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Oil Jumps More Than \$2 on Winter Worries Oil prices climbed more than \$2 higher on Friday on renewed concern over supplies of distillate fuels in all main consuming centers before the Northern Hemisphere winter. | 2 |
Ray Brent Marsh Plea Agreement Ray Brent Marsh did officially plead guilty in court.. But the judge could still reject the plea bargain. 31-year old Ray Brent Marsh was surrounded by and army of Walker County deputies as he entered the courtroom. | 2 |
Gold Banc to pay \$16 mln to resolve loan claims Gold Banc Corp. (GLDB.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Kansas banking company, agreed to pay \$16 million to resolve claims it charged excessive interest rates and fees on federally | 2 |
Dollar fall #39;will hit economies #39; BERLIN: German Finance Minister Hans Eichel said in a radio interview yesterday that a sharp fall in the dollar would damage both the American and global economies. | 2 |
Angels Trade Jose Guillen to Expos (AP) AP - After a temper tantrum that led to an eight-game suspension and a course in anger management, Jose Guillen needed a change of scenery. He'll find it in the nation's capital. The Anahiem Angels traded Guillen to the Washington-bound Expos #151; the soon-to-be Nationals #151; on Friday for outfielder Juan Rivera and prospect Maicer Izturis. | 1 |
Iraqi Troops Raid Baghdad Mosque, 17 Detained (Reuters) Reuters - Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by U.S.\forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday\prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine,\witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said. | 0 |
Kidd Hopes to Practice Next Month (AP) AP - Jason Kidd's recovery from surgery on his left knee is on schedule and the All-Star point guard hopes to practice next month with the struggling New Jersey Nets. | 1 |
Young Rebuffs NBA, Sticks With Rangers (AP) AP - Chris Young never expected to have to choose again between baseball and basketball. The Texas Rangers helped make it an easy decision for the 6-foot-10 pitcher. | 1 |
BAR boss departs as Honda prepare to pass rivals JENSON BUTTON might have lost the battle, but last night he appeared to have won the war as David Richards, his boss at BAR Honda, was shown the door. | 1 |
Ruddock sees need to take big scalp as trial by pace awaits Wales Graham Henry and Steve Hansen - are pitted against a former pupil - Mike Ruddock. Wales coach Ruddock could not have had it much harder. | 1 |
Lebanese March Protests Syrian Domination (AP) AP - Thousands of Lebanese students and activists defied government warnings Friday and demonstrated against Syria's domination of their country. | 0 |
Anti-Bush protest at a trade summit in Chile turns violent The largest protest march since Chile #39;s police state ended 14 years ago turned violent Friday when demonstrators waged pitched street battles with riot police before President | 0 |
UN staff plan no-confidence vote against top management UNITED NATIONS: The UN staff union was meeting late last night to discuss a no-confidence measure against senior management of the United Nations, which has been hit by a series of scandals involving top UN officials. | 0 |
Protests as troops storm Iraq mosque BAGHDAD: An influential group of clerics last night protested against a raid on a Baghdad mosque by Iraqi and US troops, which killed four civilians. | 0 |
Fathers 4 Justice protester handcuffs himself to Hodge A campaigner with the pressure group Fathers 4 Justice invaded a conference yesterday and handcuffed himself to Margaret Hodge, the minister for Children, for 40 minutes. | 0 |
Farc kidnap saga marks 1,000 days Colombian ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt reaches her 1,000th day as a hostage of Marxist guerrillas. | 0 |
Greenspan rejects talk of throwing dollar a lifeline ALAN GREENSPAN, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, undercut lingering hopes of staging an operation to support the dollar at a meeting of bankers in Frankfurt yesterday | 2 |
Russia readies YUKOS auction Russia is pressing ahead with the last step in the destruction of YUKOS, saying it will auction the oil major #39;s main Siberian unit on December 19 for \$8.65 billion (4.66 | 2 |
Disney chief #39;s reputation on the line in battle with shareholders GEORGETOWN, United States : Controversial Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner has been tough and unflappable defending himself this week against shareholder charges that he wasted 140 million dollars by taking on Michael Ovitz as president in 1995. | 2 |
Former Crematory Operator Pleads Guilty To Dumping Bodies Former crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh says he #39;s guilty of dumping hundreds of bodies he was supposed to cremate. Marsh stopped performing cremations not long after he took over the family business in 1997. | 2 |
