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Test of Time In work designed to halt the trade of illegal ivory, Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington and his colleagues have begun collecting elephant DNA from tissue sample and from dung. | 3 |
Arsenal, Facing Rosenborg in Europe, Loses Gilberto (Update1) Arsenal midfielder Gilberto Silva will miss the team #39;s second Champions League group game against Norwegian champion Rosenborg on Wednesday with a back injury, ruling him out for at least a month. | 1 |
Monaco strike early against Depor Mohammed Kallon and Javier Saviola scored a goal each as Monaco beat Deportivo La Coruna 2-0 in Group A of the Champions League. Kallon and Saviola scored inside the first 10 minutes, but there was not to | 1 |
IRURETA HITS OUT AT REFEREE Deportivo La Coruna coach Javier Irureta was fuming at referee Stefano Farina after his side slipped to a 2-0 defeat in Monaco on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Blair denies he led Britain to war with false justification Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong. | 0 |
Video Cameras at Movies Would Be Crime (AP) AP - Using video cameras to record films in movie theaters would become a federal crime punishable by up to six years in prison under a bill passed Tuesday by the House. | 3 |
Web board craigslist makes a name for itself (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Craigslist is a giant Internet bulletin board where people buy and sell their stuff, trade humor and political wisdom, look for dates, seek home repair advice, share their poetry and often just rant. Some call the site a public forum. Others cal... | 3 |
Fannie Mae undergoes ex-employee testimony Fannie Mae, the US largest government-ruled mortgage lender, sees the continuation of the investigation on possible accounting violations and possible next weeks testimony of its former employee at a Congressional hearing. | 2 |
Deutsche Post Sees a Big DHL US Loss Germany #39;s Deutsche Post AG said losses at its US express and logistics business will be 200 million euros (\$246.1 million) greater than expected this year, sending its shares down over 4 percent. | 2 |
IBM Claims Fastest-Computer Title A US contender appears poised to recapture the supercomputer speed title from the Japanese world champion, Wednesday #39;s Wall Street Journal reported. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Euro Disney deal brings relief but challenges loom Euro Disney (EDLP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) shares leapt on Wednesday after the French theme park operator clinched a long-awaited deal to restructure its | 2 |
House of Fraser losses narrow House of Fraser has posted narrower first-half losses on improved gross margins and announced a new partnership deal with Barclaycard to manage its customer account cards. | 2 |
Whitehall settles federal investigation for \$13 million CHICAGO Whitehall Jewellers Incorporated has agreed to pay 13 (m) million dollars to settle a lawsuit and a federal investigation into fraud charges. | 2 |
Computer Associates to Cut Jobs by 5 Pct. (Reuters) Reuters - Software maker Computer Associates\ on Wednesday said it would cut 800 jobs, or 5 percent of\its work force, to pare costs amid stiff competition in\software and services. | 3 |
IBM supercomputer may be the world's fastest (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - IBM is expected to announce today that it has built a supercomputer that could qualify as the world's fastest machine. | 3 |
Microsoft unveils Windows XPSE in Hindi The Windows XP Starter Edition (XPSE) is a low-cost, version of Windows XP, meant for emerging markets. NEW DELHI: Microsoft has announced the upcoming release of Windows XP Starter Edition (XPSE), a new version of Windows XP for emerging markets. | 3 |
Asteroid to Come Closest to Earth Since 12th Century, NASA Says Toutatis, a mountain-sized asteroid, will today come the closest to the Earth since at least the 12th century, giving scientists an opportunity to gather data about it, NASA said on its Web site. | 3 |
Are Sun and Microsoft forming an unholy alliance? The Internet went all abuzz last week when a report by Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer posited that Microsoft was keeping open its legal options against licensees of OpenOffice. | 3 |
MMS to replace texts as mobile money spinner Multimedia messaging service (MMS) is rapidly taking over from short messaging service (SMS), but operators must undertake major infrastructure upgrades to cope with the technology #39;s increased traffic demands or risk alienating customers with poor service | 3 |
