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UK to Seek Debt Relief for Tsunami Nations LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, with United States backing, called on Tuesday for a freeze on foreign debts owed by the countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster. | 0 |
O #39;Neill hits out at Novo Celtic manager Martin O #39;Neill lost no time in re-igniting the flames of an explosive Old Firm derby by condemning the actions of Rangers striker Nacho Novo during his side #39;s 2-0 defeat. | 1 |
Dungy entitled to be offended by MNF intro Before putting Towelgate to rest, it #39;s important to revisit some of the specifics of what Colts coach Tony Dungy said about the Terrell Owens-Nicollette Sheridan skit at the beginning of Monday Night Football. | 1 |
Winky sees off Mosley again Ronald #39;Winky #39; Wright edged #39;Sugar #39; Shane Mosley for the second time in eight months in Las Vegas - but only just as he won a majority decision by the closest of margins to retain his WBA and WBC light-middleweight titles. | 1 |
Game at Clemson marred by brawls Clemson #39;s college football game with rival South Carolina was interrupted in the second half when a fight involving several players erupted, spreading nearly the entire length of the field at Clemson #39;s Memorial Stadium and coming close to spilling into | 1 |
Howard unveils election platform The Tories will stand up for the "forgotten majority", says Michael Howard as he unveils the Tory election manifesto. | 0 |
US State Department: Iranian Intelligence is Strong While US President George W. Bush repeated his concerns over the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the US Department of State backed Secretary of State Colin Powell #39;s remarks that quot;Iran has been developing rocket systems capable of carrying | 0 |
Cricket: Australia tighten grip Skipper Ricky Ponting makes a double century as Australia continue to dominate the third Test against Pakistan. | 0 |
Manmohan arrives on two-day visit to Assam Guwahati, Nov. 21 (PTI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, arrived here today from Manipur on a two-day visit to Assam amidst tight security. | 0 |
Directors rebuff Oracle #39;s \$24 bid PeopleSoft Inc. #39;s board of directors said Saturday it will not accept Oracle Corp. #39;s bid to buy the company for \$24 per share, even after 61 percent of the Pleasanton firm #39;s investors endorsed the offer. | 2 |
Huge US deficit emphasizes fragile world view of the American <b>...</b> International Forecaster Allyn Hunt writes: Bush #39;s re-election in contrast signals a period of increased efforts by Brazil #39;s widely popular President of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina #39;s Nestor Kirchner, Venezuela #39;s vigorously anti-Bush President | 2 |
Clash of retail giants could benefit small toy stores With only 34 shopping days until Christmas - and a 10-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter to shop for - Lisa Smalley knows where she #39;ll be doing her toy shopping. | 2 |
Nintendo #39;s new portable DS a big change from Game Boy Nintendo believes that when it comes to video games, your fingers want to touch as much as twitch and that two really is better than one. | 3 |
Recording giants file copyright suit against city music collector Brett Bojrab likes music. He owns hundreds of compact discs that he listens to while driving. To avoid hauling CDs back and forth into his house, Bojrab copied much of his music collection onto | 3 |
Chase for the Cup To NASCAR fans, a pocket calculator is going to be as valuable today as an air gun for a tire changer. Depending on where they finish in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the 18 | 1 |
Wright #39;s jab still too much for Mosley Firing his father led to a better performance for Shane Mosley against Winky Wright in their fight for the undisputed super welterweight championship Saturday at Mandalay Bay. | 1 |
ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA RATINGS JASON ROBINSON: The England captain boycotted the media all week but did his talking on the pitch as South Africa were comfortably dispatched. | 1 |
Palestinians want Powell to help release Barghouthi RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei called on Saturday for the United States to pressure Israel to release jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi and other imprisoned Palestinian leaders. | 0 |
Detainee release lends dignity to Myanmar YANGON: The release of thousands of prisoners including top dissidents in military-run Myanmar lends dignity to the nation, the main opposition party said on Saturday as it praised those freed for their struggle for democracy. | 0 |