Australia resume chase Australia have just resumed their chase of New Zealand #39;s first-innings total of 353 in the first Test in Brisbane. The Australians ended day two on 197-4 with Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke at the crease. | 1 |
One-year deal avoids arbitration Chicago White Sox: The White Sox avoided arbitration with right-hander Jon Garlandon Friday, agreeing to a \$3.4 million, one-year contract. | 1 |
ABC breaks off negotiations with BCS ABC has pulled its contract offer to the Bowl Championship Series, a move that could result in three of college football #39;s biggest games moving to another network. | 1 |
Car bomber raids police convoy BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber attacked a police convoy in Baghdad yesterday as guerillas kept pressure on Iraq #39;s security forces despite a bloody rout of insurgents in Fallujah. | 0 |
Ivory Coast appointment provokes rebels, France Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France. | 0 |
End chaos call by PLO leader GAZA CITY: PLO leader Mahmud Abbas stepped up calls yesterday to end quot;armed chaos quot; engulfing the occupied territories, as the new Palestinian leadership readied the ground for presidential elections in January. | 0 |
FCC Pooh-Poohs a la Carte Cable The Federal Communications Commission says in a Congressional report that cable bills would increase under a system that lets customers pick and choose. Consumer groups disagree. | 2 |
Greenspan Warns of Trade Deficit Risk Swollen trade deficits eventually could threaten the economy by souring foreign appetites to invest in the United States, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Friday. | 2 |
US Dollar Continues Slide vs. Rivals The dollar continued its seemingly unstoppable slide against other currencies this week, leaving US and European officials increasingly at odds over what - if anything - should be done about it. | 2 |
OSI stock falters on Tarceva sales concerns Shares of OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. fell sharply Friday on concerns about the newly approved drug #39;s ability to meet sales targets. | 2 |
Verizon Adds Shopping Tools to SuperPages.com (Reuters) Reuters - Verizon SuperPages.com said on\Friday it has teamed up with eBay and Shopping.com\ for the roll-out of new shopping tools on its online\Yellow Pages site. | 3 |
To Bill.GatesMicrosoft.com; Subject: Your Spam Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided some perspective for anyone who thinks they are getting too much spam. quot;There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world. | 3 |
quot;In Defense of Hunting quot; On Nov. 18, the same day Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales, John Underwood of San Antonio appeared on the popular quot;Today Show quot; to talk about his Web site that offers remote-controlled shooting and quot;hunting quot; at his private ranch in Texas. | 3 |
DNA Analyst Fired For Allegedly Mishandling Data In 11 <b>...</b> LOS ANGELES -- The private laboratory that conducted DNA testing in the OJ Simpson murder trial has fired an analyst who mishandled DNA data in 11 recent LAPD investigations, it was reported Friday. | 3 |
Skulls Trojan attacks Symbian phones A newly intercepted malicious Trojan has begun infecting mobile phones which run the Symbian operating system. Dubbed #39;Skulls #39; the Trojan has been detected on Symbian shareware download sites where it bills itself as #39;Extended Theme Manager #39; by #39;Tee-222 #39;. | 3 |
SORRY ROONEY: I #39;M WRONG ENGLAND #39;S #39;bad boy #39; Wayne Rooney has apologised to Sven-Goran Eriksson for losing his head in Madrid. But the Manchester United star striker has stopped short of issuing a public apology to Emlyn Hughes #39; family | 1 |
Pacers #39; Bender Out Six Weeks With Injury Atlanta Hawks forward Al Harrington, middle, is welcomed to Conseco Fieldhouse by Indiana Pacers forward Jonathan Bender, left, and forward Ron Artest before the start of the game in Indianapolis,Wednesday, Nov.17, 2004. | 1 |
Navy-Rutgers Game Attracts Bowl Interest (AP) AP - Navy is a wanted team #151; for a bowl game, that is. Officials from five bowls will attend Saturday's game against Rutgers, with the Midshipmen in strong position to land their second straight postseason berth. | 1 |
Chile says Asia Pacific to push quot;very hard quot; for WTO pact SANTIAGO (AFP) - Asia-Pacific leaders will push quot;very hard quot; at a summit this weekend for a successful outcome to World Trade Organization free-trade negotiations, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said. | 0 |
15 killed, 45 captured in Mosul raids Iraqi and US forces have killed 15 rebels and arrested 45 suspected insurgents over a 24-hour period in Mosul, which includes a dusk raid on a mosque and tea house in the northern city #39;s old quarter. | 0 |
Canada and South Korea open talks for potential free-trade agreement (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - SANTIAGO, Chile (CP) - Canada hopes to nail down a free-trade treaty with South Korea that could offer major inroads into the booming Asian market, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday. | 0 |
