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A LATHAM victory would not affect the willingness of the United States to support the free trade agreement, federal Trade Minister Mark Vaile conceded yesterday.	11Top Stories
Philippine floods and landslides killed 32 people and left more than 100 towns under water or buried, Agence France-Presse reported, citing civil defense officials.	13World
Per disaffezione nei riguardi dei medici	4Italia
NEW YORK (Reuters) - FedEx Corp. FDX.N , the world's top air-express shipper, on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on strong growth in its international, ground and freight services.	0Business
President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales for US attorney general demands the Senate meet its responsibility to put his troubling legal stands under a microscope.	11Top Stories
AP - A woman told investigators that she was trying to warm her feet by lighting a dollar bill on fire when the blaze spread through an apartment building and killed four people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.	12U.S.
Few campaigns in post-war American history have appeared to be as divisive as the one drawing to its still uncertain conclusion on Tuesday.	11Top Stories
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. youngsters aged 14 to 18 who work at retail and service jobs during the school year put in an average of 16 hours a week, often at jobs that are dangerous and unsupervised, a study said on Monday.	3Health
Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri appealed for two abducted Indonesian women to be freed by an Iraqi group that's demanding the release of a Muslim cleric detained in Jakarta.	11Top Stories
The state will be the first in recent years to notify residents of the misuse of their Social Security numbers.	12U.S.
Have Wi-Fi, can call via VoIP Review VoIP may be revolutionising the telecoms industry by allowing us to make free calls with little more than a broadband connection and computer, but it's also tying us to our PCs. If you'd rather spend more time talking than being tied to a machine, a Wi-Fi phone like the EnGenius SI-680H will help you cut the cord.âŠ	7Software and Developement
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber set off explosives in front of the Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding 42, the Afghan government said.	13World
BAGHDAD, June 10 -- A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter, according to an Anbar tribal leader and a U.S. military official familiar with tribal...	13World
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., (Reuters) - Bernhard Langer said he would consider staying on as European Ryder Cup captain after guiding them to a record victory over the U.S.	8Sports
Money owed to HM Revenue and Customs could be taken automatically from bank accounts, under new plans.	10Top News
Renault F1 Team driver Fernando Alonso has been named as the latest ambassador for the UNICEF Spanish Committee, working for childrenâs rights.	8Sports
(National-NBC) Sept. 21,2004 - In studies of more than 10,000 people with diabetes researchers found that higher levels of blood sugar increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.	3Health
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Websense, Inc. , has discovered that the official Web site of Dolphin Stadium has been compromised with malicious code.	6Sci/Tech
ANCASTER, Ontario (Reuters) - Jim Furyk took advantage of ideal scoring conditions to card a sizzling error-free seven-under 63 and grab the early first round lead at the Canadian Open on Thursday.	8Sports
Palm plans to close its retail stores in an effort to focus on fewer programs and better compete, the company said on Thursday. All of Palm's eight branded retail stores, as well as its 26 stores within Airport Wireless shops, will close. The move may stem from increased competition from Research In Motion's BlackBerry products. Prior to about a year ago, BlackBerry dominated the enterprise market and Palm was popular among prosumers, who typically buy devices in retail outlets, said Bill Hughes, an analyst at In-Stat. But since then, BlackBerry has grown more successful at selling its handhelds at retail, encroaching on Palm's traditional prosumer market, he said. The stores didn't make much sense for Palm from the beginning, according to Hughes. "This doesn't really surprise me," he said. Usually, manufacturers open their own stores when their retail distribution strategy isn't working, he said. But Palm has reported a string of quarterly losses and may have decided to close the stores and boost its efforts to sell through other retail outlets as a way to cut costs. Palm said the store closings come as the company continues to focus on core