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Taurasi named WNBA's top rookie Diana Taurasi has another award to add to her trophy case. The Phoenix Mercury guard was the runaway winner yesterday as the WNBA Rookie of the Year. Taurasi, who led the University of Connecticut to three successive NCAA championships, became the second No. 1 overall draft pick to win t... | 1 |
BU to induct four into Hall Hockey star David Sacco, a two-time first-team All-American and a finalist for the 1993 Hobey Baker Award, leads the list of four former Boston University athletes who will be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame Oct. 9. | 1 |
BC, Maine: Chosen two The Boston College and University of Maine men's hockey teams made up half of last season's Frozen Four, and at least in the pollsters' eyes, they're good bets to make it back there. | 1 |
Not looking down at UMass The game came about because both sides had wants and needs. Boston College wanted a fifth home game; the University of Massachusetts needed to pump revenue into its cash-strapped football program. | 1 |
Staying on top of things Acton-Boxboro's girls' soccer team didn't wait long to set the tone. Less than two minutes into its 3-0 upset of No. 2 Lincoln-Sudbury yesterday, sophomore Natalie Crutchfield controlled a cross from Caitlin Berry and found the back of the net. | 1 |
Mobile graphics look to impress Graphics card giants ATI and Nvidia are working on new chips to improve the quality of mobile displays. | 3 |
Claranet signs latest ISP deal In the latest of a flurry of deals among net providers, Claranet buys the UK wing of US business Via.Net Works. | 3 |
EU Court Overturns Bar on Merger (Reuters) Reuters - The European Commission was wrong to\bar the takeover bid by U.S. telecoms firm WorldCom for rival\Sprint, a European Union court said on Tuesday, annulling the\action taken four years ago. | 2 |
Finance chiefs see brighter world economy, but storm clouds loom (AFP) AFP - World finance chiefs meeting in Washington this week will express satisfaction with a rebounding global economy, but also highlight risks from surging oil prices, turmoil in Iraq and other factors. | 2 |
KarstadtQuelle to sell 77 department stores, waive 2004, 2005 dividends (AFP) AFP - KarstadtQuelle, Europe's leading department store operator, said it planned to sell quot;as quickly as possible quot; 77 of its 181 department stores around the country as part of a massive restructuring programme aimed at pulling it o... | 2 |
Oil Charges to \$50.47 Record SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices soared to a new record above \$50 on Tuesday as uncertainties over Nigerian output heightened worries of a severe supply disruption ahead of winter. | 2 |
EU Court Overturns Bar on Merger LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Commission was wrong to bar the takeover bid by U.S. telecoms firm WorldCom for rival Sprint, a European Union court said on Tuesday, annulling the action taken four years ago. | 2 |
The Human Element: Record and Promote Your Own Music Skip those large music companies that don't care about your music. Doing it yourself is easier and more affordable than ever. | 3 |
Toyota Hopes to Continue #39;Moving Forward #39; Toyota Motor Corp., which has been telling consumers to quot;Get the Feeling quot; in its advertising since 2001, will begin urging them to keep quot;Moving Forward quot; on Tuesday, part of the Japanese automaker #39;s ongoing effort to quot;reinvent quot; itself. | 2 |
New boss rules Nortel marketing Nortel Networks Corp., tarnished by an accounting scandal, has hired a new marketing boss to polish its faded global image. The Brampton-based telecom equipment maker appointed Clent Richardson, 43, as its | 2 |
Olympus Introduces D-590 Zoom Camera and 1GB XD Picture Card Company also announces the Evolt E-300 Digital SLR and three new lenses. | 3 |
Williamson on playoff bubble The veteran relief pitcher was told by manager Terry Francona and pitching coach Dave Wallace prior to last night #39;s game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays stats, schedule | 1 |
Tick, tock: Clock #39;s running on Coughlin #39;s methods I want to understand what it #39;s like to play for Tom Coughlin. So I file this column at 5:30 pm Friday -- 28 hours before deadline -- and the Times Union fines me 63 cents for writing in my home office in boxer | 1 |
The Nation in Brief DENVER - Attorneys for Kobe Bryant have dropped their fight to seal investigative files compiled as part of the rape case against the NBA star but insist prosecutors open all records, including those that may clear their client. | 1 |