Palestinians Reject Sharon's Peace 'Test' GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority on Friday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new and seemingly softer terms for restarting peace talks, saying he should drop all conditions for dialogue. | 0 |
Arafat's Widow Retrieves Medical Records (AP) AP - Yasser Arafat's widow took possession of the late Palestinian leader's widely sought medical records Friday, and was deciding whether to make the file public to "stop all these false ideas" of what caused his death, her lawyer said. | 0 |
Dynamic models demand detachment Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past. | 2 |
Beware of business IT horrors In this issue, my colleague Chad Dickerson unveils his "Top 20 IT Mistakes" based on some unhappy lessons he and others have learned. This list is so much fun that I couldn't resist adding my own: five common mistakes that business people make when dealing with IT. Each of these derives from bitter experience. And in three of the cases, I was personally responsible for the bad judgment (please don't ask which three!). | 2 |
The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid We all like to think we learn from mistakes, whether our own or others. So in theory, the more serious bloopers you know about, the less likely you are to be under the bright light of interrogation, explaining how you managed to screw up big-time. Thats why we put out an all-points bulletin to IT managers and vendors everywhere: For the good of humanity, tell us about the gotchas that have gotten you, so others can avoid them.<p>ADVERTISEMENT</p><p><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.ifw.general/sbcspotrssfeedgimme;sz=1x1;ord=200301151450?" width="1" height="1" border="0"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;11714788;10469367;q?http://infoworld.com/spotlights/sbc/main.html?lpid0101035400730402idlp">White Paper: Converged Services Spell Relief</a><br/>Discover why technical decision makers are turning to IP telephony and VPNs to increase worker productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line.</p> | 2 |
Sirius stock soars on Karmazin addition Investors are tuning in to news that the subscription-based programmer has tapped Mel Karmazin, the former Viacom president, to be its new CEO. | 2 |
Lawmakers agree to new ban on Internet taxes WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (AFP) - The House of Representatives on Friday approved a ban on taxing Internet access and online sales, which US President George W. Bush is expected to sign, a sponsor of the bill said. | 2 |
Global economic outlook in G20 sights as dlr drops Finance ministers and central bank governors from the 20 biggest economies prepared to meet in Berlin on Saturday to mull the global economic outlook, denying | 2 |
Typhoo tea tycoon bags Jimmy Choo for 100m JIMMY CHOO, the luxury footwear brand worn by Sex in the Citys Carrie Bradshaw, has been bought by Hicks Muse, the owner of Typhoo tea and Weetabix. | 2 |
Ohio paper strikers post own publication YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Striking reporters, photographers and other employees of The Vindicator went online Friday with their own newspaper. | 2 |
US Investor Steps into Jimmy Choo A US private equity group tonight said it had bought a majority stake in luxury shoe label Jimmy Choo in a deal valuing the company at 101 million. | 2 |
No. 3 Georgia Tech Routs Alabama St. 74-37 (AP) AP - Jarrett Jack scored 20 points and No. 3 Georgia Tech held Alabama State scoreless for more than nine minutes at the start in a 74-37 rout on Friday. | 1 |
Ohio Paper Strikers Post Own Publication (AP) AP - Striking reporters, photographers and other employees of The Vindicator went online Friday with their own newspaper. | 3 |
Gates: Most Spammed Man Alive Bill Gates and Microsoft were in the news a lot this week, most notably with CEO Steve Ballmer claiming that Gates is the most spammed person in the world. | 3 |
Air Force to standardize Microsoft configurations The US Air Force early next year will require its 525,000 personnel and civilian support staff to use a single and specially configured version of Microsofts operating system and applications, said the military departments CIO. | 3 |
Internet Hunting Worries State Officials A controversial website, www.live-shot.com, already allows Internet users to fire a .22 caliber rifle at targets on a Texas ranch from afar. | 3 |
Steam Update November 19, 2004 - Valve updated the Steam site with a bit of news regarding Steam and Half-Life 2 support: A small number of Half-Life 2 customers have been experiencing problems while playing the game, and we have traced these issues to corrupt Steam | 3 |
Roan report released Editors note. This story was first reported on www.postindependent.com. For more coverage, please read Sundays Post Indpendent. | 3 |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Prequel What happened before CJ arrived in Los Santos? Check these screens, details, and exclusive movie to find out. November 19, 2004 - Did you ever wonder what was happening in Los Santos prior to the events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? | 3 |