Afghan sentenced for killing four journalists KABUL: An Afghan man was found guilty on Saturday of killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, and sentenced to death. | 0 |
Minister Tries to End Royal Memo Row Education Secretary Charles Clarke today tried to end the row over the Prince of Waless controversial memo by praising his commitment to developing peoples ambition. | 0 |
New anti-terror plans The Government is considering tough new anti-terrorism laws amid fears of an al-Qaida attack on Britain. Home Secretary David Blunkett will unveil the new proposals in an interview to be aired today on ITV1 #39;s Jonathan Dimbleby programme. | 0 |
Sri Lanka steps up security COLOMBO: Sri Lanka stepped up security in the capital Colombo on Saturday as police launched an investigation into the slaying of a judge and his bodyguard, officials said. | 0 |
Israel Kills 7 Palestinians in North Gaza -- Medics BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead seven Palestinians in a strawberry field in north Gaza on Tuesday after mortar fire from Palestinian militants there wounded two Jewish settlers. | 0 |
Bush warns Iran and North Korea US President George W Bush is stepping up pressure on North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear weapons programmes. At the Apec summit of Pacific-rim countries in Chilean capital Santiago Mr Bush has been | 0 |
Russia to supply energy resources to India RBC, 19.11.2004, Moscow 17:06:44.Gazprom will cooperate with India-based Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) focusing on energy supplies to this country. | 2 |
Racism: FIFA should hit Spain hard It seems that England simply cannot escape controversy. But on Wednesday night in Madrid it was their opponents, rather than themselves, that were dragged through the mire as racist chants directed at England | 1 |
Prime time, slime time I know you don #39;t care about people like me. Actually, you and the rest of the entertainment history don #39;t care about people, period. | 1 |
Tsunami toll hits 15,485 dead or missing in India: official (AFP) AFP - The official toll in southern India from tsunamis has reached at least 9,571 people confirmed dead and 5,914 missing, many of them presumed dead, the government said. | 0 |
Humane law in offing in Manipur: PM Imphal, November 21: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday expressed the hope that a quot;humane quot; law that protects national security and human rights of the people of Manipur would be in place as early as possible once the controversial Armed Forces | 0 |
Barcelona coach urges caution despite victory over Madrid Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard urged caution following an emphatic 3-0 victory over Real Madrid, maintaining the Spanish league title race is still far from decided. | 1 |
Lockheed Martin allegations focus on Boeing #39;s chief executive Nov. 18--Lockheed Martin has introduced evidence in a civil lawsuit that allegedly demonstrates Boeing Chief Executive Harry Stonecipher knew former Air Force acquisitions officer Darleen Druyun gave Boeing | 2 |
Insurers may drop thousands of homeowners as moratorium ends Come Dec. 1, many Floridians may find an unwelcome piece of mail interspersed between bills, holiday catalogs and greeting cards: a non-renewal or cancellation letter from their insurers. | 2 |
Nintendo prepares weekend launch of new handheld Los Angeles Reuters News Service, 19 November 2004 - A generation of children grew up playing Nintendo #39;s Game Boy handheld video game system, and now that they have grown up, Nintendo has a new toy for them. | 3 |
Hostage freed, husband grieves POLISH hostage Teresa Borcz-Halifa emerged over the weekend saying her captors in Iraq had treated her well, but refusing to explain how she came to be free. | 0 |
8 Dead, 79 Wounded in Chinese Mine Fire Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from | 0 |
SWAPO Declared Winner in Namibia Election Namibia #39;s ruling SWAPO party scored an overwhelming victory in official election results on Sunday, bolstering the former guerrilla movement as it grapples with sensitive issues such as land reform. | 0 |
Five missing German tourists found FIVE German tourists who went missing in Algeria #39;s Sahara desert have been found safe and well in the southern Djanet region of the north African country, local police said today. | 0 |
China Plane Crashes Into Frozen Lake, Killing 54 (Reuters) Reuters - A China Eastern commuter plane crashed\into a frozen lake seconds after takeoff in Inner Mongolia on\Sunday, killing 53 people on board and one on the ground, the\airline and state media said. | 0 |