Two more US soldiers charged with murder Staff Sgt. Johnny Horne Jr. and Staff Sgt. Cardenas Alban, both from Company C, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment from Fort Riley, Kan, are being charge with murder. | 0 |
Crude oil pushes past \$50 a barrel The price of crude oil surged above \$50 a barrel in after-hours trading yesterday, raising fears of an economic slowdown and higher prices at the gas pump. | 2 |
P amp;O Cuts Ferry Routes, Scraps 1,200 Jobs Shipping giant P amp;O said Tuesday it was scrapping four of its 13 routes across the English Channel, with the loss of about 1,200 jobs. | 2 |
Accounting inquiry raises questions but now it may need a complete remodeling. Formally known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, the federally chartered company | 2 |
Video disks ditch binary storage Why count in binary when you can use hundreds of different digits at once? That #39;s the principle that has allowed British physicists to develop a video disk that stores far more data than has ever been possible before. | 3 |
NASA: Jeanne Caused Little Damage, but Shuttle Work More Behind NASA says Hurricane Jeanne caused minimal damage to the Kennedy Space Center. But the storm put space shuttle workers even further behind in their effort to resume. | 3 |
Sox go wild, clinch date with playoffs: Rout of Devil Rays kicks <b>...</b> After discovering that the magic number formula had played tricks on them, the Red Sox stats, schedule went out last night and defeated the Tampa Bay Devil Rays stats | 1 |
Halos did right thing by taking hard line The Angels are applauded for making a stand, for sending a message, for demonstrating there are consequences when a player refuses to play the game the way it should be played. | 1 |
Pakistan officials tout victory Pakistani officials declared an important victory against al-Qaida yesterday after police shot dead Amjad Farooqi, who was suspected of roles in the execution of Wall | 0 |
WHERE THEY STAND ON The Mideast Second in a series leading up to this weeks presidential debate, which is to focus on foreign policy. The grinding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the foreign policy equivalent of a black hole. | 0 |
World oil prices hit new highs Astana - London, September 28. KAZINFORM quotes BBC source. - World oil prices broke fresh records on Monday, with US light crude poised to break through the \$50 a barrel mark, and Brent crude topping \$46 in London. | 2 |
EU ruling on WorldCom this week BRUSSELS: A European Union court is set to rule this week on a \$120 billion deal MCI-WorldCom made during the height of the go-go years that still resonates today. | 2 |
DNA Map to Help Combat Ivory Poaching The latest weapon to protect dwindling elephant populations from poachers is a genetic map which can trace the origins of ivory, it emerged today. | 3 |
DVDs #39;could hold 100 times more #39; Imperial College London researchers in the UK are developing a new way of storing data that could lead to discs capable of holding 1,000 gigabytes. | 3 |
IBM in Major RFID Expansion IBM (Quote, Chart) said it would spend a quarter of a billion dollars over the next year and a half to grow its RFID (define) business. | 3 |
Major League Baseball News com. The Chicago Cubs opened a one-game lead in the National League Wild Card standings with a 12-5 victory Monday night over the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field. | 1 |
Falluja takes more US hits At least four people have been killed in the latest US onslaught on the Iraqi city of Falluja overnight. Ten others were injured on Tuesday as US warplanes again bombed Falluja, targeting the area of al-Askari | 0 |
Virgin Mobile sees earnings improvement Richard Branson #39;s mobile phone group, which was listed in July, said first-half margins would be well ahead of last year and it expected capital expenditure, as a percentage of revenue, to be below 4pc in the first half and at a similar level for the full | 2 |
Fun for one, fun for all After spending a rotten weekend in the Big Apple, one that left them with frayed nerves and short tempers, the Cubs were in dire need of a laugher upon their return to Wrigley Field. | 1 |
Virgin Enters Online Music Business (TechWeb) TechWeb - Virgin Group Ltd. on Monday launched its online music store, pitting the retailer best known for its music quot;megastores quot; with tech companies such as Apple Computer Inc., which operates the most popular digital music service. | 3 |
DVDs could hold '100 times more' Researchers in London are developing DVDs that could hold 100 times more data than current discs. | 3 |