McNair let out of hospital Titans QB Steve McNair was released from a Nashville hospital after a two-night stay for treatment of a bruised sternum. McNair was injured during the fourth quarter of the Titans #39; 15-12 loss to Jacksonville on Sunday. | 1 |
No sign of revival for struggling Deportivo Bad luck and bad refereeing were the explanations offered by an out-of-form Deportivo Coruna for Tuesday #39;s 2-0 defeat at Monaco in the Champions League. | 1 |
Around the AL RHP Pedro Astacio was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at a batter against the Yankees. | 1 |
Italian hostages #39; release gives hope to Bigley family The brother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley today said he had been encouraged by the release yesterday of the two Italian aid workers. | 0 |
Another 1.6 inches of snow dusts valley BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents opened fire on a busload of laborers traveling toward a US military base in Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 of them and capping a week of violence that left at least 80 Iraqis and 20 US soldiers dead. | 0 |
Border surveillance plan unveiled The UK government will store electronic records of people entering the UK in effort to tighten border control. | 3 |
Israel Kills 3 Palestinians in Big Gaza Incursion (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli forces killed three\Palestinians, including two teenagers, on Wednesday after\storming into the northern Gaza Strip for the third time in as\many months to quell Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. | 0 |
Saudi extra barrels wrong kind of crude LONDON - The worlds oil refiners are unimpressed by Saudi Arabias boost to production capacity that would only swell supplies of sour, high sulphur crude while they hanker for sweet oil. | 2 |
Computer Associates to Cut Workforce -WSJ Computer Associates International Inc. (CA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will lay off about 5 percent of its work force in an attempt to cut costs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. | 2 |
Bank of America Begins Deployment of Cisco VoIP Phones CHARLOTTE - Bank of America is deploying some 180,000 Cisco Internet Protocol-based telephones across its 5,800 branches and enterprise centers in a major deployment of Voice over IP technology from Cisco. | 3 |
Asteroid (4179) Toutatis to Pass Closely By Earth on Wednesday <b>...</b> Toutatis, a potato-shaped asteroid about 4.6 km (3 miles) in its longest extent, will pass within 1,550,000 km (963,000 miles) of the Earth #39;s center on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - reaching its closest approach at 13:35:28 GMT ... | 3 |
MLB: Montreal Expos to Relocate to Washington Major League Baseball has decided to relocate the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC The widely expected announcement is to be made later Wednesday, by city officials. | 1 |
Kallon #39;s fine form continues Mohammed Kallon #39;s fine start to his Monaco career continued on Tuesday when the Sierra Leonean scored his first ever Champions League goal. | 1 |
Mitsubishi Shareholders Demand Changes (AP) AP - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. shareholders approved a move Wednesday enabling the scandal-plagued Japanese automaker to raise cash through a share offering, but demanded the company clean up its image and improve its product offerings to turn its lagging business around. | 0 |
Pitchers Astacio, Halsey each suspended three games NEW YORK - Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Astacio and New York Yankees pitcher Brad Halsey were each suspended Tuesday for three games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball after being ejected from Boston #39;s 11-4 win over the weekend. | 1 |
Shirking the blame? IT had been a long time coming, but Tony Blair has finally conceded that the evidence about Iraqs weapons of mass destruction was wrong, and he has apologised, to an extent. | 0 |
Tamil Tiger rebel leaders to travel to Europe Tamil Tiger rebel leaders were set to travel to Europe for talks on Sri Lanka #39;s stalled peace process, as fears that the island nation could slide back into war fester, a senior guerrilla official said. | 0 |
Hackers Target Microsoft's JPEG Flaw 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 |
Interceptor System Set, But Doubts Remain What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than \$100 billion will work. | 3 |
NATO Awards Missile Work To Lockheed An international group led by Lockheed Martin Corp. received a \$3 billion contract yesterday to develop a program that will eventually replace the Patriot missile system. | 3 |
Defense Department Tests Blimp Pentagon police said the Defense Department is testing a security blimp -- equipped with surveillance cameras. The white blimp has been spotted this morning over the Pentagon and the Capitol building. | 3 |