Some NATO Members Balk at Joining Iraq Mission, U.S. Says (Reuters) Reuters - In an unprecedented departure from | 0 |
London begins to believe the impossible It was Jonathan Edwards who best summed up the overriding mood when he helped London officially unveil its candidature for the 2012 Olympic Games yesterday. | 1 |
More Pain In Spain Spains midweek international friendly victory over England was marred by some disgraceful scenes of racism directed at Englands black players, but further sad events which have been so far largely unreported occurred in Madrid on Wednesday evening. | 1 |
Richards leaves BAR as Honda buy stake David Richards is to stand down as the team principal of British American Racing as part of a deal announced yesterday which sees Honda take a 45 stake in the Brackley-based formula one team worth in the region of 90m. | 1 |
No. 3 Georgia Tech Routs Alabama St. 74-37 Georgia Tech guard Will Bynum goes to the basket against Alabama State as teammate Theodis Carter looks on during the second half of their season opening game Friday, Nov. 19, 2004. | 1 |
Busch gets Ford pole (HOMESTEAD, Fla.) - Kurt Busch will start in great position on Sunday as he tries to wrap up the Nextel Cup drivers championship. Busch has won the pole for the season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway | 1 |
The match that always bears a grudge In sport few teams attract universal love, and in rugby the tribal thing runs deep. Gloucester fans will never welcome Harlequins into their Shed, Bath #39;s followers haven #39;ta good word to say about Gloucester | 1 |
Best Mate does enough to remain the punters #39; friend Green was the colour as always here yesterday, as a thousand Barbour jackets mixed with a thousand more country tweeds, but for one afternoon at least claret and blue ran it a close second. | 1 |
Nothing Too Discreet About Diodes' Plans For Continued Success (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - A few years ago, a cell phone could go three days without a battery recharge. Today, it's up to a week -- and climbing, says C.H. Chen, chief executive of chipmaker Diodes. | 3 |
Protesters Denounce APEC Summit in Chile A cloud of tear gas surrounds a demonstrator during clashes with Chilean police as protesters stage a rally against the upcoming APEC summit in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 19, 2004. | 0 |
Arafat #39;s hospital file taken by widow YASSIR ARAFATS widow visited yesterday the French hospital where he died and retrieved his widely sought medical records, just as his nephew was about to collect them. | 0 |
MI6 agents drafted in to improve Gaza security MI6 agents and British police are setting up a high-tech control centre for Palestinian security services in the Gaza Strip to help them maintain control in the volatile territory after the death of Yasser Arafat. | 0 |
UN staff blast officials, spare Annan UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (AFP) - The UN staff union on Friday passed a resolution highly critical of the world body #39;s senior management while declining to pin the blame directly on Secretary General Kofi Annan. | 0 |
Venezuela suspects exiles in prosecutors slaying Venezuela suggested Friday that exiles living in Florida may have masterminded the assassination of a prosecutor investigating a short-lived coup against leftist President Hugo Chvez | 0 |
The Long, Long Oracle-PeopleSoft Saga Could Yet Have Many Miles To Journey (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - The oracle of Oracle seems to have pulled another rabbit out of his hat in his quest to buy rival PeopleSoft . A majority of PeopleSoft shareholders appeared poised Friday to accept Oracle's offer of #36;24 per share, though two analysts said it would be close. (Oracle planned to reveal results of its tender offer at about midnight, after press time.) | 3 |
Democrats Discuss How to Reset Agenda (AP) AP - In the shadow of Bill Clinton and his gleaming new presidential library, leaders of the struggling Democratic Party held informal discussions this week of how to come back from their devastating Election Day losses. | 0 |
Congress Finishing Up #36;338B Spending Bill (AP) AP - White House and congressional bargainers sorted through a final pile of disputes Friday on an overdue #36;388 billion spending bill that would slice President Bush's priorities and curb a wide swath of programs. | 0 |
Congressional Action at a Glance (AP) AP - Action on Friday as the 108th Congress moved toward adjournment, which is expected on Saturday: | 0 |
U.N. Chief Urges Warning on Sudan Fighting (AP) AP - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to issue "the strongest warning" to all forces fighting in Sudan, saying that ending a 21-year civil war in the country's south would also help halt a humanitarian catastrophe in its Darfur region. | 0 |
