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Militant Youths Shut Three Oil Flowstations Crude oil production in the country has again been disrupted after militant youths, numbering about 200, stormed and forcefully shut down three flowstations in the swamp of Rivers State. | 0 |
Edwards Appeals to Women on Terror Issue (AP) AP - Vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday sought to blunt growing support for President Bush among women voters and others concerned about national security by campaigning with a Sept. 11 widow in two states that suffered losses in the terrorist attacks. | 0 |
Traditional treatments 'do work' Scientific tests on a range of traditional remedies have shown they have "real benefits", researchers say. | 0 |
Rocco DiSpirito Is Out at Union Pacific Union Pacific, once the jewel in Rocco DiSpirito's crown, will close at the end of the year. | 0 |
Mets Beat Braves 2-1 to Open Twinbill ATLANTA - Gerald Williams and Eric Valent hit solo home runs to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday. Williams broke a scoreless tie in the third with his fourth home run, a deep drive to center off Paul Byrd... | 0 |
White House Opposes Sections of 9/11 Bill WASHINGTON - The White House came out Tuesday against parts of a Senate intelligence reorganization bill, saying they would create "a cumbersome new bureaucracy" for coordinating the activities of 15 spy agencies under a national intelligence director. Meanwhile, one of the ... | 0 |
Delta To Cut Wages, CEO Forgoes Pay Delta Air Lines is to cut wages by 10 percent and its chief executive will go unpaid for the rest of the year, but it still warned of bankruptcy within weeks unless more cuts are made. | 2 |
Jury in Klesch Litigation Returns Verdict in Favor of Liberty <b>...</b> ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberty Media Corporation announced that the jury in Klesch amp; Company Ltd. | 2 |
Yankees' El Duque Has Tired Shoulder (AP) AP - A week before the playoffs begin, the New York Yankees are worried about the health of another starting pitcher. This time, it's Orlando Hernandez. | 1 |
New Toshiba Notebooks Use Intel Desktop Chips Toshiba #39;s new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks are further evidence that US consumers have yet to embrace the mobility offered by Intel #39;s newer mobile processors. | 3 |
The Worst Things About Tokyo 1. The toilets. What is that thing, you say? Well, its not a urinal, but rather what is known in English as a squat-toilet. It might seem hard to believe, but many people in Japan prefer using these floor holes to a standard Western toilet. | 3 |
Giants #39; Hermanson suspended NEW YORK (Ticker) - The San Francisco Giants may have to continue their quest for the postseason without their closer. Major League Baseball on Tuesday suspended righthander Dustin Hermanson three games and | 1 |
Hearing Set in Bonds Baseball Lawsuit (AP) AP - A court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in the dispute over who is the rightful owner of the ball Barry Bonds hit for his 700th home run. | 1 |
Fan Sues for Barry Bonds' 700th Home Run Ball SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As the often-quoted Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra might say: "It seems like deja vu all over again." | 1 |
Yen Near 6-Week Low Vs Dollar TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen was cornered near a six-week low against the dollar on Wednesday as record-high oil prices dampened investors' outlook on the Japanese economy ahead of the Bank of Japan's survey on business sentiment. | 2 |
Development: Donor Neglect Deadly - Oxfam The world #39;s poorer nations are paying a heavy price in human lives for the failure of the rich to provide the resources they promised to fight global hunger and poverty, humanitarian agency Oxfam said in a report released Sunday. | 0 |
UPDATE 2-Solectron net loss narrows on strong revenue Contract electronics manufacturer Solectron Corp. on Tuesday posted a narrower quarterly loss, helped by a 23 percent rise in revenue but issued a forecast at the low end | 2 |
Microsoft unveils simplified version of WindowsXP in Asia World #39;s leading software developer Microsoft has announced that it will promote its cheaper and simplified version of WindowsXP in Russia and soon launch a series of marketing | 3 |
Notes: Rain washes out game Bag it. The Blue Jays and Orioles got rained out on Tuesday night, bowing to nature #39;s demands. The game will be made up on Wednesday as part of a doubleheader, starting at 3:05 pm ET. | 1 |
Italian women arrive home from Iraq after hostage ordeal ROME : Two female Italian aid workers arrived back in Rome after being released from a three-week hostage ordeal in Iraq, sparking scenes of joy at their homes and relief among world leaders. | 0 |
