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A novel idea has been introduced by Mount Nittany Middle School that allows students to pick up bagel, muffin, cold cereal and fresh fruit from âgrab-and-goâ food cart parked near the principal's office.	1Entertainment
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of the most esteemed civil rights organizations, founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	8Sports
WASHINGTONJohn Kerry seized the offensive yesterday, fighting back against what his campaign calls a "smear attack" on his Vietnam record and pointing the finger of blame directly at President George W. Bush.	12U.S.
Un testo di intercettazione tra il segretario dei Ds e l'allora presidente di Unipol cosÃ¬ come sarebbe trascritta nella perizia depositata oggi al palazzo di giustizia di Milano Telefonata tra Fassino e Consorte "Con Abete sto abbottonatissimo" (15:38 11/06/2007)	4Italia
Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems North America Inc. filed protests with the Air Force Tuesday over a $4 billion contract to upgrade electronics on C-130 military transport planes awarded to Boeing Co. in 2001.	0Business
A child dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.	10Top News
People 2: Ashcroft 0	6Sci/Tech
LONDON (Reuters) - Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the owner of the Dubai stock exchange, is mulling a rival bid to Nasdaq's agreed $3.7 billion takeover of Nordic markets owner OMX , the Sunday Times reported.	0Business
FORMER Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was suspended today from playing soccer in England for seven months after failing a drugs test.	1Entertainment
The world's economic powers, which ended three days of meetings Sunday, insisted they are moving closer to a deal on debt relief for Iraq and other poor nations even though an agreement has proved elusive.	0Business
Wal-Mart Stores is expanding the definition of "immediate family" in its employee-ethics policy to account for laws in states that recognize domestic partnerships and civil unions.	0Business
The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.	13World
By MATT SEDENSKY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Fans of Anna Nicole Smith aren't making pilgrimages to the place where she spent her final days. They're not leaving flowers. They're not gathering in crowds to express their grief.	6Sci/Tech
AFP - Facing a issue that once tripped up his father, US President George W. Bush told adoring supporters that he likes broccoli. Part of it, anyway.	12U.S.
L'Armani Milano ha battuto a Bologna la VidiVici 81-78 (21-18, 45-43; 60-62) in gara 2 della semifin...	4Italia
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After yanking the red carpet out from under the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the union for striking Hollywood writers is deciding whether to picket the U.S. music industry's highest honors.	1Entertainment
Singer Robbie Williams' greatest-hits album will soon be released in UK music stores, and some phone shops, pre-loaded on a memory card.	6Sci/Tech
AP - Roger Clemens watched Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and the rest of the St. Louis sluggers dig into the batter's box and take big whacks at Busch Stadium.	8Sports
( InfoWorld ) - Singapore's Nex-G SystemsÂ is designing a WiMax base station based on an IBM processor, even though it's not the best chip for the job. But that doesn't worry Ronnie Persad, the company's chief executive officer. Nex-G is developing a reference design for a high-end WiMax base station that uses IBM's PowerPC 970 chip for the baseband processor. Nex-G began work on the design after shelving plans to use a PowerQUICC chip from Freescale Semiconductor that Persad admits is better suited to the application. The reference design is expected to be completed next year, he said. Nex-G opted for IBM's PowerPC chip after being approached by IBM and one of its distributors, Nu Horizons Electronics. IBM wanted a WiMax reference design based on the PowerPC and was willing to support Nex-G's development efforts, Persad said. Unlike Freescale's PowerQUICC chip, which packs the processor and chip set inside a single package, IBM's PowerPC processor requires an external chip set. That means Nex-G's WiMax base station will need three chips instead of one, which means the design will be slightly larger and consume more power, Persad said. It also means Nex-G will have to design a new motherboard. But Persad is betting IBM's support and industry connections will more than make up for the technical trade-offs associated with using the PowerPC processor. "IBM opens doors to us that we couldn't open ourselves," Persad said, speaking at the CommunicAsia exhibition. Nex-G has no intention of manufacturing WiMax base stations itself. Instead, the company will license its reference design to equipment makers through Nu Horizons. "We want to keep our focus on pure R&D, that's what we do best," Persad said.	6Sci/Tech