Video Cameras at Movies Would Be Crime Using video cameras to record films in movie theaters would become a federal crime punishable by up to six years in prison under a bill passed Tuesday by the House. | 3 |
Older People Turn to Internet to Find Love 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 search for... | 3 |
Pitcairn Women Back Their Men Ahead of Sex Trial SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of women on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific are standing by their men, who face underage sex charges, saying having sex at age 12 is a tradition dating back to 18th century mutineers who settled on the island. | 0 |
Intel Tops Government List of Best Commuter Benefits <p>\</p><p> By Tom Doggett</p><p> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intel, Fannie Mae and Cisco Systems\top the U.S. government's list of FORTUNE 500 companies that\have the best commuting benefits for their employees.</p> | 3 |
Retooled Varsity Group Set to Return to Nasdaq Shares of Varsity Group Inc., the online bookseller that rose to prominence during the e-commerce boom only to stumble badly, will return to trading on the Nasdaq National Market this morning. | 3 |
Corvis Will Change Name To Broadwing Corvis Corp. said yesterday it will change its name to Broadwing Corp., a move that reflects the Columbia company's reinvention from a maker of fiber-optic equipment to a provider of telecom services. | 3 |
Mountain-sized rock passes Earth The giant Toutatis asteroid passes by the Earth on Wednesday at distance of less than 1.6 million km. | 3 |
Italy 'paid \$1m to free hostages' A senior Italian politician says ransom of \$1m was paid for the release of two hostages held in Iraq. | 0 |
Bahrain dissolves rights watchdog Bahraini authorities close a non-governmental human rights watchdog whose director has been detained. | 0 |
Military talks on Kashmir glacier The Indian and Pakistani military are to discuss troop withdrawals from the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battleground, India says. | 0 |
The Solar System's Deflector Shield is Up A breeze of interstellar helium atoms is blowing through the solar system. Thankfully, we have our shields up! The solar system's deflector shield is a giant magnetic bubble called "the heliosphere." It's part of the sun's magnetic field. | 3 |
Blair Denies Going to War Erroneously BRIGHTON, England - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong. In his speech to the Labour Party's annual conference Tuesday, Blair acknowledged that intelligence tha... | 0 |
Bush Visiting Florida to Survey Damage CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush is eyeing Florida's 27 electoral votes, but after being battered by four hurricanes in six weeks the state's voters are more interested in weather forecasts than the shifting political winds. Bush was surveying hurricane damage Wednesday in Lake... | 0 |
Clashes Break Out in Heart of Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces raided suspected insurgent hideouts in the heart of the capital Wednesday, sparking clashes along a main Baghdad thoroughfare... | 0 |
1,500 Imperial Oil jobs leaving Toronto Imperial Oil Ltd. says it will shift its head office to Calgary from Toronto, with the move to the Alberta oilpatch affecting 1,500 employees and expected to be completed by next August. | 2 |
Ready For \$10M Space Try (CBS/AP) SpaceShipOne was set to return to space Wednesday, in nearly a carbon copy of its historic flight in June, when it became the first privately-funded manned vehicle to go into space. | 3 |
Browns' Winslow Needs Second Operation (AP) AP - Browns rookie tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. needs a second operation on his right leg and will miss the remainder of this season. | 1 |
North Korean Refugees Seek Asylum in Canadian Embassy A total of 45 North Korean refugees tried to seek asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, with one person arrested by police and 44 others succeeding, paving the way for their deportation to South Korea. | 0 |
* Norway seriously concerned over factional killings Sept 29, Colombo: The Norwegian government has expressed serious concern over the political killings in Sri Lanka. Norwegian Ambassador in Colombo Hans Brattskar made this statement when he met SP Tamilselvan | 0 |
IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S. For the first time since 2002, Japan's Earth Simulator is not the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. | 3 |
Computer Associates to Cut Jobs by 5 Pct. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software maker Computer Associates <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CA.N</A> on Wednesday said it would cut 800 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force, to pare costs amid st... | 2 |