Fox hunting ban is about 'class war': Labour MP (AFP) AFP - The ban on fox hunting is driven by the Labour Party's desire to stamp out "the old order" dominated by the country's landowning upper classes, a Labour MP wrote in The Sunday Telegraph. | 0 |
Expos #39; move given conditional approval Baseball owners took another step toward moving the Montreal Expos to Washington next year, giving conditional approval Friday but hinging their decision on the September agreement that did not cap the cost of a new stadium. | 1 |
Taser Execs Selling Heavily on the News NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Taser International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TASR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TASR.O</A> have jumped 20 percent since early last week as the stun gun maker issued a slew of announcements painting a positive picture of its business prospects. | 2 |
Be Happy, Put Retirement Fears to Rest WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If retirement fears were color-coded, they would be somewhere between orange and red right now. | 2 |
Ukrainians Choose New President in Landmark Vote KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians voted for a new president on Sunday, choosing between their Russian-backed prime minister and a West-leaning liberal in a tight contest many fear could degenerate into turmoil. | 0 |
Fans #39;disgusted #39; by Tigers #39; fate ATLANTA -- After watching Auburn University #39;s football team finish a perfect regular season yet remain on the outside of the national championship picture, Doyle King is experiencing a familiar and not-so-welcome feeling these days. | 1 |
Israel, Palestinians Await Powell Visit JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election. | 0 |
Death in Custody of Afghan Kidnap Suspect Probed KABUL (Reuters) - A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. | 0 |
Quadruple on the cards for wealthy Chelsea a 2-1 defeat to Benfica in the 2004 Portuguese Cup Final. That aside, his Porto team won everything they entered: two | 1 |
Iraq debts write-off 'approved' Key creditor nations reportedly approve a plan to slash Iraq's debts, as an election date is announced. | 0 |
Focus Shifts to Dollar and Rates The post-election stock market rally has been rudely interrupted by the implications of a sliding US dollar, higher interest rates, the US current account deficit and Friday #39;s rebound in oil prices. | 2 |
Baghdad Governor Assassinated; Bombing Kills 10 (Reuters) Reuters - Gunmen killed the Baghdad governor in\Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a\suicide bomber killed 10 people near the Green Zone on Tuesday\in an escalating campaign to wreck a Jan. 30 election. | 0 |
Taser insiders sold \$68 million of stock in a week Taser International Inc. #39;s chairman, two co-founders and five other insiders sold more than \$68 million of their stock between Nov. 5 and Nov. 11, regulatory filings show. | 2 |
A trade-rule gamble Did you know the United States has no right to ban cross-border gambling on the Internet? That #39;s what the World Trade Organization decreed after the two-island nation of Antiqua and Barbuda complained about | 2 |
Tennis: Marathon tie-breaker triumph puts Federer into Masters Cup <b>...</b> HOUSTON, United States : World number one Roger Federer outlasted Marat Safin in a tie-breaker that matched the longest in tennis history to book a date against Lleyton Hewitt in the ATP Masters Cup final. | 1 |
World #39;s oldest man dies at age 113 Fred Hale Sr., believed to have been the oldest man on Earth, has died less than a month before his 114th birthday at a DeWitt, NY, nursing home. | 1 |
England could have walked - Fifa Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has admitted he would have supported England #39;s players if they had walked off in the face of racial abuse against Spain this week. | 1 |
Dramatic appearance in Poland of kidnap victim Teresa Borcz Khalifa, a Polish woman kidnapped last month in Iraq, dramatically appeared at a press conference in Warsaw yesterday, but gave few details of her captivity or how she had been freed. | 0 |
PM departs for four-day S. Asian tour ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz left on Sunday for a four-day official visit to three South Asian member countries for talks on regional and bilateral matters. | 0 |
Palestinians want the Americans to ensure smooth elections JERUSALEM Palestinian leaders have outlined plans to persuade visiting American envoys to help ensure smooth elections to replace Yasser Arafat. | 0 |
US experts to examine filtering Web songs: Court Sydney, December 4: US technical experts will fly to Australia to examine whether song files swapped by users of Kazaa, the world #39;s most popular Internet file-swapping system, can be filtered, a judge hearing a copyright case has ruled. | 3 |