Palestinians Hunt for Kidnapped CNN Producer (Reuters) Reuters - Palestinian security forces were on\Tuesday searching for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN\television who was kidnapped by gunmen in the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank Raid (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli troops shot dead an\unarmed mentally handicapped Palestinian during a raid on\Tuesday on a West Bank refugee camp on the fourth anniversary\of a Palestinian uprising. | 0 |
Moscow Police Hold Chechens for U.S. Reporter Murder (Reuters) Reuters - Moscow police have arrested two Chechens\they suspect of involvement in the murder of an American\journalist who wrote about Russia's richest people and had also\written a book on war and crime in Chechnya. | 0 |
U.S. Jets Pound Militant Positions in Iraq (AP) AP - Two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy Monday as insurgents kept up their offensive to subdue Iraq's beleaguered security forces. U.S. jets pounded suspected militant positions in a Baghdad slum. | 0 |
Straw shook hand of Zimbabwe's Mugabe 'by mistake' (AFP) AFP - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said he shook hands with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in New York last week quot;by mistake quot; and because it was quot;dark quot;. | 0 |
Boyfriend of slain backpacker relates last conversation (AFP) AFP - A British backpacker slain in Australia called her boyfriend an hour before her death and sounded happy, a court heard. | 0 |
Congresswoman demands probe of alleged coercion by US Army recruiters (AFP) AFP - A member of the US House of Representatives has demanded a full congressional investigation of allegations that the all-volunteer US Army was trying to coerce soldiers at the end of their contracts to re-enlist, threatening them with tour... | 0 |
Palestinians Hunt for Kidnapped CNN Producer GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces were on Tuesday searching for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN television who was kidnapped by gunmen in the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank Raid JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed mentally handicapped Palestinian during a raid on Tuesday on a West Bank refugee camp on the fourth anniversary of a Palestinian uprising. | 0 |
Oil prices breach \$50 US a barrel TORONTO - Crude oil prices hit an all-time high Tuesday, pushing past the psychological barrier of \$50 US per barrel during Asian trading. | 2 |
Stormy Economic Waters for Ferry Firm P amp;Os cutbacks announced today are the result of the waves of troubles that have swamped the ferry industry of late. Some would say the company has done well to weather the storms for as long as it has. | 2 |
P amp;O to Cut 1,200 Jobs to Stem Losses at Ferry Unit (Update2) Peninsular amp; Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the UK #39;s largest ferry and ports operator, will trim its ferries fleet and cut 1,200 jobs, or a fifth of the unit #39;s workforce, to stem losses. | 2 |
Cements Citi power as CFO Citigroup named Sallie Krawcheck, currently head of Smith Barney, as chief financial officer and head of strategy - cementing her position as the most powerful woman on Wall Street. | 2 |
Branson #39;s space dream Sir Richard Branson may want to send people into space, but first he #39;ll have to grasp how to get his Virgin trains to arrive and leave anywhere on time. | 3 |
Virgin group to launch US online music service New York, September 28: British tycoon Richard Branson #39;s Virgin Group has said it was jumping into the market for online music, with a quot;digital megastore quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents. | 3 |
Baseball: Boston clinches fourth playoff berth since 1998 ST. PETERSBURG, United States : Manny Ramirez hit a two run home run in the fifth inning and Johnny Damon added a three run homer as the Boston Red Sox clinched their second straight post-season berth with a 7-3 win over Tampa. | 1 |
Jackson leads Storm #39;s advance STORM 64, LYNX 54: At Seattle - Lauren Jackson scored 18 points and Seattle advanced to the Western Conference finals with a victory over Minnesota on Monday night. | 1 |
Ichiro keeps swinging closer to MLB hit record OAKLANDIchiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners went 1for4 in last night #39;s 6-5 loss to the Oakland Athletics, pulling within five hits of Major League Baseball #39;s single-season record. | 1 |
D-Backs support Unit #39;s Cy Young cause Randy Johnson got the support Monday night that has deserted him and Milwaukee #39;s Ben Sheets throughout this season. Johnson made the most of three runs in the first three innings, raising his record above | 1 |
Two UK troops killed in Iraq ambush Two British soldiers have been killed following an ambush on a convoy near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday morning, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said. | 0 |
