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New Zealand lifts rates again New Zealand #39;s central bank has again moved to ease inflation pressures, raising its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 6.25 percent -- a level | 0 |
Under Fire, CA Pledges To Right Its Ship Facing palatable shareholder anger, top executives of Computer Associates International pledged Wednesday to add 150 new employees to aid its channel efforts and to | 0 |
Germany could lose equestrian gold BERLIN, Germany -- Germany, stripped of two equestrian golds in Athens, will almost certainly lose a third title after two of its show jumping horses failed dope | 0 |
More on the INDUCE Act \\"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that\companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held\liable for their actions."\\Which | 0 |
Leeds stall takeover Leeds United have asked for proof of funding after considering a 25 million takeover deal headed by Sebastian Sainsbury. The Leeds board met this afternoon to discuss a proposed | 0 |
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 | 0 |
Big leaks in Big Dig tunnels irk bigwigs The Big Dig is riddled with leaks that are dumping millions of gallons of water into the \$14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an | 0 |
US Stocks Hold Small Gains NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose slightly on Monday, as optimism that corporate earnings reports this week may come in better than expected lent support, but | 0 |
Blockbuster Cancels Late Fees You have to give Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) credit for trying. The company has not sat idly by while a changing competitive landscape slowly chips away at its core | 0 |
Explorer Says Titanic Should Be Protected (AP) AP - Legendary explorer Robert Ballard was nervous this summer as he prepared to return to the Titanic for the first time since he discovered | 0 |
Wood, Baker tossed in win over Houston HOUSTON - After being plunked between the shoulders, Michael Barrett offered a few words of advice for Roy Oswalt when the Chicago Cubs and Houston | 0 |
India #39;s Pratima, four others suspended for doping : Five weightlifters, including India #39;s Pratima Kumari, were Thursday suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for failing drug tests conducted at the | 0 |
GM Offers Locked Rates on Next Two Cars DETROIT - General Motors Corp. said Tuesday that people who buy 2005-model vehicles with loans from the automaker #39;s financing arm through Nov. 30 | 0 |
New SMB Tools Hit IBM AlphaWorks Site IBM Wednesday released new SMB tools on its emerging technology Web site to help customers deal with compliance issues as well as enable Business Partners | 0 |
Sprint Near Deal to Buy Nextel -Sources (Reuters) Reuters - Sprint Corp. is close to\an agreement to buy Nextel Communications Inc. for about #36;35\billion in a mostly stock deal that would combine | 0 |
What is a Search Engine? What is a Search Engine?\\All search engines start with a "search box", which is sometimes the main focus of the site, e.g. google.com, dmoz.org, altavista.com; sometimes the | 0 |
Nikkei Falls Over 1 Pct on Oil Worries (Reuters) Reuters - Tokyo's Nikkei fell more than one percent\by mid-morning on Monday as investors stepped up selling of\exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. | 0 |
'We're Done' Can be Predicted Before 'I Do' By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter HealthDayNews -- It seems the seeds of divorce are sown long before a couple recites their wedding vows. New | 0 |
HP, Intel End Itanium Chip Pact SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HPQ.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HPQ.N</A> and Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A> on Wednesday ended their 10-year partnership to co-develop the Itanium chip | 0 |
Justice Reviews Request for Probe Of Satellite Reports The National Reconnaissance Office has asked the Justice Department to consider opening a criminal investigation into recent disclosures about a highly classified satellite program | 0 |
Hamm Admits He Will Be Shocked if He Loses Gold LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm admitted he would be stunned if he lost the gold medal he was awarded | 0 |
EU downgrades 2005 growth forecast on high oil prices, euro rally LONDON, October 26 (newratings.com) - The European Commission has reduced its growth forecasts for the Eurozone economy for 2005, saying that | 0 |
Blow for ALH as hopes of rival Coles bid recede Shares in the pub and bottle shop owner Australian Leisure amp; Hospitality Group slipped yesterday after Coles Myer chief executive John Fletcher | 0 |
Telecom offers broadband to go Telecom mobile general manager Kevin Kenrick showed off the Harrier personal digital assistant at the launch of the company #39;s 3G mobile broadband network in Wellington yesterday. | 0 |
Women Are Making Inroads in Video Game Industry Jennifer Canada knew she was entering a boy's club when she enrolled in Southern Methodist University's Guildhall school of video game making. There's one | 0 |