business initiatives, consolidating resources behind fewer programs. For a similar reason, it cancelled its controversial smartphone companion product, the Foleo , that was scheduled for release in the middle of 2007. Palm has struggled over the past couple of years as the smartphone market grows increasingly crowded, and as it tries to phase out its PDA (personal digital assistant) business. The company is building a new Linux-based operating system that is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, with commercial products hitting the market shortly after. The software, which many thought would hit the market at the end of last year, will compete with Google's Android Linux-based smartphone operating system . Phones based on Android are expected to ship starting in the second half of this year.	6Sci/Tech
PageSix - Jamie Foxx does a great Bill Cosby. As fans of his standup comedy know, Foxx can also do a mean Mike Tyson and a hilarious, shaky Ronald Reagan.	1Entertainment
Two activists who boarded a Japanese whaling ship to protest are taken into custody, officials confirm.	2Europe
Medical practitioners raise concerns about a new breed of videogame that would allow users to control gameplay using thoughts alone.	6Sci/Tech
The GOP presidential hopeful has often defied his party and colleagues to chart his own course.	12U.S.
Blog: Microsoft wants to pick and choose which open-source licenses it will respect. Nope, says the Free Software Foundation.	6Sci/Tech
The largest shareholder of Yukos says it will sue whoever buys the oil's firm main production unit, put up for sale against its will.	0Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. launched Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, unveiling the first major upgrade of its dominant operating system in five years and predicting that over 200 million people will run new Windows, Office or PC server software by the end of 2007.	0Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a report considered crucial to U.S. strategy in the highly unpopular war in Iraq, the top U.S. commander there is expected to tell Congress on Monday that U.S. troop levels should not be cut deeply.	12U.S.
James Brown underwent successful surgery Wednesday to treat his recently diagnosed prostate cancer, reports The Associated Press. ``Mr.	3Health
Chiesto giudizio per assenza misure idonee a difesa base	4Italia
Per migliorare la qualita' di produzione del gruppo	4Italia
Il Milan sarebbe pronto a offrire al Barcellona 50 milioni di euro per arrivare a Eto'o. Lo scrive i...	4Italia
Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik threatens to sue an Indian family for alleging he married their daughter.	13World
Houston's Nate Jaqua and Joseph Ngwenya each have a goal and an assist to spoil Juan Carlos Osorio's coaching debut for the Chicago Fire in the Dynamo's 4-0 win.	8Sports
SINGUR, India (Reuters) - It was his grandfather's land, his father's land and then the land that he shared with his five brothers.	1Entertainment
Video shows Airbus-320 landing at very high speed before crashing into buildings killing all 186 on board.	10Top News
Reuters - A U.S. diplomat who heads to Pyongyang this week trying to push forward a stalled nuclear deal said on Tuesday that North Korea must give a complete account of its atomic arms program.	13World
As they wait to nab an iPhone, early risers across the country are seeking to share their experience in real time.	6Sci/Tech
AP - The co-pilot of a jet that crashed in August, killing everyone else on board, was released from a rehabilitation hospital Friday.	12U.S.
Jacque Jones sat facing his stall in the Minnesota clubhouse Saturday night, about a half hour after the Twins were eliminated from the playoffs by the New York Yankees for the second straight year.	11Top Stories
Iraq's prime minister issues a "final call" to cleric Moqtada Sadr to end the stand-off in Najaf as new clashes erupt.	13World
Researchers have successfully blocked HIV transmission in monkeys with an experimental drug in the form of a topical cream or gel.	11Top Stories
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices held just below the $47 mark on Monday as Iraq resumed exports from both its northern and southern outlets after lengthy disruption, despite fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf.	0Business
General Growth Properties is going mall shopping, as it announced plans Friday to buy shopping mall owner The Rouse Co.	0Business
AP - San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was expected to start for the San Diego Chargers against undefeated New England in the AFC championship game Sunday despite being slowed by a sprained right knee.	8Sports
Read full story for latest details.	10Top News