September 11th started out the same as any other Monday. I woke up and went to classes.	2Europe
FT.com - The US trade deficit narrowed as exports reached a record in April, according to fresh government figures that bode well for the American economy.	0Business
Local authorities are increasingly paying private contractors to provide municipal social services.	2Europe
Reuters - A week after leaving a 45-day rehab program, actress Lindsay Lohan has turned herself in to police to face charges of drunken driving in connection with a May car crash.	1Entertainment
AFP - British telecoms company Omnifone on Thursday launched MusicStation, a new music download service for mobile phone users in Sweden, beating Apple's iPhone to the global marketplace by two weeks.	2Europe
There is "enough evidence" against a man accused of murdering Robert McCartney for a crown court trial.	2Europe
The last time the Cardinals won a road game - now 19 attempts and more than two years ago â-rizona pulled out a dramatic win in the final minute and kicker Bill Gramatica was on the field.	8Sports
AP - President Bush handed out hugs to residents who survived killer tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia and offered encouraging words Saturday at Enterprise High School where students grieved the loss of eight classmates.	12U.S.
AP - Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.	1Entertainment
World leaders expressed their outrage Tuesday over death sentences handed down by a Libyan court against five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the HIV ... Comment	2Europe
AP - A former Nazi concentration camp guard whose appeal of a deportation order was turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court is not in good health and doesn't fully comprehend the legal issues, his lawyer said Tuesday.	13World
Nell'Ue-13 tasso al 7%, -0,1% su aprile	4Italia
The good news is that it's going to get better. The bad news is that it's going to get worse first. That pretty much sums up the price swings in the market for the commodity computer memory chips known as Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM.	6Sci/Tech
A quarter of all Net-connected PCs could become infected by Trojans, Vint Cerf tells World Economic Forum attendees.	6Sci/Tech
FT.com - The first, which lashed southern England with 100mph winds in the early hours of October 16, will forever be linked with the second, Black Monday three days later, when stock markets around the world collapsed.	0Business
PEORIA, Illinois (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he plans to submit a budget proposal for fiscal 2008 that would pave the way for the government to balance its budget BY 2012 while still keeping taxes low.	10Top News
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses the disappearing middle class.	0Business
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anti-Iraq war protesters briefly scuffled with police in Sydney on Thursday before the arrival of Vice President Dick Cheney, underlining divisions within one of Washington's firmest allies over the unpopular war.	10Top News
PC World - A new interface and expanded file format support are among the new development tools for Google's mobile phone operating system.	6Sci/Tech
Bigger iPods in January? Toshiba has unveiled what it claims is the world's most capacious 1.8in hard drive, a tiny unit that nonetheless packs in 100GB of unformatted storage space. To achieve that capacity, the company used perpendicular recording.âŠ	7Software and Developement
LONDON - For some writers who criticize Islam, bullet-proof glass, bodyguards, death threats and pseudonyms are a part of everyday life.	13World
Intel's first manufacturing facility for producing 45-nanometer processors in high volume will open in October in Chandler, Ariz.	6Sci/Tech
CLEVELAND - This squirrelly newcomer caused quite a stir at Jacobs Field. A brown squirrel ran onto the field in the bottom of the third inning Wednesday night and ran circles around the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians...	1Entertainment
AP - Congressional Democrats are looking at ways to strengthen open government laws and force the Bush administration to release more documents under the Freedom of Information Act.	13World
KABUL (Reuters) - The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election opened on Tuesday in what will be a major test of U.S.-led nation-building efforts since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban.	10Top News
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.	10Top News
Ecco i risultati della gara 3 delle semifinali dei play off per lo scudetto di baseball: - Tele...	4Italia