Acclaim falls on its sword Acclaim Entertainment, the video game publisher responsible for the Turok series and the 1990s blood fest Mortal Kombat, collapsed yesterday under debts of more than \$100m (60m). | 0 |
U.S. Forces Launch Assault on Iraqi Rebels in Mosul MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held areas after a | 0 |
Cardinals Down Astros, Move to World Series Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen chase Houston starter Roger Clemens with two key hits as the Cardinals top the Astros, 5-2, to advance to the | 0 |
Blocking JPEGs no defence against Windows vulnerability One of the standard security tactics enterprises apply won #39;t work when defending PCs against threats posed by the image processing flaw found last week | 0 |
Tokyo Stocks Jump After BOJ Tankan TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei average rose 1.47 percent by mid-morning on Friday with broad range of stocks getting a lift thanks to a higher-than-expected key | 0 |
Gold Fields Welcomes Decision by South African High Court JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, December 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:JSE:)(NYSE:GFI) welcomes today #39;s decision by the High | 0 |
Toronto Blue Jays Team Report - September 6 (Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays posted a blowout victory over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday afternoon. Gabe Gross hit his first career | 0 |
Markets rise amid falling oil prices A slide in the price of oil gave stock markets a lift this afternoon, but gains in Toronto were sharply limited by losses in energy company | 0 |
NCAA #39;s decision on Southern Cal receiver draws criticism Thursday #39;s decision by the NCAA not to reinstate Southern California star wide receiver Mike Williams drew particularly strident and pointed criticism from | 0 |
Lehman in Talks to Buy UK Hedge Fund LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a leading British hedge fund, according to a | 0 |
Beheaded bodies found near Baghdad But police said two of the bodies had tattoos written in the Roman alphabet -- one saying quot;HECER quot;, and the other a letter H. The third | 0 |
Foster #39;s defends its ALH spin-off FOSTER #39;S Group chief executive Trevor O #39;Hoy has defended the handling of last year #39;s sale of Australian Leisure amp; Hospitality ahead of likely attacks | 0 |
Now It #39;s Official: US Growth Slowed US economic growth slowed more sharply in the second quarter than first thought as oil prices rose and the trade gap swelled, the government said | 0 |
Microsoft Puts Fingerprint Readers Into Hardware SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MSFT.O</A> on Wednesday unveiled a new array of keyboard and mice, with some featuring built-in fingerprint readers | 0 |
Gunmen Attack Samarra Police Headquarters (AP) AP - Gunmen attacked the police headquarters in Samarra on Wednesday, killing an Iraqi policemen and a child who was caught in the cross fire, a | 0 |
Back to Wall, Giants #39; Defense Turns Fearsome When the Giants #39; defensive players walked off the field after the Washington Redskins embarrassed them with an easy touchdown drive in the first | 0 |
Turkish, German leaders confident of EU green light for Ankara Turkey #39;s prime minister expressed confidence that the European Union #39;s executive will recommend opening talks for his Muslim-majority country #39;s membership | 0 |
Garcia Marquez Has Last Laugh on Book Pirates <p></p><p> By Alistair Bell</p><p> MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin American literary giantGabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on copyrightpirates by changing the | 0 |
Harvard handles BU Last Tuesday night, Harvard knocked off rival Boston College, which was ranked No. 1 in the country. Last night, the Crimson knocked off another local foe, Boston University, 2-1, | 0 |
A #39;S NOTEBOOK Security makes its presence known Arlington, Texas -- The A #39;s didn #39;t request any additional security at Ameriquest Field on Tuesday, but there appeared to be extra security | 0 |
World Bank in Caribbean to Assess Damage from Ivan The president of the World Bank says his staff is in the Caribbean to assess the damage caused there by Hurricane Ivan, and | 0 |
Excel powers advanced Halo 2 stats system An unlikely union of Halo 2 and Excel has been capturing the interest of statistically minded Xbox Live fans for whom Bungie.net #39;s seven-day online | 0 |
Owner of Texas Rangers issues apology after thrown-chair incident OAKLAND, Calif. The owner of the Texas Rangers has issued an apology after a fan suffered a broken nose after getting hit by | 0 |
Europe #39;s highest bridge links art and engineering President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Europe #39;s highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elyses and designed to | 0 |
AL notables Vladimir Guerrero has 121 RBIs and 120 runs to join Don Baylor as the only Angels player to reach those totals in each category in the same season. Baylor achieved | 0 |