City sees overhaul as precursor to sale, leaving group focused on <b>...</b> P amp;O staked its immediate future as a ferry operator on the burgeoning freight market yesterday as it blamed the death of the booze cruise for the need to axe one-fifth of its workforce. | 2 |
Former NatWest bankers fear #39;unfair trial #39; if extradited to US By James Daley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. Three former NatWest bankers who are fighting extradition to the US over their alleged involvement in a 4m fraud linked to the collapse of Enron | 2 |
Older People Turn to Internet to Find Love (AP) AP - Sensuous, intellectual woman, 5'3, adventurous, pretty and open, seeks a life partner who is sexy, highly intelligent and cheerful. How old is this woman? In her early 60s. That's the profile Mary Bellis Waller, now 64, posted on two Internet dating sites during her ... | 3 |
Hackers Target Microsoft's JPEG Flaw (AP) AP - In a harbinger of security threats to come, hackers have exploited a newly announced flaw in Microsoft Corp. programs and begun circulating malicious code hidden in images that use the popular JPEG format. | 3 |
Patent Concerns Unlikely To Nix Munich Linux Plan MonkeyDev writes quot;Yahoo is reporting that Munich is ready to move forward with plans to #39;abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux. | 3 |
Future DVDs could hold 1TB of data Future DVDs could hold about one hundred times the capacity that current discs can hold. That would mean about 472 hours of film on one disc the size of a current DVD disc. | 3 |
EVD aims expansion, partnership amid challenges The video compact disc (VCD) player was a spectacular breakthrough in the history of China #39;s electronics industry. The device, first invented by the Chinese firm Wanyan Electronics | 3 |
PalmSource Introduces Latest Version Of Palm OS PalmSource Inc. on Tuesday launched the latest version of its operating system, which targets manufacturers of the increasing number of advanced cellular phones in the market. | 3 |
PSP Pricing Announced Grey Ninja writes quot;GC Advanced has reported from the Tokyo Game Show that the PSP will retail for \$349.99. Coupled with the previously announced price of the Nintendo DS at \$149. | 3 |
Toshiba Unveils New Flat-Panel SED TV (AP) AP - Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a flat-panel TV that uses a new technology developed jointly by the Japanese electronics maker and the Japanese camera company Canon. | 3 |
Argentinian pupil shoots four dead in classroom A high school pupil wielding a 9mm pistol shot dead four classmates and wounded five more yesterday in Argentina #39;s worst school rampage. | 0 |
Cendant Near Deal to Buy Orbitz -Source (Reuters) Reuters - Travel and real estate heavyweight\Cendant Corp. is nearing a deal to buy online travel\site Orbitz Inc. , which is controlled by the top five\U.S. airlines, for about #36;1.2 billion in cash, a source close\to the talks said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Schwarzenegger Signs California Anti-Spyware Bill (Reuters) Reuters - California Gov. Arnold\Schwarzenegger signed an anti-spyware bill on Tuesday banning\unauthorized installation of deceptive software that hides in\personal computers and secretly monitors user activity. | 3 |
North Korea #39;s nuclear weapons program The Bush administration responded calmly Tuesday to North Korean claims it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. | 0 |
BAE Systems to Acquire Alphatech for #36;88M (AP) AP - British defense contractor BAE Systems PLC said Tuesday that its U.S. subsidiary will acquire software maker Alphatech Inc. for #36;88 million cash. | 3 |
IBM Releases DB2 Information Integrator (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - The company says "Masala" includes search technology that will make it "dramatically easier to access information of all different kinds" in a unified search, including e-mail files, text documents, video and audio clips. | 3 |
Two Apes Arrive at Education Center (AP) AP - Warning lights flashed atop four police cars as the caravan wound its way up the driveway in a procession fit for a presidential candidate. At long last, Azy and Indah had arrived. They even flew through a hurricane to get here. | 3 |
Vertical solutions take hold in CRM (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - As the enterprise increasingly looks for vertical solutions from its CRM vendors, Kana Software with an on-premise solution and Entellium with a hosted solution, will both announce this week industry-specific best practice applications for customer service and... | 3 |