Andy Roddick surged into the third round of the Paris Masters with a 6-2, 6-2 rout of Armenia's Sargis Sargsian on Wednesday in his first match since late September.	8Sports
Charlotte rookie Emeka Okafor has nailed a pair of free throws with five second remaining in the match against the New Orleans Hornets, to hand the Bobcats a 94-93 overtime victory.	8Sports
The brother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley says he's heard his brother may have been handed over to a new group in Iraq. "I am getting communiques from dear friends of mine -- business friends and personal friends -- who are based in Kuwait .	13World
Parting with Syracuse and the Big East was such sweet sorrow for Boston College after the 17th-ranked Eagles, playing their final game as a Big East member, absorbed a ruinous 43-17 loss yesterday that prevented them from winning the conference title outright and clinching a Bowl Championship Series berth.	8Sports
Bill Mann suggests that CNBC's new management go for less glitz and more relevance to bring back viewers.	0Business
ERNIE ELS got the better of Thomas Bjorn to win his first World Golf Championship title yesterday and send sparring partner Tiger Woods a place further down the world rankings.	1Entertainment
Palermo, l'insegnante assolta dopo che aveva punito un bullo "Volevo che si rendesse conto di quello che aveva fatto non offenderlo" "Nessun pentimento ma non lo rifarei spero solo che quel ragazzo rifletta" di ALESSANDRA ZINITI (06:51 28/06/2007)	4Italia
Former Law and Order actor withdraws from the race for the Republican nomination	10Top News
JAKARTA -- Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in April 2005, sources said over the weekend.	1Entertainment
The former footballer Diego Maradona leaves Argentina for Cuba to receive ongoing treatment for drug addiction.	13World
The jeans were falling off the little boy who lay slumped in the arms of his father. Blood seeped from his lolling head. His eyes were closed.	13World
Eli Manning, the No. 1 pick in this year's N.F.L. draft, will make his first professional start on Thursday when the Giants take on the Carolina Panthers.	8Sports
A new Christian video game spurs boycott calls, with critics calling it "both the Inquisition and the Crusades".	6Sci/Tech
OPEC has stressed its view that high oil prices were a result of speculation and pledged to provide enough crude to calm global markets, while an energy research group warned prices could remain high for some time.	11Top Stories
Five-time winner Irina Slutskaya returned to the European championships and won the women's short program Friday with an innovative routine.	8Sports
Gruppo proveniva da campo militare di Arat	4Italia
By Will OremusSTAFF FOSTER CITY -- A local group's plans to give Foster City its first high school got their first official endorsement -- albeit a tentative one -- in a report from city staff released this week.	6Sci/Tech
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- The Green Bay Packers don't seem bothered by a left shoulder injury their star quarterback Brett Favre has been dealing with for two years.	8Sports
Software maker PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. in a $10.3 billion deal, ending one of the longest and nastiest takeover battles in recent corporate history.	11Top Stories
A Sun Microsystems executive expressed confidence that highly skilled workers in the Philippines and in Vietnam will make the two countries the center for the development of the Internet program Java in Southeast Asian.	6Sci/Tech
LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Yearâs by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.	0Business
Playbill - The U.S. premiere of British playwright Helen Edmundson's Mother Teresa is Dead will kick off the 33rd season of City Theatre in Pittsburgh Oct. 4.	1Entertainment
CHICAGO -- Chad Hutchinson, who was surfing in California a little more than two months ago, made his first Chicago start a memorable one yesterday, throwing three TD passes to lead the Bears past the Minnesota Vikings, 24-14. Minnesota (7-5) saw its playoff chances hurt for the second straight year by a late-season loss to the Bears.	8Sports
Rangers joined Celtic on the European scrapheap after a Bonaventure Kalou double fired Auxerre to a 2-0 victory at Ibrox last night.	8Sports
A man with a history of 128 motoring offences is jailed after driving a stolen car on a footpath in a police chase.	2Europe
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Fannie Mae is turning its focus to shoring up its capital levels Wednesday after two of its top executives left the company under pressure following an accounting scandal.	0Business
The January sales failed to help the UK High Street recover from a poor Christmas season, a survey by the British Retail Consortium finds.	0Business
