farooqi, said to have masterminded attempts on his life and to have been behind the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl. | 0 |
IDC Raises '04 PC Outlook, Trims Forecast FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Market research firm IDC has raised its 2004 forecast for global personal computer sales growth to 14.2 percent from 13.5 percent, driven by high commercial demand, it said on Monday. | 3 |
Daschle Faces Tough Test in Tight South Dakota Race (Reuters) Reuters - South Dakota truck driver Mark\Monahan says he's had enough of Tom Daschle. So do top\Republicans who have made the U.S. Senate's No. 1 Democrat a\bull's-eye target for removal from the national scene. | 0 |
Court: Ohio Should Have Held Election (AP) AP - A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Gov. Bob Taft should have ordered a special election to fill the vacancy created when James A. Traficant Jr. was kicked out of Congress for a bribery and racketeering conviction. | 0 |
Arab State May Have Helped in Syria Killing -Hamas AL-YARMOUK CAMP, Syria (Reuters) - The militant Palestinian group Hamas said on Monday an Arab country might have helped Israel assassinate one of its leaders in Damascus, an act it called "treason." | 0 |
Syria, at UN, Says Israel Behind U.S. War on Iraq UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria on Monday accused Israel of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war. | 0 |
IDC Raises 2004 PC Outlook, Trims 2005 Forecast FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Market research firm IDC has raised its 2004 forecast for global personal computer sales growth to 14.2 percent from 13.5 percent, driven by high commercial demand, it said on Monday. | 3 |
Fassie CD to boost Mandela fund A greatest hits album by late South African singer Brenda Fassie will help Nelson Mandela's Aids project. | 0 |
Hints About Water Loss in the Martian Atmosphere European Space Agency -- Recent results from the ASPERA-3 instrument on board Mars Express confirm that a very efficient process is at work in the Martian atmosphere which could explain the loss of water. Water is believed to have once been abundant on the Red Planet... | 3 |
The Tragedy of Sudan Fifty thousand are dead, thousands more will die, and more than 1 million have lost their homes. Simon Robinson visits Darfur and witnesses what is happening while the world dithers | 0 |
Adobe offers standard for raw photo formats The company is also offering a free tool to convert photos stored in other formats to the new Digital Negative specification. | 3 |
Saluting the data encryption legacy Security technologist Bruce Schneier explains that while cryptography is one of the most basic tools of computer security, it barely existed as an academic discipline 30 years ago. | 3 |
Russia gets budget version of Windows com September 27, 2004, 5:00 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
Lions get a reality check Detroit head coach Steve Mariucci knew that they had an uphill climb on tap against Philadelphia on Sunday. It would have taken a perfect effort to beat the red hot Eagles at Ford Field. | 1 |
Happy 350th, Taj Mahal AGRA, INDIA - India on Monday began celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, the world-famous example of Indo-Islamic architecture visited by millions of tourists every year. | 0 |
Accident at building site at Dubai airport kills at least eight Arabic television says a wall at a construction site in Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates has collapsed, killing at least eight workers. | 0 |
Country on high birdflu alert following new case The Public Health Ministry yesterday confirmed the second case of human bird flu in a new wave of the deadly disease and announced it was putting all parts of the country on high alert for the epidemic. | 0 |
Cisco switch products target small business Company aggressively addresses smaller businesses with products that reduce the cost and complexity of operating a Cisco network. | 3 |
Hamm Admits He Will Be Shocked if He Loses Gold LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm admitted he would be stunned if he lost the gold medal he was awarded in Athens following a judging error. | 1 |
IronPort updates e-mail security appliances E-mail security systems vendor IronPort Systems Inc. is releasing new versions of its C-Series line of Email Security Appliances, with features that make it easier for administrators to predict new virus outbreaks and manage e-mail security across corporate networks, the comp... | 3 |
Merck gets rights to obesity drug Merck has obtained rights to license an experimental drug to treat obesity that has generated scientific interest because it is based on a hormone used by the body to signal that it has eaten enough. | 2 |
YUKOS should be sold for \$15bn, official says RBC, 27.09.2004, Moscow 15:49:32.YUKOS #39;s assets should be sold for about \$15bn, Ivan Materov, Deputy Minister for Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation, said at an economic conference quot;Russia: investments in the economy of growth quot;. | 2 |
JP Morgan Chase buys stake in hedge fund New York #39;s JP Morgan Chase is buying a majority stake in Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. | 2 |
Vodafone to hand back more cash VODAFONE chief executive Arun Sarin today promised to return more cash to shareholders in the form of bigger dividends or share buybacks. | 2 |
Czech rider Hurikova wins first gold medal at cycling worlds BARDOLINO, Italy (CP) - Tereza Hurikova of the Czech Republic won the junior time trial to take home the first gold medal and rainbow jersey of the world road cycling championships Monday. | 1 |
Atlanta Braves Team Report - September 27 (Sports Network) - The NL East champion Atlanta Braves aim for their fourth straight victory as they start a three-game series versus the New York Mets tonight at Turner Field. | 1 |
Govt Confident UN Seat Won #39;t Spark Diplomatic Row Government has dismissed speculation that declaring its readiness to serve as a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) could spark a diplomatic row with certain African countries. | 0 |
Oil Near \$50 on Supply Fears in Nigeria LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices surged to new record highs on Monday near \$50 for U.S. crude as Nigeria emerged as the latest focus for worries about supply security on world energy markets. | 2 |
Harrah's, Caesars to Sell Four Casinos LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harrah's Entertainment Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HET.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HET.N</A> and Caesars Entertainment Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CZR... | 2 |
Oil Prices Drive Concerns for Airlines LONDON (Reuters) - European airlines hoping for a 2005 industry recovery face new hurdles as record high oil prices threaten to drive up costs and fuel surcharges for passengers, officials said. | 2 |
Oil firms in talks to end Nigerian jobs protest Multinational companies began talks Monday with Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms in a dispute over jobs which shut 90,000 barrels per day of oil production. | 0 |
Will Hedge Funds Take a Dive? Investors are pouring billions of dollars into these unregulated investments, shooting for high returns. Here's what to watch out for | 2 |
Vijay Sings Yet Another Victory Tune For the eighth time this year, Vijay Singh stepped up to the winners podium to accept the hardware following another PGA Tour victory. | 1 |
Hamm Defends Gold Medal in Court Olympic gymnastics champion Paul Hamm has appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne in a bid to retain the gold medal he won in the mens all-round competition in Athens. | 1 |
IDC raises estimate for PC sales Researcher IDC has raised its estimate for the number of PCs that will be sold in 2004, saying it now expects sales of 176.5 million units, the company said Monday. | 2 |
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