October retail sales reassuring Retailers around the country reported October sales Thursday that were better than Wall Street analysts were expecting, but industry experts said the results didn #39;t raise their expectations | 0 |
Israelis accuse Egyptian officials of being slow to take action EILAT (Israel) - Thousands of frightened Israeli tourists rushed back home yesterday, streaming into Eilat just across the border, after the deadly | 0 |
McAmmond signs AHL contract EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ (Ticker) -- An NHL lockout did not stop general manager Lou Lamoriello from conducting some business. The New Jersey Devils signed left wing Dean McAmmond | 0 |
Astros Turn to Clemens With Series on the Line Twenty-one years after Roger Clemens pitched the Texas Longhorns into the College World Series, he is back in Texas preparing to pull another | 0 |
FALL OF FIDEL The 78-year-old Communist dictator stumbled, tumbled to the ground and fractured his left knee and right arm as he left the podium at a graduation ceremony Wednesday night in | 0 |
Hope fading for China miners More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 | 0 |
Corporate p2p network? p2pnet.net News:- Wurld Media, which, among other things, boasts its, quot;partnered with the USArmy, quot; says it #39;s struck a deal with three of the Big Four record label | 0 |
Highest Labor Day Pump Prices Expected NEW YORK (Reuters) - A record number of Americans planning one last summer road trip this weekend will shell out the highest Labor Day gasoline prices | 0 |
Man Accused of Scamming NFL Players (AP) AP - A 29-year-old Maryland man was charged with theft after calling NFL players Donovan McNabb, Darrell Green and Warren Sapp and convincing them to | 0 |
XM, Delphi Deliver Handheld Satellite Radio (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Satellite radio provider XM Radio has hooked up with hardware\manufacturer Delphi (NYSE: DPH) on a portable device that moves the emerging\entertainment service out | 0 |
PepsiCo Profit Up, Cuts Jobs; Shares Rise PepsiCo Inc. (PEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world #39;s No. 2 soft drink company, on Thursday said quarterly profit rose due to tax benefits | 0 |
Gold hits 16-year high on weakness of US\$ Gold futures hit a 16-year high Monday, continuing a bull run that has gold companies quot;living the dream, #39; #39; according to one industry | 0 |
U.S. Accuses Researchers of Animal Abuse (AP) AP - Federal regulators have accused University of California researchers of mistreating animals used in medical experiments over a three-year period, according to a complaint | 0 |
Kazmir #39;s a kid with plenty of moxie ST. PETERSBURG - The fastball was directed at Manny Ramirez #39;s left knee. Make no mistake about it. The pitch didn #39;t get away | 0 |
Unctad report: FDI in Malaysia at US\$2.47bil last year FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia dropped to US\$2.47bil last year from US\$3.20bil in 2002, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade | 0 |
Who spends the IT industry #39;s R amp;D dollars anyway? During his opening keynote at TechXNY on Tuesday, Computer Associates #39; interim CEO Ken Cron threw out a number that struck me | 0 |
Straight dealers! BAHRAIN is one of the most corruption-free countries in the Arab world, according to an international report. It also ranks well globally, coming in at 34th out of 146 places | 0 |
Two blasts kill 33 in central Pakistan Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Sunni radicals early Thursday in Multan in central Pakistan, killing at least 33 people and injuring dozens of | 0 |
Ali: Boxing needs US commission Muhammad Ali asked Congress yesterday to create a US Boxing Commission, saying oversight by the federal government is needed to protect boxers from exploitation and injury. Ali's | 0 |
Dubai terminal construction collapse Officials can not estimate all casualties as some people still remain under the ruins. The wall of the new airports terminal collapsed in United Arab Emirates capital at | 0 |
Real Madrid suffer new shock at Espanyol Real Madrid suffered their first Liga defeat of the season at Espanyol last night as their season threatens to collapse. David Beckham, captain Raul and | 0 |
#39;Blog #39; tops words of the year A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year #39;s presidential campaign tops US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster | 0 |
Researchers Identify Nicotine Addiction Gene The finding was made by breeding mice that lacked specific receptor subunits and testing their response to nicotine. Mice lacking the subunit designated beta2 had reduced sensitivity | 0 |
AL: Angels stay in hunt with win over A #39;s Garret Anderson hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning, Darin Erstad had a three-run homer and the Angels beat Oakland 5-3 | 0 |
U.S. Steps Up Attacks on Iraq Insurgents BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in | 0 |
Woods, Montgomerie match 66s, share lead Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomerie managed a little separation from those in pursuit Friday, each riding tournament-best rounds of 66 to a two-shot lead midway through | 0 |