Post KRRISH, PHIR HERA PHERI, LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI and now DHOOM 2, sequels are considered lucrative propositions at the box-office.	1Entertainment
President Bush today signed the bill that will revamp the country's intelligence community more dramatically than any measure in more than a half-century.	1Entertainment
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency government on Sunday in a move that could bolster him in his power struggle with Islamist Hamas rivals by ending a U.S.-led aid embargo.	10Top News
The Palestinian prime minister promised today to make public the cause of Yasser Arafatâs death as an emissary was sent to Paris to pick up his medical records.	13World
Tony Azevedo and Jesse Smith score three goals each to lead the U.S. to a 9-8 upset of Italy on Sunday for seventh place in the Olympic water polo competition.	8Sports
Malcolm Glazer, the American business mogul and owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is preparing a fresh assault on Manchester United having informally approached the board of the Premiership football club last week.	11Top Stories
If we published newspapers like Sheila Copps writes books, we'd have been out of business a long time ago. In this business, we are obliged to write fact, not fiction.	3Health
LONDON (Reuters) - Perhaps the Williams sisters have got it right after all.	8Sports
Ebay Inc. is "outraged" at the arrest of Avnish Bajaj, the chief executive officer of the company's Baazee.com subsidiary in India, the company said in a statement issued on Sunday.	1Entertainment
Lingerie items have become âdisplay pieces,â and corsets, slips, panties and camisoles are as extravagant in their design as Louboutin platforms or a YSL tote.	1Entertainment
Speculation spreads that China's biggest computer maker will buy IBM's PC business. Also: Clinton attends launch of Chinese search engine powered by AI & hellip;. A new DVD can play on old and new HD technology & hellip;. and more.	0Business
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton wants YouTube viewers to pick her campaign theme song — and the response, so far, has been music to her ears.	12U.S.
Un barcone, avvistato da un peschereccio, Ãš arrivato al porto Ieri due naufragi tra Africa e Sicilia: 5 morti, tra cui un bimbo Lampedusa, nuovo sbarco: 260 migranti Centro di prima accoglienza al collasso (08:35 19/07/2007)	4Italia
In a multiple birth, a troubling calculation of the odds.	1Entertainment
PalmOne Inc. on Monday swung to a quarterly profit from a year-earlier loss on a 62 percent jump in revenue, spurred by solid sales of its Treo 600 mobile phone and other handheld digital devices.	0Business
Sono queste le due novitÃ dal ritiro azzurro di Coverciano alla vigilia del match in programma domani a Parma contro la Bielorussia. Il commissario tecnico Marcello Lippi ha annunciato l'avvicendamento al centro della difesa tra Materazzi e Cannavaro.	4Italia
Jeff Cunningham scores in the first half and Columbus extends its MLS-record unbeaten streak to 17 games with a 1-1 tie against the MetroStars on Saturday night.	8Sports
Ma ci sono rischi per l'inflazione, dice commissario Almunia	4Italia
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun Feb. 15--Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.	6Sci/Tech
AFP - Freed BBC reporter Alan Johnston's elderly parents said Wednesday their "living nightmare" was over, as his employers and the British government hailed the end of his four-month kidnap ordeal at the hands of militants in the Gaza Strip.	13World
AP - President Bush overlooked a flip-flop of his own when he boasted Wednesday about launching the Homeland Security Department: He was against it before he was for it. John Kerry told Americans he has a health care plan that covers all of them, when he doesn't.	13World
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia rejected Friday U.S. criticism of religious constraints in the kingdom, saying the cradle of Islam had a duty to uphold its own faith.	13World
Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.	10Top News
Questi i risultati delle gare di Interleague di baseball Usa giocate nella notte italiana. Pitt...	4Italia
The group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Thursday it carried out a shooting attack that killed a US civilian official near Baghdad's Green Zone government compound.	11Top Stories
DETROIT -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland wasn't breaking new ground when he ordered David Ortiz to be intentionally walked three times last night.	8Sports
AP - The e-mail to ABC executive Jeffrey Bader from an old college friend leveled a complaint that had nothing to do with the network.	1Entertainment
