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Iraq captors wanted US\$5 million ransom KUWAIT - The Kuwaiti newspaper that predicted the release of two Italian hostages in Iraq says the captors had originally demanded a US\$5 million (\$7. | 0 |
Former world leaders urge Western pressure on Putin over state of <b>...</b> WASHINGTON : Dozens of political figures including former heads of state and government have signed a letter calling on the West to toughen its stand on the state of democracy in Russia. | 0 |
Motorola to cut 1,000 jobs, take \$50 million charge Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Weyrauch said the cuts would be made worldwide quot;to better align our work force quot; and in anticipation of the separation of its chip operations, now operating independently as Freescale Semiconductor Inc. | 2 |
KING/5 owner Belo plans to cut jobs DALLAS -- Belo Corp. said yesterday that it would cut 250 jobs, more than half of them at its flagship newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, and that an internal investigation into circulation overstatements | 2 |
Search Upstart Launches New Site (AP) AP - Online search engine upstart Vivisimo Inc. is setting out to persuade the masses that Google Inc.'s vaunted technology isn't the most efficient way to find things on the Internet. | 3 |
\$10 million is just one flight away The first private manned rocket glided into space a second time and returned to Earth after recovering from a wild roll on its ascent on Wednesday in a bid to earn the \$10 million Ansari X Prize. | 3 |
ITALY REJOICES: Captives return from captivity At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism. | 0 |
Forteen Dead as Storm Batters Japan The death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose today to 14 after searchers found more victims, including two men buried inside their homes beneath mud and debris that had barreled down a mountainside. | 0 |
Millions Join to Fight Bird Flu in Thailand Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand today in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic. | 0 |
California Governor Vetoes Privacy Bills SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vetoed three bills aimed at boosting e-mail privacy at work as well as safeguard private medical and financial data. | 3 |
Lehman in Talks to Buy UK Hedge Fund -WSJ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a large British hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources. | 2 |
New Company Starts Up a Challenge to Google Google executives have long conceded that one of their great fears is to be overtaken by a more advanced Internet search technology. | 2 |
Martha Stewart #39;s new abode ALDERSON - Starting Oct. 8, Martha Stewart will begin serving her five-month sentence for lying to federal investigators here, in the Alderson Federal Prison Camp. | 2 |
Courtesy KHOU-TV After SpaceShipOne and its veteran pilot survived a whirling, nail-biting ascent Wednesday, the pioneering team that pulled off the private space journey could be just days from a second trip that would guarantee a multimillion-dollar bounty. | 3 |
Closing the gaps in open source When it comes to open-source issues, companies need a single throat to choke if something goes wrong, said Brad Silverberg of Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm based in Bellevue , Washington . | 3 |
Battle brews over California emissions rule Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state #39;s latest effort to curb air pollution. By Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. | 3 |
Mystics bow meekly out of playoffs Nykesha Sales may have scored a team-high 18 points to lead the Connecticut Sun to a 76-56 victory over the Mystics in Game 3 of last night #39;s WNBA Eastern Conference | 1 |
Cubs crumble, lose in 12th CHICAGO - One strike from an important victory, the Chicago Cubs ended up with another agonizing defeat that damaged their drive to the playoffs. | 1 |
Red-hot Astros edge Cardinals HOUSTON (Ticker) -- Jeff Bagwell made sure the Houston Astros did not waste a golden opportunity in the National League wild card chase. | 1 |
Blair faces vote amidst hostage crisis The anguish of hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq hangs over Prime Minister Tony Blair today as he faces the twin test of a local election and a debate by his Labour Party about the divisive war. | 0 |
FG Holds Talks with Niger Delta Militants The Federal Government yesterday revealed that security agencies are holding talks in Abuja with the leadership of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo, over the continued unrest in the Niger Delta. | 0 |