NASA to Donate Data to Aid Plants, Animals (AP) AP - While NASA is best known for putting a man on the moon, the U.S. space agency will now help keep plant and animal species on Earth. | 3 |
U.N. Abandons Human Cloning Treaty Ban (AP) AP - Both sides in the human cloning debate claimed victory Friday after the United Nations shelved competing proposals for a treaty to ban the procedure and agreed to meet again in February to try to find consensus. | 3 |
Some NATO Members Balk at Joining Iraq Mission, U.S. Says WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an unprecedented departure from NATO practice, several alliance members will not allow their own officers assigned to NATO's two command centers to participate in its first collective postwar mission in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. | 0 |
Mozilla Thunderbird Final Is Set Officials at the Mozilla Foundation are getting ready to release the final version of Thunderbird 1.0 next week, officials said Friday. | 3 |
Asian Scientists to Launch Genetic Study (AP) AP - Scientists from across Asia will launch a genetic study of the region's people in an attempt to learn why some ethnic groups are more prone to certain diseases. | 3 |
Is Fanning #39;s Snocap a sno-job? p2pnet.net News Feature:- Reports on Napster creator Shawn Fannings newest p2p application, Snocap, are doing the rounds. Snocap is a, a proprietary Content Identification Service (CIS) that uses audio | 3 |
Greenspan Warns of Trade Deficit Risk (AP) AP - Swollen trade deficits eventually could threaten the economy by souring foreign appetites to invest in the United States, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Friday. The dollar, already sliding, took another nosedive after his remarks. | 2 |
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Skips Hearing (AP) AP - A prisoner who allegedly spent two months traveling with al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and helped run a safehouse for the terrorist network refused Friday to attend a hearing on his legal status in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | 0 |
Techies getting on-the-job nontech training? Business and communication skills are important, but many tech pros aren't given such training by employers, according to a report. | 3 |
FCC approves first software-defined radio SAN FRANCISCO - A technology that could transform wireless communications got a boost on Friday when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its first approval of a software-defined radio. | 3 |
First Look: iPod Brings Music to Your Photos Apple's latest offers a brilliant color screen and photo capabilities, but the price is high. | 3 |
Time Warp for Jets Just Won't Go Away Because of repeated showings, television viewers continue to argue over how badly the Jets mangled the clock in last Sunday's loss to Baltimore. | 1 |
Mora's Straight Shooting Has Gone to Falcons' Heart Coach Jim Mora's direct approach has helped lead Atlanta to the second-best record in the N.F.C., behind only the Philadelphia Eagles. | 1 |
A Baseball Legend Playing a New Position: Flawed Human Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier, is featured in a new play at the the Castillo Theater in which even a treasured icon is not sacrosanct. | 1 |
First Look: HP's Hefty Media Center Notebook Pavilion ZD8000 is a TV lover's dream, but it's no lightweight and it doesn't come cheap. | 3 |
Columnists: Bill Gates Is Right? Bill Gates is right about one thing: asking people to use a two-factor form of authentication would go a long way toward alleviating a lot of the password problems that plague computer security today. | 3 |
Bell-Ringers Set for Holiday Donations Its that time of year again, as members of the Salvation Army fan out across the Wabash Valley. Its time for their annual Christmas kettle bell ringing season. | 2 |
In Washington, it #39;ll be #39;Let #39;s go Nats #39; WASHINGTON - As expected, the Montreal Expos are about to get their new name: the Washington Nationals. A city official and a baseball official, both speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday that | 1 |
Fresh suspicion over Iran #39;s nuclear aims A breakthrough deal between Iran and the EU aimed at defusing an international crisis over Tehran #39;s alleged nuclear ambitions was thrown into uncertainty last night when diplomats said Iran was rushing to process feed material for the manufacture of bomb | 0 |
Prosecutor in Chavez coup inquiry is murdered A leading Venezuelan prosecutor investigating the 2002 coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez has been killed in a car bomb attack in Caracas, raising fears of renewed unrest in the country. | 0 |
Boston #39;s Big Dig Awash in Troubles Twenty years and \$14.6 billion after its conception, the most ambitious public works project in the nation -- an unprecedented effort to route an unsightly highway deep beneath the central | 2 |
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