First commercial passenger flights into space? A British multimillionaire, Richard Branson, has just signed a substantial contract with the makers of SpaceShipOne for the development and construction of passenger-carrying space vehicles. | 3 |
Extradition of ex-NatWest bankers sets #39;frightening #39; precedent The extradition of three former NatWest bankers, being sought by US prosecutors from the Enron Task Force, would have quot;frightening consequences quot; for the British legal system, a court heard yesterday. | 2 |
Euro Disney debt plan agreement Euro Disney, the French theme park operator, said yesterday it had won agreement from all its creditors on a modified debt restructuring plan, including a 250m (170m) capital increase, designed to haul it back from the brink of bankruptcy. | 2 |
McDonald #39;s CEO gets new chemotherapy McDonald #39;s Corp. Chief Executive Officer Charlie Bell, who underwent colorectal cancer surgery in May, said Tuesday he was back in the hospital for continued treatment. | 2 |
CD #39;s future is upbeat in download decade Reports of the death of CDs have been greatly exaggerated, according to research published yesterday which said legally downloaded music would represent only a fraction of sales in five years #39; time. | 3 |
Intel introduces new mobile chip Intel Corp., the world #39;s largest chip maker, on Tuesday introduced a powerful mobile chip running at 3.33 GHz for notebook computers. | 3 |
Greece tackles road safety after crash Greece announced stringent measures to improve safety on its roads yesterday as the country mourned seven schoolchildren killed in a traffic accident on their way to the Paralympics. | 1 |
Marlins 5, Expos 2 Jeff Conine homered and Mike Lowell drove in two runs to lead the Florida Marlins over Montreal 5-2 on Tuesday night in what might prove to be the Expos #39; second-to-last game at Olympic Stadium. | 1 |
Auburn wants repeat of last year #39;s play vs. Vols After two ugly losses and two lightweight wins, the Auburn Tigers finally had a chance to prove their mettle against Tennessee last season. | 1 |
Tigers 6, White Sox 4 Eric Munson hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 6-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night. | 1 |
2 Aid Workers Are Freed After 3 Weeks in Captivity Two Italian aid workers kidnapped 21 days ago in an audacious daylight raid were freed Tuesday, the prime minister of Italy announced. | 0 |
Second bomb threat on Greek plane A Greek passenger jet bound for New York made an emergency landing in Ireland yesterday after a warning that a bomb was about to explode on board. | 0 |
Schwarzenegger Signs California Anti-Spyware Bill SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an anti-spyware bill on Tuesday banning unauthorized installation of deceptive software that hides in personal computers and secretly monitors user activity. | 3 |
Hurdles Remain for U.S. Voters Living Overseas Civilians and soldiers living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted. | 0 |
Delta CEO declines pay ATLANTA Delta Air Lines Inc. #39;s chief executive said yesterday he is declining his six-figure salary for the rest of the year as he detailed a 10 percent pay cut that will affect senior officials, administrative staff and ticket and gate agents. | 2 |
Neiman Marcus book features pricey gifts Jeff Wasson thumbed the steel visor higher on his forehead so he could see out from under his suit of armor. quot;It would be a great gift for the executive who has everything, quot; Wasson said of the shiny suit, which weighs 65 pounds. | 2 |
AT amp;T Unveils Ogo, Text-Only Wireless Device Just after unveiling a wireless network upgrade, AT amp;T Wireless has introduced a wireless messaging device called Ogo, which will provide instant messaging and e-mail from AOL, MSN and Yahoo in addition to direct text messaging. | 3 |
HP sinks utility project, lays off some workers Hewlett-Packard is getting rid of one of its high-profile utility computing projects, although much of the technology will live on in other initiatives. | 3 |
Rooney scores hat trick in debut for Manchester United In his debut for Manchester United on Tuesday, the 18-year-old England striker scored three goals as United thrashed Turkey #39;s Fenerbahce 6-2 in the second rotation of the Champions League. | 1 |
Cendant Is Close to Acquiring Orbitz for \$1.1 Billion The deal would end a daring experiment by the nation's airlines, which created Orbitz as a competitor to Expedia and online ticketing sites like it. | 2 |
A Bad August Worsens Airline Financial Woes Last month was awful for the airlines because of factors like weather and the fact that kids go back to school earlier than they used to. | 2 |
School Cellphone Bans Topple (You Can't Suspend Everyone) Rather than banning the phones outright, schools are capitulating to demands of parents and market realities, and allowing students to carry cellphones in school. | 3 |