A central Minnesota man in his 50s, with an underlying chronic disease, has died after being infected with the West Nile virus. His death is the first related to West Nile virus to be reported in Minnesota in 2004.	3Health
A Francis Bacon painting sells for more than Â£26m at auction, but fails to set a new record for the artist.	1Entertainment
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched their biggest air strike in Iraq since at least 2006 on Thursday, bombarding date palm groves on Baghdad's southern outskirts with more than 40,000 pounds of bombs in a matter of minutes.	10Top News
AP - Suddenly, Louisville's early season struggles seem a long time ago.	8Sports
THE rapid spread of fear that can cause crush injuries and serious accidents in crowds could be provoked by an innate reaction to body language, a provocative new study has found.	6Sci/Tech
LONDON (Reuters) - The brother of a British hostage in Iraq said Saturday intelligence officers had raided his Dutch home, copied data from his computer and forced him to make a five-page statement about his activities.	13World
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Factors such as gender, age and overall health may help predict which people with early Parkinson's disease will experience hallucinations, sleepiness or swelling, a new study says.	3Health
_ The protocol obliges industrialized countries to cut or limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.	11Top Stories
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mats Sundin scored his 20th goal of the season to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-1 win over the Rangers in New York on Wednesday.	8Sports
US security company Blackwater denies allegations that its staff smuggled weapons into Iraq.	2Europe
The Phillies have reportedly settled on former Indians manager Charlie Manuel to become the team's 50th skipper, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site Wednesday night.	11Top Stories
Prime Minister Gordon Brown uses his New Year message to say there will be "real and serious changes" in 2008.	10Top News
Grande prestazione dei lombardi che battono 3-1 la Reggina. Nel primo tempo gol di Stankevicius e Martinez; Zamboni accorcia, Caracciolo chiude. REGGIO CALABRIA, 5 novembre 2004 - A suo modo una lezione di calcio.	4Italia
The nation's top healthcare official, Tommy G. Thompson, announced yesterday that the federal government had found 5 million doses of flu vaccine in Germany	1Entertainment
NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - First Lady Laura Bush said on Thursday that her husband has long consultations with advisers before making decisions, disputing a recent report that he sometimes relies primarily on gut instincts.	10Top News
Botteda orbi a New York nel finale della sfida tra i Knicks e Denver. Un fallo della guardia di New ...	4Italia
Blog: Company hopes to improve upon existing toolbars already on the market.	6Sci/Tech
Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his ...	2Europe
ROME (Reuters) - Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of the imperial capital in what is being billed as the world's biggest computer simulation of an ancient city.	6Sci/Tech
com. Using 90nm processes and AntiVirusNX technology, Transmeta claims it's the first low-power x86-based processor to provide hardware support for the anti-virus protection enabled by XP's SP2.	6Sci/Tech
La piccola, 5 anni e mezzo, era sparita il 31 luglio vicino alla piscina di Appenzello Il cadavere era stato dissotterrato dagli animali. Ignote per ora le cause della morte Svizzera, per Ylenia speranze finite il corpo della bimba trovato in un bosco La scoperta in un luogo giÃ passato al setaccio dalla polizia un mese fa a trecento metri dal furgoncino del presunto omicida che poi si Ãš suicidato (21:49 15/09/2007)	4Italia
The New England Patriots set an N.F.L. record for consecutive wins, counting playoffs, with plenty of help from the winless Miami Dolphins.	8Sports
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Guatemalan illegal immigrant Gladys sat down last week with her three daughters to draw up a business card for a cleaning service she plans to set up.	10Top News
GCI offers commission-free online trading in shares, indices and major currencies. Register today for a free demo account - including charts, quotes and internet trading software.	10Top News
Recreational anglers may be responsible for landing nearly 25 percent of over-fished salt water species caught off US coasts, a study released on Thursday suggests.	6Sci/Tech
Djorkaeff, 36, left Bolton Wanderers and the end of last season and becomes Mark Hughes's first signing after he succeeded Graeme Souness as manager earlier this month.	11Top Stories
FRANKFURT, Germany A referee in Germany is apologizing to fans, after admitting that he manipulated the outcomes of several soccer games.	2Europe