N Korea warns on nuclear rods North Korea has said it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon said the weapons were needed for quot;self-defence quot; against quot;US nuclear threat quot;. | 0 |
ENGLAND STARS SET FOR REAL STRUGGLE DAVID BECKHAM and Michael Owen could miss Real Madrid #39;s Champions League clash with Roma tonight as their Bernabeu nightmare goes from bad to worse. | 1 |
SI.com LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- The Los Angeles Dodgers #39; hold on the National League West Division lead got a little more secure thanks to Milton Bradley . | 1 |
AUTO RACING: IRL, Champ raise a lot of questions Surfers Paradise and Mexico -- remaining on the Champ Car circuit this year, is the former bastion of American open-wheel racing finally out of gas? | 1 |
Two British troops killed in Iraq Two British soldiers have been shot dead in an ambush near Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said. They had been trying to rescue the passengers in an armoured Land Rover hit by a rocket propelled grenade. | 0 |
Israeli troops kill Jenin curfew breaker Israeli troops have shot dead a mentally-ill Palestinian in the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian security sources say. The sources say Saleh Ilalou, 47, was hit in the stomach by troops who saw him outside | 0 |
UPDATE: BHP Flags Iron Ore Increase After China Deal PERTH (Dow Jones)--Having secured Chinese iron ore sales worth US\$12.2 billion, Australia-based global miner BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) said Tuesday that a further aggressive | 2 |
P amp;O to axe up to 1,200 jobs P amp;O is to cut up to 1,200 jobs and slash services in a plan to salvage its loss-making ferry business, which has been hit by competition from low-cost airlines. | 2 |
PalmSource unveils smartphone operating system PalmSource has completed development of Palm Cobalt, the first version of its handheld operating system designed specifically for smartphones. | 2 |
St. Helens #39; activity grows Experts say the recent surge of quakes means a steam explosion or eruption is possible. By Lukas Velush. The size and frequency of more than 2,000 tiny earthquakes that have hit Mount St. | 3 |
Garcia Remon receives Perez #39;s vote of confidence Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said new coach Mariano Garcia Remon will be allowed time to make his presence felt and was under no pressure to obtain instant success. | 1 |
Parcells wins veteran clash Bill Parcells #39; Dallas Cowboys beat the Joe Gibbs-coached Washington Redskins 21-18 in a classic encounter on Monday. Terry Glenn scored the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter. | 1 |
Turkish delight for Rooney Manchester - Wayne Rooney, the 18-year-old who broke the Manchester United bank, was set to start repaying Sir Alex Ferguson #39;s 27-million-pound investment against Turkish side Fenerbahce in the Champions League on Tuesday. | 1 |
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank Raid Israeli troops shot dead an unarmed mentally handicapped Palestinian during a raid on Tuesday on a West Bank refugee camp on the fourth anniversary of a Palestinian uprising. | 0 |
Dreamworks Files for IPO with SEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - Computer animation company Dreamworks SKG has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a \$650 million initial public offering, applying to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DWA." | 2 |
Booming Ireland sees population swell to 130-year high (Chicago Tribune) Chicago Tribune - Ireland's population has climbed above the 4 million mark for the first time since the 19th Century, when famine and widespread economic hardship triggered a vast wave of immigration to the United States. | 0 |
August home sales rise WASHINGTON #151; Sales of new homes rose by 9.4 percent in August, the Commerce Department said yesterday, as mortgage interest rates remained at low enough levels to continue enticing buyers worried about future rate increases. | 2 |
Time Warner, Comcast eye joint bid for Adelphia Time Warner Inc., the world #146;s largest media company, and Comcast Corp. said they are considering making a joint bid for bankrupt cable-television operator Adelphia Communications Corp. | 2 |
Crude prices set N.Y. record WASHINGTON #151; Oil prices charged toward \$50 a barrel yesterday, and gasoline prices surged to \$1.92 a gallon last week, as petroleum output in the Gulf of Mexico returns at a slower-than-expected rate after Hurricane Ivan, and geopolitical unrest keeps traders on edge. | 2 |
Airline says it may liquidate ALEXANDRIA, Va. #151; US Airways Group Inc. warned in a bankruptcy court filing that it may have to liquidate by February if a judge does not impose a temporary 23 percent pay cut on its union workers. | 2 |