Stocks Seen Flat; GDP, Oil Data in Focus NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks looked to open little changed on Wednesday after staging a late rally in the previous session, with investors focused on key economic and oil data as crude drifts near \$50 a barrel. | 2 |
American Greetings Reverses Year-Ago Loss CHICAGO (Reuters) - Greeting card maker American Greetings Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AM.N</A> on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit, reversing a year-earlier loss, as licensing i... | 2 |
But subsidy would remain until early next year, says Nduom The Minister of Energy, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, has said government policy on the subsidy of ex-pump prices of petroleum products would remain unchanged | 2 |
World Bank Says Improving Climate for Investments Improves Lives <b>...</b> The World Bank says nearly half the world #39;s population lives on less than \$2 a day. In its annual World Development Report, which draws upon surveys of 30,000 firms in more than 50 developing countries, the | 2 |
Euro Disney stock rallies on rough rescue ride with creditors Shares in theme park Euro Disney rallied strongly by 9.38 percent in early trading on Wednesday in relief that a roller-coaster ride to obtain creditor backing for rescue refinancing had ended safely. | 2 |
House of Fraser Seals Barclaycard Deal Department store group House of Fraser was today poised for a 25 million boost from a partnership with Barclaycard to run its store card scheme. | 2 |
Freescale announces dual-core PowerPC processor While much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | 3 |
City official: Expos will move to DC next year Major League Baseball has chosen Washington, DC as the new home of the Montreal Expos, a city official has told The Associated Press. | 1 |
Israeli Gaza incursion BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and troops have pushed into northern Gaza in a raid aimed at militants who have fired rockets at Israeli towns. | 0 |
Sri Lanka rebels seek Europe help A delegation of Tamil Tiger rebels has left Sri Lanka for a three week tour of Europe aimed at putting pressure on the government to resume peace talks. | 0 |
I #39;m not the first bowler to get smashed: Kasprowicz PACEMAN Michael Kasprowicz believes it is a matter of time before some other poor bowler suffers the same extraordinary fate inflicted on him during one disastrous over, which has turned the summer upside down. | 1 |
Chargers are manufacturing their own luck The rains came, and the Chargers at times acted as if they #39;d never been wet in a bathtub. But they once again managed to miss slipping on the bar of soap, and the parade kept on going through the afternoon into the night. | 1 |
Opposition asks govt to provide security to Indian team in B #39;desh: India News: New Delhi, Dec 6 : Voicing serious concern over the death threat to members of the Indian Cricket team, Lok Sabha members belonging to the opposition NDA today asked the government to provide fool proof security to the members of the Ind... | 1 |
IBM Claims Its Supercomputer Is World #39;s Fastest The two-year reign of the massive Earth Simulator as the fastest supercomputer in the world appears to be nearing an end. IBM executives on Wednesday will announce that one of the new machines in its Blue | 2 |
#39;No blandness #39; after radio merger Capital Radio and GWR #39;s merger will not mean any standardisation of programming, the stations insist. With 55 local analogue radio stations, 93 digital stations and a national frequency, the new group will broadcast to 18 million people. | 2 |
ASML, Carl Zeiss settle patent dispute with Japan #39;s Nikon for 145 <b>...</b> AMSTERDAM (AFX) - ASML Holding NV said it and its lens partner Carl Zeiss SMT have reached a binding settlement in their patent dispute with Nikon Corp whereby they will pay the Japanese company in total 145 mln usd. | 2 |
Update 1: Neimen Marcus Selling Zeppelin for \$10M What do you get for that special someone who has just about everything? How about a personal zeppelin? The 12-seater could be yours for a mere \$10 million from the 2004 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. | 2 |
Microsoft Unveils Windows XP for India (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this country of 1 billion people, most of whom do not speak English. | 3 |
Mountain-sized rock passes Earth The giant Toutatis asteroid passes by the Earth on Wednesday at distance of less than 1.6 million km. This is roughly four times the distance from the Earth to the Moon and closer than this 4.6km-wide rock has come to us since at least the 12th century. | 3 |