Government unity seemed to crumble as the president proposed a new election and the Supreme Court heard complaints of fraud.	13World
The smuggler tantalized the young men with a promise to get them out of this fly-covered poverty of their town north of Cairo and transport them to a promised land of jobs and money in Italy.	2Europe
Il presidente del Brescia, Gino Corioni, dopo il blocco dei campionati seguito ai tragici incidenti ...	4Italia
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry criticized President Bush's proposal to recall up to 70,000 foreign troops Wednesday as a hastily announced plan that would raise more doubts about US intentions than it answered.	12U.S.
Google could help keep Yahoo away from Microsoft if it took over selling search ads for Yahoo in return for a very large check. That money could help finance all sorts of possible deals.	0Business
Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi troops took control of government and police buildings in Samarra early on Friday after insurgents had undermined security in the Iraqi city, the U.S. military said.	13World
Easyjet's shares yesterday soared 21pc after Icelandair bought an 8.4pc stake worth Â£33.5m in the budget airline. It follows weeks of market speculation about a possible	0Business
In a surprising turn of events, an unknown company placed the winning bid for the oil arm of Yukos at a much publicised auction in Moscow on Sunday.	11Top Stories
NURIA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces blew up two large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip Thursday, making scores of Palestinians homeless after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.	13World
Targeting gaming notebooks Intel is said to be preparing a pair of dual-core Core 2 Extreme processors specifically developed for gamer-friendly notebooks, the first coming in Q2/Q3, the second arriving as a follow-up in Q4.âŠ	7Software and Developement
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast moving brush fire sent flames leaping into backyards and forced more than 1,200 southern California residents out of their hillside homes on a sweltering Sunday of gusty winds after months of drought.	10Top News
SpaceShipOne, which is solely funded by Paul G. Allen, was designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites.	11Top Stories
Lo ha detto il direttore generale Strauss Kahn	4Italia
A "considerable number of new leads" have emerged in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to the latest report released Monday by a commission of U.N.-appointed investigators.	10Top News
Ryan Smyth, traded last week by the only N.H.L. team he ever loved, will become the new point man in a testy rivalry.	8Sports
NEW YORK (AFP) - Moves by Internet search giant Google to create a global virtual library could signal a communications revolution on a par with Johann Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.	6Sci/Tech
Pollution and deforestation in North Korea are exacerbating its serious food shortage problems, according to a UN report released Friday that outlines a range of environmental challenges facing Pyongyang.	1Entertainment
Russia's military prosecutor said Thursday that Human Rights Watch was mistaken in its accusations of widespread hazing in the military and said Russia had already made serious efforts to combat the problem.	13World
CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed the Sedin twins for another season. Henrik and Daniel Sedin each agreed to one-year deals with the Canucks on Friday.	8Sports
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Some U.S. military aid kept from Latin American nations that did not agree to exempt American troops from the International Criminal Court will start flowing again when President George W. Bush signs waivers, a senior defense official said on Sunday.	10Top News
Dartington Arts College in Totnes is to merge with University College Falmouth governors agree.	10Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday.	12U.S.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An attorney for Phil Spector told jurors on Thursday that the government's case was nothing but "stories" and asked they find the legendary music producer innocent of murdering a B-movie actress in 2003.	1Entertainment
Blue Alert by Anjani	5Music Feeds
While some in Congress made gaffes, police, businesses, and others are boning up on Muslim culture.	12U.S.
[World News]: Kabul, Oct.9 : Afghanistan's first democratic election has been thrown into confusion after it was announced that most presidential candidates were boycotting it.	1Entertainment
Ten people were killed in fighting between US Marines and rebels in Iraq's western city of Ramadi, local hospital officials said on Tuesday.	11Top Stories