Airlines expected to lose \$4 billion MONTREAL -- Despite a jump of 19 per cent in world air traffic so far this year, airlines are expected to lose as much as \$4 billion US in 2004 due to high fuel costs, says the International Air Transport Association. | 2 |
EC #39;supports special interests of rivals #39; - Microsoft Microsoft will argue that the market for media players is much more varied than the European Commission claims when the two meet in court at the end of the week. | 2 |
Tick for special offers/news from GQ.COM and partners Virgin Airlines has outclassed its counterparts once again by announcing that, by 2006, passengers will be able to travel to space aboard the Virgin Galactic spaceship. | 3 |
St. Helens Quakes Could Lead To #39;Hazardous Event #39; SEATTLE - Seismologists believe there #39;s an increased likelihood of a quot;hazardous event quot; at Mount St. Helens due to recent changes in the mountain #39;s seismic activity. | 3 |
GAO Says Offshoring Could Stymie Tech Job Growth SEPTEMBER 27, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A new government report indicates that offshore outsourcing could hurt IT employment growth over the next decade. | 3 |
Security leaders get bigger Consolidation in the security sector continued last week as three firms planned a merger to form a new security giant offering global services. | 3 |
We are ready for United - Rustu Fenerbahce are adamant they can blunt Manchester United #39;s attacking threat in the Champions League clash on Tuesday night. Wayne Rooney is likely to link up with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Alan Smith at some | 1 |
Jordanian King Says Iraqi Elections Impossible Now 28 September 2004 -- Jordanian King Abdullah II said in an interview today that elections in Iraq are quot;impossible quot; amid the continuing insecurity. | 0 |
Gene test to track illegal ivory A genetic test that can determine the origin of ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products. | 3 |
Dolly scientists' human clone bid The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep apply to use cloned human embryos to study motor neurone disease. | 3 |
Bankers fight Enron extradition Three former NatWest bankers are due in a UK court to face an extradition hearing in connection with the collapsed energy giant Enron. | 0 |
O'Brien to Take Over for Leno in 5 Years NEW YORK - Jay Leno's takeover as host of NBC's "Tonight" show in 1992 was fraught with drama and bad feelings, but he's assured the next transition will be as smooth as his nightly sign-off: "Stay tuned for Conan." The comedian and NBC on Monday chose the 50th anniversary of ... | 0 |
Crude Oil Prices Breaches \$50 Per Barrel SINGAPORE - Crude oil topped \$50 per barrel during Asian trading on Tuesday, pushing past the psychological milestone for the first time then surging further to new record levels likely to unsettle oil-consuming nations. Traders bid oil to new highs in after-hours trading o... | 0 |
Palestinian Police Search for CNN Producer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian police were searching Tuesday for an Israeli Arab producer for the TV network CNN kidnapped at gunpoint on a busy Gaza City street, and the network joined journalists' associations in demanding his immediate release. In the West Bank, tro... | 0 |
Flood of New Voters Signing Up New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2... | 0 |
Citigroup Job Changes May Be Dress Rehearsal for Top Post in <b>...</b> Citigroup said yesterday that Sallie L. Krawcheck, the former equity analyst recruited to the bank to clean up its research department, would become its chief financial officer. | 2 |
AT amp;T Release Ogo AT amp;T have finally released their Ogo handset. The US\$130 (106) device is designed to do one thing well - messaging. The Ogo allows subscribers to send emails, instant messages and text messages, and that #39;s | 3 |
Windows XP: to Russia with Love Russia is the fourth nation to participate in Microsoft Corp #39;s Windows XP Starter Edition pilot program, for first-time PC users in developing technology markets. | 3 |
A #39;s rally in ninth to stay on top Bobby Crosby was confident he could get the job done as he approached the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning on Monday night. | 1 |
Sharapova wins easily in first round of Korea Open Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat Emmanuelle Gagliardi 6-1, 6-3 in the first round of the Hansol Korea Open on Tuesday. In other first-round matches, American Abigail Spears defeated Lenka Nemeckov, 6 | 1 |
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