Focus Shifts to Dollar and Rates (Reuters) Reuters - The post-election stock market rally\has been rudely interrupted by the implications of a sliding\U.S. dollar, higher interest rates, the U.S. current account\deficit and Friday's rebound in oil prices. | 2 |
Taser Execs Selling Heavily on the News (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of Taser International Inc.\ have jumped 20 percent since early last week as the\stun gun maker issued a slew of announcements painting a\positive picture of its business prospects. | 2 |
Be Happy, Put Retirement Fears to Rest (Reuters) Reuters - If retirement fears were\color-coded, they would be somewhere between orange and red\right now. | 2 |
When Executives Speak, Hotels Listen NEW YORK (Reuters) - When corporate guests ask for something, smart hotel managers get it. | 2 |
BAE turns its sights on US BAE Systems has launched a search for a senior American businessman to become a non-executive director. The high-profile appointment is designed to strengthen the board at a time when the defence giant is | 2 |
WTO negotiators finish week of farm talks Negotiators at the World Trade Organization completed weeklong farm talks Friday, part of discussions on ways to reach a wider-ranging liberalization accord by the end of 2005. | 2 |
Hewitt bids to derail Federer express THE odds are stacked heavily against Lleyton Hewitt but the Australian has incentives aplenty when he faces world No. 1 Roger Federer in the Masters Cup final in Houston today. | 1 |
Down and out A GIANT roared, a nation was crushed and debate over the ethics of an ancient game flared at the Gabba yesterday. After a sluggish start to the first Test Australia flexed their | 1 |
Afghans Investigate Death of Suspect (AP) AP - Authorities are investigating whether a suspect in the kidnapping of three U.N. workers was tortured before he died in police custody, an official said Sunday. | 0 |
Humans May Double the Risk of Heat Waves Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature. | 3 |
PM in Assam for a two-day visit GUWAHATI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in on Sunday from Manipur on a two-day visit to Assam amidst tight security. The Prime Minister drove straight to the Raj Bhavan, where he is scheduled to meet | 0 |
Jail term for Bahraini activist A Bahrain court sentences a human rights activist to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the state. | 0 |
MacCentral week in review Apple opens its first European Apple Store on Saturday, on Regent Street in London #39;s West End. In a special press tour of the store earlier this week, Apple #39;s vice president of retail Ron | 3 |
Barcelona 3-0 Real Madrid Cameroon #39;s Samuel Eto #39;o Fils helped Barcelona trounce Real Madrid 3-0 to move seven points clear of their great rivals in Spain #39;s La Liga. | 1 |
Tailbacks take back seat in Iron Bowl TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA - The Iron Bowl didn #39;t come close to providing the anticipated showcase of top tailbacks. Instead, the quarterbacks and two of the nation #39;s best defenses dominated No. | 1 |
Bears #39; trail drawing closer to Pasadena BERKELEY, Calif. -- Push led to shove all afternoon, but when it was over, the California students owned the field. They flowed out of the Memorial Stadium bleachers Saturday in a riotous celebration of the | 1 |
Russia blocking Paris Club debt relief for Iraq: G20 source BERLIN (AFP) - Russia is blocking a Paris Club agreement to wipe out 80 percent of Iraqi debt, a source said on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meeting of finance chiefs. | 0 |
Afghan gets death penalty for killing four A Kabul, Afghanistan, court has sentenced 29-year-old Reza Khan to death for killing four journalists in 2001. Khan was convicted of killing Australian television cameraman | 0 |
How to avoid viruses, remotely access home PC Scripps Howard News <b>...</b> We have more and more letters to answer. Let #39;s get right to the mailbag. Q: In a recent column you said that 95 percent of all viruses and spyware are aimed at Internet Explorer, so I decided to do away with IE. | 3 |
Australia vs New Zealand Australia #39;s Jason Gillespie celebrates after reaching his first Test half-century against New Zealand during day four of the first Test in Brisbane, on Sunday. | 1 |
SA #39;s Hall seeks to pin down win South Africa all-rounder Andrew Hall warned India they should be under no illusions that the tourists are fully focused on a positive result in Kanpur. | 1 |
Russia holds out on Iraq debt plan Russia has not agreed to a German-US proposal that would forgive up to 80 percent of Iraq #39;s foreign debt, according to German Finance Minister Hans Eichel. | 0 |