A novel idea has been introduced by Mount Nittany Middle School that allows students to pick up bagel, muffin, cold cereal and fresh fruit from âgrab-and-goâ food cart parked near the principal's office.

1Entertainment

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of the most esteemed civil rights organizations, founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

8Sports

WASHINGTONJohn Kerry seized the offensive yesterday, fighting back against what his campaign calls a "smear attack" on his Vietnam record and pointing the finger of blame directly at President George W. Bush.

12U.S.

Un testo di intercettazione tra il segretario dei Ds e l'allora presidente di Unipol cosÃ¬ come sarebbe trascritta nella perizia depositata oggi al palazzo di giustizia di Milano Telefonata tra Fassino e Consorte "Con Abete sto abbottonatissimo" (15:38 11/06/2007)

4Italia

Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems North America Inc. filed protests with the Air Force Tuesday over a $4 billion contract to upgrade electronics on C-130 military transport planes awarded to Boeing Co. in 2001.

0Business

A child dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.

10Top News

People 2: Ashcroft 0

6Sci/Tech

LONDON (Reuters) - Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the owner of the Dubai stock exchange, is mulling a rival bid to Nasdaq's agreed $3.7 billion takeover of Nordic markets owner OMX , the Sunday Times reported.

0Business

FORMER Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was suspended today from playing soccer in England for seven months after failing a drugs test.

1Entertainment

The world's economic powers, which ended three days of meetings Sunday, insisted they are moving closer to a deal on debt relief for Iraq and other poor nations even though an agreement has proved elusive.

0Business

Wal-Mart Stores is expanding the definition of "immediate family" in its employee-ethics policy to account for laws in states that recognize domestic partnerships and civil unions.

0Business

The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.

13World

By MATT SEDENSKY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Fans of Anna Nicole Smith aren't making pilgrimages to the place where she spent her final days. They're not leaving flowers. They're not gathering in crowds to express their grief.

6Sci/Tech

AFP - Facing a issue that once tripped up his father, US President George W. Bush told adoring supporters that he likes broccoli. Part of it, anyway.

12U.S.

L'Armani Milano ha battuto a Bologna la VidiVici 81-78 (21-18, 45-43; 60-62) in gara 2 della semifin...

4Italia

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After yanking the red carpet out from under the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the union for striking Hollywood writers is deciding whether to picket the U.S. music industry's highest honors.

1Entertainment

Singer Robbie Williams' greatest-hits album will soon be released in UK music stores, and some phone shops, pre-loaded on a memory card.

6Sci/Tech

AP - Roger Clemens watched Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and the rest of the St. Louis sluggers dig into the batter's box and take big whacks at Busch Stadium.

8Sports

( InfoWorld ) - Singapore's Nex-G SystemsÂ is designing a WiMax base station based on an IBM processor, even though it's not the best chip for the job. But that doesn't worry Ronnie Persad, the company's chief executive officer. Nex-G is developing a reference design for a high-end WiMax base station that uses IBM's PowerPC 970 chip for the baseband processor. Nex-G began work on the design after shelving plans to use a PowerQUICC chip from Freescale Semiconductor that Persad admits is better suited to the application. The reference design is expected to be completed next year, he said. Nex-G opted for IBM's PowerPC chip after being approached by IBM and one of its distributors, Nu Horizons Electronics. IBM wanted a WiMax reference design based on the PowerPC and was willing to support Nex-G's development efforts, Persad said. Unlike Freescale's PowerQUICC chip, which packs the processor and chip set inside a single package, IBM's PowerPC processor requires an external chip set. That means Nex-G's WiMax base station will need three chips instead of one, which means the design will be slightly larger and consume more power, Persad said. It also means Nex-G will have to design a new motherboard. But Persad is betting IBM's support and industry connections will more than make up for the technical trade-offs associated with using the PowerPC processor. "IBM opens doors to us that we couldn't open ourselves," Persad said, speaking at the CommunicAsia exhibition. Nex-G has no intention of manufacturing WiMax base stations itself. Instead, the company will license its reference design to equipment makers through Nu Horizons. "We want to keep our focus on pure R&D, that's what we do best," Persad said.