Mariners Defeat Athletics 4-2 (AP) AP - Ichiro Suzuki got one hit and plenty of help in knocking Oakland out of first place. Suzuki's fifth-inning single gave him 255 hits, two shy of George Sisler's 84-year-old major league record, and the Seattle Mariners sent the Athletics into second place in the AL West for the fi... | 1 |
Sisler Known Again Thanks to Ichiro (AP) AP - Day and night, Dave Sisler is tracking every hit by Ichiro Suzuki. The former big league pitcher tunes in the radio each evening, his wife checks the boxscores in the morning. | 1 |
Astros Continue Charge Jeff Bagwell drives in two runs and Jeff Kent hit his 300th career homer to send the Astros to a 6-4 win over the Cardinals. | 1 |
Padres Edge Giants Mark Loretta hits a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Padres beat the Giants 4-3 Wednesday night to knock the San Francisco out of first place in the wild-card race. | 1 |
Japan's production growing again Japanese industrial production expands for the first time in three months, pushing the Nikkei up for the first time in nine days. | 2 |
ConocoPhillips wins Lukoil bid MOSCOW _ US oil giant ConocoPhillips paid nearly \$2 billion for a stake in Russia #39;s second-largest oil producer Wednesday, a deal touted as Russia #39;s biggest post-Soviet privatization and | 2 |
Martha #39;s new estate Millionaire celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart had hoped to spend her prison time closer to her family and attorneys or in Florida, but instead will be incarcerated at a remote West Virginia prison camp. | 2 |
Conoco Wins Lukoil Bid, a Window on Iraq ConocoPhillips paid nearly \$2 billion at auction for the Russian government's stake in Lukoil, a purchase that could allow Conoco to become the first Western company to return to Iraq's oil fields. | 2 |
Cendant plans to buy travel website CHICAGOTravel and real estate heavyweight Cendant Corp. yesterday said it will buy travel website Orbitz Inc. for about \$1.25 billion (US), making it the second-largest competitor in the online travel industry. | 2 |
Judge leaves Black as Hollinger chief A judge overseeing the battle for control of Hollinger Inc. has allowed Conrad Black to remain atop the company, even after Black acknowledged that a \$1. | 2 |
STOCKS TO WATCH SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Among the companies whose shares are likely to see active trading in Thursday #39;s session are IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile) and American International Group (AIG: news, chart, profile). | 2 |
Software maker cuts 800 jobs NEW YORKSoftware maker Computer Associates International Inc. says it will cut 800 jobs, or 5 per cent of its workforce, to reduce costs amid weaker demand and falling prices for software and services. | 2 |
UPI NewsTrack Sports Baseball will return to Washington in 2005 after an absence of more than three decades. It was announced Wednesday that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season and play its home games at RFK Stadium. | 1 |
Twins swept away; Yankees #39; dominance deceptive yet telling The Minnesota Twins might have moved two steps back toward a return to Yankee Stadium next week for the first round of the playoffs when they got swept by the New York Yankees in a rain | 1 |
This story ran on nwitimes.com on Thursday, September 30, 2004 12 <b>...</b> Turning point: Austin Kearns slugged a two-run homer in the 12th to win it for the Reds. CHICAGO -- Big names come to town. The payroll increases. | 1 |
Japan industrial output rise marginally in August TOKYO : Japanese industrial output rose only 0.3 percent in August, suggesting after a series of recent weak data that the recovery in the world #39;s second-largest economy is slowing, economists said on Thursday. | 2 |
Agere Adjusts For Soft Demand Facing soft demand from major customers, semiconductor and software specialist Agere Systems said it will lay off 500 people and close three facilities to cut costs. | 3 |
A Fannie smacking Fannie Mae should be rosy red with shame. The spanking applied by federal regulators leads the quasi-government mortgage company to announce it will increase its capital reserves by 30 percent and reform accounting procedures. | 2 |
Two Yemenis get death for Cole blast SANAA - A court here has sentenced two Yemeni Al-Qaeda militants to death and jailed four others for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 sailors. | 0 |
New Zealand releases Israeli spies Two Israelis who were jailed for two months for trying to obtain a New Zealand passport were released from prison and deported Wednesday, Prime Minister Helen Clark said. | 0 |
Passing offense is adjusting, humming Bee Staff Writer. OAKLAND - If there was a silver lining to the Raiders #39; 34-27 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it was the steady progress quarterback Kerry Collins seems to be showing as Rich Gannon #39;s heir apparent. | 1 |