For the Splendidly Dressed Man, Web Sites to Match About a half-dozen Web sites have emerged in the past few years to cater to interests of those immersed in the world of classical men's clothing. | 3 |
Microsoft to sell Windows XP sta Microsoft has announced that it is planning to distribute the low cost stripped down version of Windows XP in Russia, sources say. | 3 |
-Posted by dan.farber 7:24 pm (PDT) One day Hewlett-Packards Utility Data Center (UDC) is proof of the companys leadership in the emerging on demand, adaptive computing, pay-as-you-go world. | 3 |
Kornheiser Not that this is a Bandwagon column, mind you, because it most emphatically is not. Not after the Redskins lost to the geriatric Cowboys early Tuesday morning, at an hour when Vinny Testaverde and Eddie George | 1 |
Spain vs US in Seville for Davis Cup title Spain will take on the United States for the Davis Cup champion in Southern Spain #39;s Seville City on December 3-5, China Radio International reported Wednesday. | 1 |
Plans in place to close up shop in Montreal, open up in Washington The Expos president has lists prepared and plans in place to close up shop in Montreal and rebuild the franchise in Washington. He #39;ll begin to act once Major League Baseball confirms the club #39;s move, something which could happen as soon as Thurs... | 1 |
Toshiba, M'shita LCD Venture to Make Big TV Panels (Reuters) Reuters - An LCD joint venture between Toshiba\Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Wednesday\it would start making large TV displays early next year,\entering a rapidly expanding but crowded market. | 3 |
WHO calms fears over human-to-human bird flu The World Health Organization on Tuesday downplayed concerns over human-to-human transmission of bird flu, after authorities in Thailand confirmed that a woman who died of the virus probably contracted it from her daughter. | 0 |
CNN journalist has been released Riad Ali, who is an Israeli Arab, was handed over to Palestinian police today, nearly 24 hours after he was abducted at gunpoint from a CNN van. | 0 |
Family Crisis in Divided Sudan His gut was twisted into a knot, his head pounding, his leg searing in pain from a gunshot wound. Ibrahim Mohamed Doud, a village elder in an African tribe, remembers the day an | 0 |
IBM Claims Computer Speed Title (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn., wresting the title from a system in Japan. | 3 |
No Escape From E-Mail BlackBerrys, sometimes referred to as CrackBerrys among addicted adherents, make e-mail portable, available anytime and almost anywhere. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
IBM Claims Computer Speed Title IBM Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it has built the world's fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn., wresting the title from a system in Japan.<BR>\<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The W... | 3 |
Celera, Genentech Sign Cancer Drug Deal Celera Genomics Group of Rockville announced an agreement Tuesday to provide potential targets for cancer drugs to biotech giant Genentech Inc.\<BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B>&l... | 3 |
Yen Near 6-Week Low Vs Dollar (Reuters) Reuters - The yen was cornered near a six-week low\against the dollar on Wednesday as record-high oil prices\dampened investors' outlook on the Japanese economy ahead of\the Bank of Japan's survey on business sentiment. | 2 |
Tokyo Stocks Turn Lower on Oil Worries (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo's Nikkei fell 0.19 percent by\midday on Wednesday, erasing initial gains and extending losses\into a ninth straight day as worry over higher oil prices and\domestic economic uncertainty hit exporters and tech stocks. | 2 |
Hoenig: High Oil Will Not Derail Economy (Reuters) Reuters - High oil prices will probably\brake U.S. growth but will not derail the economy provided\there is not another sharp spike upwards, a top Federal Reserve\policymaker said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Toshiba, M'shita LCD Venture to Make Big TV Panels TOKYO (Reuters) - An LCD joint venture between Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said on Wednesday it would start making large TV displays early next year, entering a rapidly expanding but crowded market. | 3 |
Cendant Near Deal to Buy Orbitz -Source PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Travel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CD.N</A> is nearing a deal to buy online travel site Orbitz Inc. <A HREF="http://www... | 2 |
Oil Continues Climb Crude oil prices jumped beyond \$50 a barrel Tuesday, renewing concerns that sustained high energy costs will weaken the economy. | 2 |