Fake viagra sold over the web from Malta-British scientists A study carried out by doctors from the University of London showed that 50 percent of the Viagra sold over the Internet was fake. | 3 |
Microsoft to Release Third Open-Source Project MicrosoftWatch: The Redmond software firm is set to make available more of its code under an open-source license on Tuesday. Microsoft is preparing to release a third piece of code under an open-source license | 3 |
Court battle over begins over real owner of Bonds #39; 700th home run <b>...</b> SAN FRANCISCO The legal battle over who is the real owner of Barry Bonds #39; 700th home run ball begins this morning in Superior Court. | 1 |
Dodgers score five runs in ninth for crucial victory LOS ANGELES -- Milton Bradley snapped. Then, aided by the horrendous Colorado Rockies bullpen, the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off perhaps their most improbable victory of the season. | 1 |
I Steal Your Heritage Paperwork bores me. Usually I don't fill it out. But in jail, you don't have a choice. | 3 |
U.S. Economic Slowdown Was Less Abrupt (Reuters) Reuters - A slowdown in U.S. economic growth\during the second quarter of the year was not as sharp as\previously thought, the Commerce Department reported on\Wednesday, partly because businesses built up inventories at\the strongest rate in four years. | 2 |
Economy Grows at 3.3 Percent Rate in 2Q (AP) AP - The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the spring, the government reported Wednesday. That was significantly better than a previous estimate but still the weakest showing in more than a year. | 2 |
Fannie Mae Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein will be online to talk about the investigation into accounting practices at Fannie Mae. | 2 |
2Q Economic Growth Pegged at 3.3 The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the spring, the government reported Wednesday. That was significantly better than a previous estimate but still the weakest showing in more than a year. | 2 |
Computer Associates Announces Restructuring Computer Associates International Inc. announced a restructuring plan Wednesday that would reduce its work force by 800 people worldwide, saving the business software maker \$70 million annually once the plan is fully implemented. | 3 |
Pay dispute ends in South Africa South Africa's wage dispute ends after unions representing public sector workers accept a revised government offer. | 2 |
X-43A Scramjet Primed for Mach 10 NASA -- Riding like the tip of a spear on its modified Pegasus booster rocket, NASA's third X-43A hypersonic scramjet research vehicle took to the skies today for a captive-carry flight, remaining attached to its B-52B mothership aircraft. Serving as a final in-flight check-out of ... | 3 |
Flight Controller Readies Shuttle for First Flip NASA -- A decade in Mission Control for native Texan Steve Walker has seen him help steer the Space Shuttle to historic destinations. Among them were the Russian Mir Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station... | 3 |
Cabinet Members Promote Healthier Eating Habits By MARYCLAIRE DALE PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Three U.S. Cabinet secretaries fanned out across the country Tuesday to promote healthier lifestyles, especially among the nation's snack-filled, exercise-starved youth... | 3 |
Foundation Awards Annual 'Genius Grants' By TARA BURGHART CHICAGO (AP) -- When Rueben Martinez became a barber in the Los Angeles area, his love of literature inspired him to lend out books for customers. He noticed that few books made their way back to him... | 3 |
'Greenhouse' Gas Found Rising Over Antarctica BY KOZO MIZOGUCHI TOKYO (AP) -- A group of Japanese researchers has found that carbon dioxide levels over the Antarctica rose by over 2.6 percent from six years ago - the first such detection of an increase in a "greenhouse" gas above the southern continent, group member... | 3 |
Dolly Creator Applies for Human Cloning License The creator of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, applied for a human cloning license Tuesday to study how nerve cells go awry to cause motor neuron disease. | 3 |
Economy grows at 3.3 rate in Q2 The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3 in the spring, the government reported Wednesday in the final revision to second-quarter gross domestic product. | 2 |
Imperial Oil moving HQ to Calgary TORONTO and CALGARY - Imperial Oil Ltd. will pull up its Toronto roots and move its head office to Calgary within the year, ending a long-term commitment to run its oil and gas operations out of Eastern Canada. | 2 |
Microsoft unveils Windows XP for India Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this | 3 |
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