Prince Charles Hits Back at #39;Out of Touch #39; Jibe Prince Charles will hit back on Monday at government accusations that he is old-fashioned and out of touch in his views on ordinary people #39;s aspirations. | 0 |
Britain considering tough new anti-terror laws London: Britain is considering sweeping new anti-terrorism laws including special courts to try terror suspects without a jury, Home Secretary David Blunkett said in an interview Sunday. | 0 |
GM, Ford Sales Sagged in November The Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG was the only domestic car company that gained ground during November, marking its eighth straight month of US vehicle sales increases. | 2 |
VIOXX HEARINGS: GET A TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE When pharmaceutical giant Merck amp; Co. abruptly pulled its arthritis pain medication Vioxx from the marketplace on Sept. 30, more than 2 million patients were taking the drug. | 2 |
Costello to steer Group of 20 TREASURER Peter Costello will chair the 2006 meeting of the Group of 20, which brings together the finance ministers and central bankers from the leading industrial and developing nations. | 2 |
Report: Officials search Yukos managers #39; homes Russian authorities have searched the homes of dozens of managers working for the embattled Yukos oil company in what one board member described as a massive campaign reminiscent of the Stalinist purges, a news agency reported Sunday. | 2 |
Busch the Man to Beat for Nextel Cup (AP) AP - Kurt Busch has been doing everything right in his bid for his first Nextel Cup championship. He now has one big hurdle to clear entering Sunday's Ford 400. He needs to protect a vulnerable 18-point lead over Jimmie Johnson, with Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mark Martin also within reach. | 1 |
Report: Officials search Yukos managers' homes (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - MOSCOW (AP) - Russian authorities have searched the homes of dozens of managers working for the embattled Yukos oil company in what one board member described as a massive campaign reminiscent of the Stalinist purges, a news agency reported Sunday. | 0 |
Hole-hearted attempt THE fastest-swivelling space science observatory rocketed into orbit yesterday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions, which astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes. | 3 |
Reeling Kiwis try to get back on the wagon IF, as New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming suggested in the wake of yesterday #39;s embarrassing capitulation, his team began the day with a quot;mental hangover quot; then he faces a devil #39;s own job getting them back on the wagon in time for the next Test, starting | 1 |
Hodgson homes in on number 10 Charlie Hodgson hopes to give England coach Andy Robinson a selection headache when World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson returns to fitness. | 1 |
Cal #39;s Arrington passes the torch to Lynch, and future looks bright BERKELEY - Someone asked Marshawn Lynch, Cal #39;s precocious true freshman, how far he could throw a football. His tone is matter-of-fact, a quot;how #39;s the weather quot; voice. | 1 |
Profits Fading in Digital Camera Industry (Reuters) Reuters - Bloated with inventory and mired in the\red, the digital camera business of Japan's Olympus Corp.\underscores how making money in the cut-throat market is\getting tougher. | 3 |
Small Plane Crashes in China, Killing 54 Rescuers search for the bodies of air crash victims at the site of an air crash in Baotou, north China #39;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Sunday November 21, 2004. | 0 |
Top brass warns of Iraqi civil war LISBON: US army chief General Richard Myers said in an interview that civil war could erupt in Iraq after forthcoming elections. However, General Myers, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, told the | 0 |
Arafat #39;s nephew arrives in Paris for Arafat #39;s medical records Nasser al-Qidwa, nephew of the deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, arrived Sunday in Parisfrom Cairo to pick up Arafat #39;s medical records, French TF1 television reported. | 0 |
Prince Charles defends his views on education Prince Charles, who was lambasted by the media and a government lawmaker for a memo in which he derided people who aspire to lofty goals beyond their natural talent, said on Sunday that he had been misinterpreted. | 0 |
Costa Rica: Earthquake kills eight A strong earthquake rocked Costa Rica during the weekend, killing eight people and shaking the Central American nation during the Ibero-American summit. | 0 |
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