6Sci/Tech

September 11th started out the same as any other Monday. I woke up and went to classes.

2Europe

FT.com - The US trade deficit narrowed as exports reached a record in April, according to fresh government figures that bode well for the American economy.

0Business

Local authorities are increasingly paying private contractors to provide municipal social services.

2Europe

Reuters - A week after leaving a 45-day rehab program, actress Lindsay Lohan has turned herself in to police to face charges of drunken driving in connection with a May car crash.

1Entertainment

AFP - British telecoms company Omnifone on Thursday launched MusicStation, a new music download service for mobile phone users in Sweden, beating Apple's iPhone to the global marketplace by two weeks.

2Europe

There is "enough evidence" against a man accused of murdering Robert McCartney for a crown court trial.

2Europe

The last time the Cardinals won a road game - now 19 attempts and more than two years ago â-rizona pulled out a dramatic win in the final minute and kicker Bill Gramatica was on the field.

8Sports

AP - President Bush handed out hugs to residents who survived killer tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia and offered encouraging words Saturday at Enterprise High School where students grieved the loss of eight classmates.

12U.S.

AP - Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

1Entertainment

World leaders expressed their outrage Tuesday over death sentences handed down by a Libyan court against five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the HIV ... Comment

2Europe

AP - A former Nazi concentration camp guard whose appeal of a deportation order was turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court is not in good health and doesn't fully comprehend the legal issues, his lawyer said Tuesday.

13World

Nell'Ue-13 tasso al 7%, -0,1% su aprile

4Italia

The good news is that it's going to get better. The bad news is that it's going to get worse first. That pretty much sums up the price swings in the market for the commodity computer memory chips known as Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM.

6Sci/Tech

A quarter of all Net-connected PCs could become infected by Trojans, Vint Cerf tells World Economic Forum attendees.

6Sci/Tech

FT.com - The first, which lashed southern England with 100mph winds in the early hours of October 16, will forever be linked with the second, Black Monday three days later, when stock markets around the world collapsed.

0Business

PEORIA, Illinois (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he plans to submit a budget proposal for fiscal 2008 that would pave the way for the government to balance its budget BY 2012 while still keeping taxes low.

10Top News

Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses the disappearing middle class.

0Business

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anti-Iraq war protesters briefly scuffled with police in Sydney on Thursday before the arrival of Vice President Dick Cheney, underlining divisions within one of Washington's firmest allies over the unpopular war.

10Top News

PC World - A new interface and expanded file format support are among the new development tools for Google's mobile phone operating system.

6Sci/Tech

Bigger iPods in January? Toshiba has unveiled what it claims is the world's most capacious 1.8in hard drive, a tiny unit that nonetheless packs in 100GB of unformatted storage space. To achieve that capacity, the company used perpendicular recording.âŠ

7Software and Developement

LONDON - For some writers who criticize Islam, bullet-proof glass, bodyguards, death threats and pseudonyms are a part of everyday life.

13World

Intel's first manufacturing facility for producing 45-nanometer processors in high volume will open in October in Chandler, Ariz.

6Sci/Tech

CLEVELAND - This squirrelly newcomer caused quite a stir at Jacobs Field. A brown squirrel ran onto the field in the bottom of the third inning Wednesday night and ran circles around the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians...

1Entertainment

AP - Congressional Democrats are looking at ways to strengthen open government laws and force the Bush administration to release more documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

13World

KABUL (Reuters) - The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election opened on Tuesday in what will be a major test of U.S.-led nation-building efforts since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban.