IMF Lowers Korea #39;s 2004 Economic Growth Forecast The International Monetary Fund has lowered its 2004 economic growth forecast for Korea to 4.6 percent, citing weak domestic consumer spending amid rising household and corporate debt. | 2 |
Delphi: SEC probing EDS transactions LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission is probing transactions between Delphi Corp and EDS, which supplies the automotive parts and components giant with technology services, Delphi said late Wednesday. | 2 |
Japan #39;s production growing again Japanese industrial production grew in August for the first time in three months, official data has shown. Although only a month-on-month rise of 0.3, and below some forecasts, the news saw Japan #39;s leading shares rise for the first time in nine days. | 2 |
CA to cut 5 percent of work force Computer Associates International announced on Wednesday that it plans to cut 5 percent of its work force as part of a restructuring effort, a move that comes as the company seeks to rebuild itself after a long-running accounting scandal. | 2 |
White-knuckle flight MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds. | 3 |
Save lives The United States can and must fulfill its duty to stem the bloodbath in Darfur. It can do so without endangering US soldiers. Unlike so many other crises that the United States must consider entering, the | 0 |
Martha Stewart sent to W. Virginia prison Stewart said in a statement she was pleased that the government had assigned her quot;so quickly quot; to quot;the first federal prison camp for women in the United States. | 2 |
Westfield tops Multiplex bid for Chelsfield Australian shopping centre giant Westfield Group on Thursday offered 585 million pounds (A\$1.48 billion) cash for UK property group Chelsfield as part of an overseas expansion drive, topping a bid from rival Multiplex Ltd. | 2 |
Tanager clients: Wachovia to watch over you Tanager Financial Services of Waltham, which helps wealthy people manage their finances, yesterday agreed to a takeover by North Carolina-based banking giant Wachovia. | 2 |
IBM Settles Some Pension Suit Issues (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday that it agreed to settle most of the issues in a lawsuit over changes in its pension plans on terms that allow the company to continue to appeal a key question while capping its liability ... | 3 |
Mom Collects Big Game Organs for Science (AP) AP - Stephanie Bradford isn't content with her daughter dissecting frogs in science class. She wants the students to cut into the hearts and eyes of moose, caribou, bear and other large game. | 3 |
Pitcairn Mayor 'Led Rape' on Island -Prosecutor (Reuters) Reuters - The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men,\descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began on\Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and\underage sex, Television New Zealand reported. | 0 |
Nigerian Oil Delta Peace Talks to Resume After Truce (Reuters) Reuters - Talks between a Nigerian rebel warlord\and the government will resume on Thursday to address rebel\demands for autonomy in the oil-producing Niger Delta following\a truce agreed a day earlier, the rebel leader said. | 0 |
Religious Groups Compete to Court Voters (AP) AP - In voter registration drives, sermons and voter guides, religious groups from across the ideological spectrum have intensified the level of their political activity this year, prompted in part by right-left culture clashes and the legacy of the tight presidential race ... | 0 |
Bush to Tour Damage Again Before Debate (AP) AP - He was going to be in the neighborhood anyway for a debate, so President Bush slipped another tour of hurricane damage onto his schedule Thursday, this time of the Treasure Coast area north of Miami. | 0 |
Bush, Kerry Set for Crucial First Debate (Reuters) Reuters - President Bush and\Democratic rival John Kerry square off in a crucial debate on\Thursday that will give voters their first chance to size up\the two White House candidates side by side. | 0 |
Pitcairn Mayor 'Led Rape' on Island -Prosecutor SYDNEY (Reuters) - The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began on Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported. | 0 |
China Urges Canada to Hand Over NKoreans in Embassy BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged Canada on Thursday to hand over 44 North Korean asylum seekers who broke into the Canadian embassy in Beijing, promising to deal with the men, women and children in a humanitarian way. | 0 |