Cingular set to complete takeover With one federal approval received yesterday and another coming as soon as today, Cingular Wireless is finally poised to complete its \$41 billion takeover of AT T | 0 |
Chen Shui-bian #39;s call for talks discredited Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian was accused Sunday of playing word games in his quot;national day quot; speech. Mainland researchers described his call for cross-Straits peace | 0 |
Six Injured in Bomb Blasts at Two Indian Mosques Unidentified men threw crude bombs at two mosques as worshippers ended Friday prayers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, wounding at least | 0 |
System X drops back p2pnet.net News:- Last november, Virginia Tech #39;s Mac-based System X was ranked as the third-fastest computer on the planet. The rebuilt Mac has since, quot;squeezed out a few | 0 |
Pitcher Leiter Headed Back to South Florida MIAMI (Sports Network) - The Florida Marlins have signed pitcher Al Leiter to a one-year contract, one day after the New York Mets decided not | 0 |
Muslim activist sentenced to jail for illegal business dealings with Libya (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to | 0 |
This one has star quality FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Bowl Championship Series national championship matchup between No. 1 Southern California and No. 2 Oklahoma in Tuesday night's Orange Bowl is rich | 0 |
Fog could mar Taj night-viewing in winter months Agra, Nov. 28 (PTI): The idea is right. But the timing is wrong. Being undertaken on an experimental basis for three months, night-viewing of | 0 |
Iraq Again In The Forefront as Australian Election Approaches Australia #39;s election campaign is in its final stages, with the country #39;s role in Iraq again a major talking point. Australian Prime | 0 |
Soyuz Brings Russian, US Astronauts Safely Back From Space A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has brought back American and Russian astronauts from space. The capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan early today, precisely on | 0 |
UK takes Linux to the heart of government Open source software is a viable alternative to commercial proprietary software, with potential significant value-for-money benefits for government, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) | 0 |
Seals Bludgeoned, Shot on Irish Island Up to 60 protected gray seals have been killed off the west coast of Ireland in what a wildlife group described as slaughter. The Irish Seal | 0 |
An Educated Cat? This one supposedly earned an MBA--and a lawsuit for the online university that issued the degree. Dallas-based online university Trinity Southern faces a lawsuit for consumer fraud filed by | 0 |
Holiday shoppers hospitalized after spray released in toy store _ At least three people were hospitalized and others suffered irritated eyes when someone released pepper spray at Toys R Us #39; flagship | 0 |
Dell back into blades, partners with Microsoft for Windows <b>...</b> Server maker Dell Inc is trying to steal some headlines away from Sun Microsystems Inc, which is launching its Solaris 10 Unix | 0 |
Stonehill has grand opening Stonehill rolled up 349 yards of total offense in a 23-6 Northeast-10 Conference victory over Assumption yesterday in Easton, snapping a seven-game winless streak dating to last season | 0 |
Ont. set to increase minimum wage for second time in as many years (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - The 400,000 people who work for minimum wage in Ontario should | 0 |
After His Star Turn, Martnez Exits Stage Left The current tales of the Red Sox have them winning the World Series, then doing weird things to reconfigure their championship team. Hello, David; | 0 |
UK Will Listen, Not Negotiate, with Iraq Kidnappers LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them | 0 |
Barrichello wrecks Coulthard #39;s hopes DAVID Coulthard took his early retirement from the Japanese Grand Prix on the chin despite missing out on his best result of the season, as Michael Schumacher | 0 |
Australia investigating if Iraq body could be rumored hostage (AFP) AFP - Australia was investigating whether a foreigner found dead in central Iraq could be one of two Australians allegedly kidnapped in | 0 |
Indonesia orders security clampdown after terror attack warnings JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities on Thursday ordered a nationwide security crackdown after several foreign governments warned that terrorists were preparing to launch attacks against Western | 0 |
Sony Uses Russian Cargo Jets to Fix Christmas-Time PlayStation <b>...</b> Sony Corporation, the worlds second largest consumer electronic maker, was forced to use Russian cargo planes to fly the new version of | 0 |
Iraqi Cleric Agrees Deal to End Siege at Shrine NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - The leader of a Shi #39;ite uprising in Iraq agreed Wednesday to leave a holy shrine encircled by US | 0 |
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