10Top News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.

10Top News

Ecco i risultati della gara 3 delle semifinali dei play off per lo scudetto di baseball: - Tele...

4Italia

Andy Roddick surged into the third round of the Paris Masters with a 6-2, 6-2 rout of Armenia's Sargis Sargsian on Wednesday in his first match since late September.

8Sports

Charlotte rookie Emeka Okafor has nailed a pair of free throws with five second remaining in the match against the New Orleans Hornets, to hand the Bobcats a 94-93 overtime victory.

8Sports

The brother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley says he's heard his brother may have been handed over to a new group in Iraq. "I am getting communiques from dear friends of mine -- business friends and personal friends -- who are based in Kuwait .

13World

Parting with Syracuse and the Big East was such sweet sorrow for Boston College after the 17th-ranked Eagles, playing their final game as a Big East member, absorbed a ruinous 43-17 loss yesterday that prevented them from winning the conference title outright and clinching a Bowl Championship Series berth.

8Sports

Bill Mann suggests that CNBC's new management go for less glitz and more relevance to bring back viewers.

0Business

ERNIE ELS got the better of Thomas Bjorn to win his first World Golf Championship title yesterday and send sparring partner Tiger Woods a place further down the world rankings.

1Entertainment

Palermo, l'insegnante assolta dopo che aveva punito un bullo "Volevo che si rendesse conto di quello che aveva fatto non offenderlo" "Nessun pentimento ma non lo rifarei spero solo che quel ragazzo rifletta" di ALESSANDRA ZINITI (06:51 28/06/2007)

4Italia

Former Law and Order actor withdraws from the race for the Republican nomination

10Top News

JAKARTA -- Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in April 2005, sources said over the weekend.

1Entertainment

The former footballer Diego Maradona leaves Argentina for Cuba to receive ongoing treatment for drug addiction.

13World

The jeans were falling off the little boy who lay slumped in the arms of his father. Blood seeped from his lolling head. His eyes were closed.

13World

Eli Manning, the No. 1 pick in this year's N.F.L. draft, will make his first professional start on Thursday when the Giants take on the Carolina Panthers.

8Sports

A new Christian video game spurs boycott calls, with critics calling it "both the Inquisition and the Crusades".

6Sci/Tech

OPEC has stressed its view that high oil prices were a result of speculation and pledged to provide enough crude to calm global markets, while an energy research group warned prices could remain high for some time.

11Top Stories

Five-time winner Irina Slutskaya returned to the European championships and won the women's short program Friday with an innovative routine.

8Sports

Gruppo proveniva da campo militare di Arat

4Italia

By Will OremusSTAFF FOSTER CITY -- A local group's plans to give Foster City its first high school got their first official endorsement -- albeit a tentative one -- in a report from city staff released this week.

6Sci/Tech

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin -- The Green Bay Packers don't seem bothered by a left shoulder injury their star quarterback Brett Favre has been dealing with for two years.

8Sports

Software maker PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. in a $10.3 billion deal, ending one of the longest and nastiest takeover battles in recent corporate history.

11Top Stories

A Sun Microsystems executive expressed confidence that highly skilled workers in the Philippines and in Vietnam will make the two countries the center for the development of the Internet program Java in Southeast Asian.

6Sci/Tech

LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Yearâs by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

0Business

Playbill - The U.S. premiere of British playwright Helen Edmundson's Mother Teresa is Dead will kick off the 33rd season of City Theatre in Pittsburgh Oct. 4.

1Entertainment

CHICAGO -- Chad Hutchinson, who was surfing in California a little more than two months ago, made his first Chicago start a memorable one yesterday, throwing three TD passes to lead the Bears past the Minnesota Vikings, 24-14. Minnesota (7-5) saw its playoff chances hurt for the second straight year by a late-season loss to the Bears.