Rockies Clobber Dodgers 4-1 (AP) AP - Jeromy Burnitz's RBI single with one out in the ninth inning sparked a three-run rally, and the Colorado Rockies beat Los Angeles 4-1 Wednesday night to slow the Dodgers' drive to their first playoff berth in eight years. | 1 |
Closing ceremony curtailed in respect to victims Athens: An hour-long no-frills closing ceremony dedicated to the victims of this week #39;s school bus crash brought to an end the Paralympic Games in Athens yesterday. | 1 |
Indians clean up with sweep The Indians #39; bullpen has struggled this season, 27 blown saves in 58 opportunities, but it was impeccable on Wednesday night. Five Cleveland relievers combined | 1 |
NL Wrap: Padres Edge Giants, Astros Soar to Wild-Card Lead (Reuters) Reuters - Mark Loretta hit a bases-loaded\sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th to lift the San Diego\Padres a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants in National\League action on Wednesday. | 1 |
AL Wrap: Mariners Overcome Athletics, Angels Move Clear NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jolbert Cabrera's two-run single with two out in the eighth lifted the Seattle Mariners to a 4-2 road win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday, while Ichiro Suzuki collected another hit in his record bid. | 1 |
NL Wrap: Padres Edge Giants, Astros Soar to Wild-Card Lead NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark Loretta hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th to lift the San Diego Padres a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants in National League action on Wednesday. | 1 |
Nikkei Snaps Nine-Day Fall TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei average rose 0.35 percent on Thursday, snapping a nine-day slide on a technical bounce in major exporters, but it ended the April-September fiscal first half down 7.61 percent. | 2 |
New Company Starts Up a Challenge to Google Vivisimo, an Internet search engine company, is introducing a service that is meant to lessen online information overload. | 3 |
Private Craft Rockets Past Edge of Space Completing the first leg of a quest for a \$10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday. | 3 |
Belo #39;s cutbacks will hit the heart of Texas: Providence Journal <b>...</b> Media company Belo Corp. said yesterday that it will cut 250 jobs, mostly at its Dallas newspaper and TV station. A company spokesman said cuts will be made across Belo #39;s operations,, though | 2 |
Big Blue reaches partial settlement on pension issues IBM Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed to pay \$320 million in retirement benefits to settle part of a class-action lawsuit and another \$1. | 2 |
Wachovia adds to wealth-management unit Wachovia Corp. aims to increase its profile in the Northeast and Southwest by expanding its wealth-management division. The bank, based in Charlotte, said yesterday that it is buying Tanager Financial Services Inc. | 2 |
Private rocket grabs a 2d slice of space A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California #39;s high desert yesterday | 3 |
Critics lukewarm on Spacey play Theatre critics appeared less than impressed by Hollywood star Kevin Spacey #39;s debut as artistic director of London #39;s Old Vic Theatre. | 3 |
Web founder attacks royality obession ONE OF THE founders of the Web warned that the interweb was in danger of being stunted by patent hungry software companies. Tim Berners-Lee called on companies to resist the temptation to lock up key technologies by demanding royalty payments. | 3 |
New Features Coming to SQL Server 2005 in Beta 3 When Microsoft delivers the Beta 3 version of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named quot;Yukon, quot; it will carry a number of feature enhancements that weren #39;t available in the more broadly distributed Beta 2 version. | 3 |
Top 10 depressing things about Expos #39; finale There are plenty of reports on the final day of the Expos, how the city that no one in the United States felt deserved a team is finally losing it. | 1 |
Rogers wins time trial at road cycling worlds Australia #39;s Michael Rogers won the elite-division time trial Wednesday at the road cycling World Championships, defending the title he was awarded earlier this month after | 1 |
Ban others as well by the same yardstick: Chanu New Delhi, September 29: Lifter Sanamacha Chanu, who was slapped a life ban by the Indian Olympic Association, today accused the authorities of adopting double standards saying they should have followed the same yardstick while dealing with other dope | 1 |
NL Wrap: Padres Edge Giants, Astros Soar to Wild-Card Lead Mark Loretta hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th to lift the San Diego Padres a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants in National League action on Wednesday. | 1 |