Impact May Be Small As Fannie, Freddie Regroup Mortgage securities traders and strategists say if Fannie Mae does reduce the number of mortgages it buys, it could lead to a small, short-term increase in mortgage interest rates paid by consumers, probably no more than 0.1 percent. | 2 |
Australia #39;s foreign exchange market booms The Reserve Bank says there has been a sharp increase in activity on Australia #39;s foreign exchange markets over the past three years. | 2 |
SEC Inspections Yield More Referrals Risk-assessment techniques are yielding results at the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the number of enforcement referrals from SEC inspectors is up significantly in the last six months, senior SEC officials said. | 2 |
Baseball Eluded Va. Despite Tax Giveaway Proposal After a decade of lobbying, promise making and plan changing, the executives and officials trying to bring a Major League Baseball team to Virginia believed they had one last chance. | 1 |
Ahlers to retire as head of Marshall Field #39;s Linda Ahlers, president of Marshall Field #39;s, will retire effective Dec. 31, the store chain #39;s owner May Department Stores Co. | 2 |
Virgin Galactic launches space tourism Richard Branson, famed entrepreneur from Great Britain, has announced that he will launch the first passenger space service in 2007. | 3 |
Italian hostages released There was widespread rejoicing on Tuesday night in Italy at the release of two Italian female aid workers who had been held hostage in Iraq. | 0 |
Britain #39;s Blair refuses to apologize for Iraq British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted evidence about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction was wrong, but insists it was the correct decision to remove Saddam Hussein. | 0 |
St. Helens Blast Said Possible Within Days (AP) AP - A small explosion of rocks, ash and steam could occur within the next few days within the crater of Mount St. Helens, where earthquake activity has been steadily building for nearly a week, scientists said Tuesday. | 3 |
Israeli Army Kills Gunman in Gaza Raid-Medics (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian\gunman and wounded three early on Wednesday in a raid on\militant strongholds in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian\medics and witnesses said. | 0 |
Blair Defends War, Urges Labour to Unite (AP) AP - Prime Minister Tony Blair, skirting a direct apology, acknowledged to his Labour Party Tuesday that intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq was wrong, but insisted the world was safer with Saddam Hussein in prison. | 0 |
U.S. Returns Stolen Mexican Altarpiece (AP) AP - The U.S. ambassador formally returned a 300-year-old wooden altarpiece to Mexico on Tuesday that thieves had tried to sell in the United States. | 0 |
Dole, Gore Participate in Panel Discussion (AP) AP - Bob Dole and Al Gore, both former presidential candidates themselves, offered their thoughts Tuesday on the upcoming debate. | 0 |
Veterans for Kerry Barred From Bush Rally (AP) AP - About 30 Oregon veterans who support Democrat John Kerry for president were rebuffed Tuesday when they showed up at a Republican rally in hopes of delivering a letter to first lady Laura Bush criticizing the war in Iraq. | 0 |
A Family Crisis in Divided Sudan The experience of Ibrahim Mohamed Doud and his two wives, one African and one Arab, illustrates the tangled ethnicity of Darfur, the scene of the violent displacement of 1.5 million people. | 0 |
Ferrari Outsources F1 Engine Design Work (AP) AP - India's top software exporter Tata Consultancy Services announced Monday it has won a multimillion dollar deal with Italian sports car maker Ferrari to design Formula 1 engines. | 3 |
Tourist Hostages Freed from Inca Temple in Peru <p></p><p> By Robin Emmott</p><p> LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian special forces on Tuesdayfreed 20 foreign tourists who were briefly taken hostage byprotesting coca growers in an Inca temple in the southern cityof Cuzco, police said.</p&g... | 0 |
IBM Claims Computer Speed Title IBM Corp. plans to announce today that it has built the world #39;s fastest supercomputer at one of its facilities in Rochester, Minn. | 3 |
HP learns the uselessness of utility HP is throwing in the towel and abandoning its Utility Data Center, just a month shy of its third birthday. The UDC offered self-adapting, self-healing, policy-driven automated cross-platform services: install | 3 |
Hurricane Jeanne stops hot Singh Hurrican Jeanne has pervented world number one golfer Vijay Singh from attending this week #39;s WGC tournament in Ireland. Vijay Singh has withdrawn from this week #39;s WGC-American | 1 |
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