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Rangers joined Celtic on the European scrapheap after a Bonaventure Kalou double fired Auxerre to a 2-0 victory at Ibrox last night.

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A man with a history of 128 motoring offences is jailed after driving a stolen car on a footpath in a police chase.

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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Fannie Mae is turning its focus to shoring up its capital levels Wednesday after two of its top executives left the company under pressure following an accounting scandal.

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The January sales failed to help the UK High Street recover from a poor Christmas season, a survey by the British Retail Consortium finds.

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Government unity seemed to crumble as the president proposed a new election and the Supreme Court heard complaints of fraud.

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The smuggler tantalized the young men with a promise to get them out of this fly-covered poverty of their town north of Cairo and transport them to a promised land of jobs and money in Italy.

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Il presidente del Brescia, Gino Corioni, dopo il blocco dei campionati seguito ai tragici incidenti ...

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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry criticized President Bush's proposal to recall up to 70,000 foreign troops Wednesday as a hastily announced plan that would raise more doubts about US intentions than it answered.

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Google could help keep Yahoo away from Microsoft if it took over selling search ads for Yahoo in return for a very large check. That money could help finance all sorts of possible deals.

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Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi troops took control of government and police buildings in Samarra early on Friday after insurgents had undermined security in the Iraqi city, the U.S. military said.

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Easyjet's shares yesterday soared 21pc after Icelandair bought an 8.4pc stake worth Â£33.5m in the budget airline. It follows weeks of market speculation about a possible

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In a surprising turn of events, an unknown company placed the winning bid for the oil arm of Yukos at a much publicised auction in Moscow on Sunday.

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NURIA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces blew up two large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip Thursday, making scores of Palestinians homeless after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.

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Targeting gaming notebooks Intel is said to be preparing a pair of dual-core Core 2 Extreme processors specifically developed for gamer-friendly notebooks, the first coming in Q2/Q3, the second arriving as a follow-up in Q4.âŠ

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast moving brush fire sent flames leaping into backyards and forced more than 1,200 southern California residents out of their hillside homes on a sweltering Sunday of gusty winds after months of drought.

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SpaceShipOne, which is solely funded by Paul G. Allen, was designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites.

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Lo ha detto il direttore generale Strauss Kahn

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A "considerable number of new leads" have emerged in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to the latest report released Monday by a commission of U.N.-appointed investigators.

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Ryan Smyth, traded last week by the only N.H.L. team he ever loved, will become the new point man in a testy rivalry.

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NEW YORK (AFP) - Moves by Internet search giant Google to create a global virtual library could signal a communications revolution on a par with Johann Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.

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Pollution and deforestation in North Korea are exacerbating its serious food shortage problems, according to a UN report released Friday that outlines a range of environmental challenges facing Pyongyang.

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Russia's military prosecutor said Thursday that Human Rights Watch was mistaken in its accusations of widespread hazing in the military and said Russia had already made serious efforts to combat the problem.

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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed the Sedin twins for another season. Henrik and Daniel Sedin each agreed to one-year deals with the Canucks on Friday.

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Some U.S. military aid kept from Latin American nations that did not agree to exempt American troops from the International Criminal Court will start flowing again when President George W. Bush signs waivers, a senior defense official said on Sunday.

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Dartington Arts College in Totnes is to merge with University College Falmouth governors agree.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An attorney for Phil Spector told jurors on Thursday that the government's case was nothing but "stories" and asked they find the legendary music producer innocent of murdering a B-movie actress in 2003.

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While some in Congress made gaffes, police, businesses, and others are boning up on Muslim culture.

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[World News]: Kabul, Oct.9 : Afghanistan's first democratic election has been thrown into confusion after it was announced that most presidential candidates were boycotting it.

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Ten people were killed in fighting between US Marines and rebels in Iraq's western city of Ramadi, local hospital officials said on Tuesday.

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