Axe-wielding passenger in psychiatric ward OSLO - An axe-wielding passenger who attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it has been taken to a psychiatric ward, police said yesterday. | 0 |
CheapTickets moving to Chicago Cendant Corp. plans to move its CheapTickets.com division from Arapahoe County to Chicago as part of the travel-industry giant #39;s planned purchase of Chicago-based Orbitz Inc. | 2 |
Stewart gets W. Virginia prison camp Martha Stewart lost a bid to serve her five-month prison term near her home in Connecticut and was ordered to report to a minimum-security prison camp in West Virginia next week. | 2 |
Arroyo: Economic Growth Prospects Are Firm President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo claimed Wednesday that the Philippines #39; growth prospects remain firm despite doomsayers #39; grim economic forecasts. | 2 |
Kmart sale shows two-pronged strategy Kmarts in Rochester Hills and Woodhaven are among the 50 stores the discount chain will sell to Sears Roebuck amp; Co. Employees and civic leaders were understandably upset Wednesday after Kmart | 2 |
Boston Scientific stent sales set record Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday it sold \$8.3 million worth of its Taxus drug-coated cardiac stents per day this month, a record level the Natick medical | 2 |
IBM says its Blue Gene computer is fastest IBM has claimed unofficial bragging rights as owner of the worlds fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NECs Earth Simulator in Japan. | 3 |
Chinese pornster sent down for a year A CHINESE UNIVERSITY student has been sentenced to a year in jail for flogging porn on the internet. According to the state Xinhua news agency, the 22 year-old student, identified only by his surname Xie, was | 3 |
Biz Intel Expanded in Microsoft #39;s SQL Server Microsoft (Quote, Chart) is expanding business intelligence capabilities in its database software with two free software service packs that augment the reporting capabilities in SQL Server 2000. | 3 |
Chelsea boss Mourinho rises above Porto gob yob Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho brushed off an ugly incident with a Porto fan before last night #39;s 3-1 demolition of the Euro champs at Stamford Bridge. | 1 |
Mariners beat Athletics 4-2 to knock Oakland out of first place Ichiro Suzuki #39;s teammates won #39;t stand for anybody messing with his spectacular season. When Suzuki got plunked in the back, Seattle starter Bobby Madritsch nearly went ballistic. | 1 |
Kent and Bagwell power Houston to 6-4 victory over St. Louis The Houston Astros can put themselves in the playoffs. They no longer need help from anyone else. Roger Clemens, Jeff Kent and the Astros took over the NL wild-card lead Wednesday night, beating the St. | 1 |
China wants refugees handed over China has asked Canada to hand over a group of 44 people, thought to be North Koreans, who stormed the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday. | 0 |
Passenger Attacks Pilots mid-air in Norway OSLO (Norway): A passenger on a Norwegian regional flight linking the northern towns of Narvik and Bodoe on Wednesday attacked two pilots with an axe while the plane was in the air, but the plane was later able to land. | 0 |
S.Lankan president says govt can no longer ignore Tamil rebel <b>...</b> Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday. | 0 |
Iraqi forces #39;seize Haifa Street terrorist #39; Iraqi security forces today arrested a suspected terrorist operating on Baghdad #39;s blood-soaked Haifa Street, an Iraqi commander said. | 0 |
Bloggers become weapon in US presidential election (AFP) AFP - The 2004 presidential campaign has marked the coming of age for Internet 'blog' journals as a cutting edge political tool for raising cash and revving up political support. | 3 |
AUSTRALIA: Metcash proposes takeover offer for Foodland Wholesale grocer Metcash Trading has announced that it intends to make an off-market takeover offer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Australian supermarket group Foodland Associated. | 2 |
Kimberly-Clark Outlines Cost Savings Kimberly-Clark Corp. said Monday it aims to cut costs by \$400 million to \$500 million over the next three years, and plans to boost its dividend by 12.5 percent and repurchase at least \$1 billion in stock during 2005. | 2 |
U.S. Targets Zarqawi Network in Dawn Strike in Iraq (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. forces destroyed a building in the\rebel-held city of Falluja on Thursday that they said was being\used by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group is\threatening to behead a British hostage. | 0 |
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