A LATHAM victory would not affect the willingness of the United States to support the free trade agreement, federal Trade Minister Mark Vaile conceded yesterday.

11Top Stories

Philippine floods and landslides killed 32 people and left more than 100 towns under water or buried, Agence France-Presse reported, citing civil defense officials.

13World

Per disaffezione nei riguardi dei medici

4Italia

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FedEx Corp. FDX.N , the world's top air-express shipper, on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on strong growth in its international, ground and freight services.

0Business

President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales for US attorney general demands the Senate meet its responsibility to put his troubling legal stands under a microscope.

11Top Stories

AP - A woman told investigators that she was trying to warm her feet by lighting a dollar bill on fire when the blaze spread through an apartment building and killed four people, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

12U.S.

Few campaigns in post-war American history have appeared to be as divisive as the one drawing to its still uncertain conclusion on Tuesday.

11Top Stories

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. youngsters aged 14 to 18 who work at retail and service jobs during the school year put in an average of 16 hours a week, often at jobs that are dangerous and unsupervised, a study said on Monday.

3Health

Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri appealed for two abducted Indonesian women to be freed by an Iraqi group that's demanding the release of a Muslim cleric detained in Jakarta.

11Top Stories

The state will be the first in recent years to notify residents of the misuse of their Social Security numbers.

12U.S.

Have Wi-Fi, can call via VoIP Review VoIP may be revolutionising the telecoms industry by allowing us to make free calls with little more than a broadband connection and computer, but it's also tying us to our PCs. If you'd rather spend more time talking than being tied to a machine, a Wi-Fi phone like the EnGenius SI-680H will help you cut the cord.âŠ

7Software and Developement

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber set off explosives in front of the Interior Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding 42, the Afghan government said.

13World

BAGHDAD, June 10 -- A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter, according to an Anbar tribal leader and a U.S. military official familiar with tribal...

13World

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., (Reuters) - Bernhard Langer said he would consider staying on as European Ryder Cup captain after guiding them to a record victory over the U.S.

8Sports

Money owed to HM Revenue and Customs could be taken automatically from bank accounts, under new plans.

10Top News

Renault F1 Team driver Fernando Alonso has been named as the latest ambassador for the UNICEF Spanish Committee, working for childrenâs rights.

8Sports

(National-NBC) Sept. 21,2004 - In studies of more than 10,000 people with diabetes researchers found that higher levels of blood sugar increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

3Health

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Websense, Inc. , has discovered that the official Web site of Dolphin Stadium has been compromised with malicious code.

6Sci/Tech

ANCASTER, Ontario (Reuters) - Jim Furyk took advantage of ideal scoring conditions to card a sizzling error-free seven-under 63 and grab the early first round lead at the Canadian Open on Thursday.

8Sports

Palm plans to close its retail stores in an effort to focus on fewer programs and better compete, the company said on Thursday. All of Palm's eight branded retail stores, as well as its 26 stores within Airport Wireless shops, will close. The move may stem from increased competition from Research In Motion's BlackBerry products. Prior to about a year ago, BlackBerry dominated the enterprise market and Palm was popular among prosumers, who typically buy devices in retail outlets, said Bill Hughes, an analyst at In-Stat. But since then, BlackBerry has grown more successful at selling its handhelds at retail, encroaching on Palm's traditional prosumer market, he said. The stores didn't make much sense for Palm from the beginning, according to Hughes. "This doesn't really surprise me," he said. Usually, manufacturers open their own stores when their retail distribution strategy isn't working, he said. But Palm has reported a string of quarterly losses and may have decided to close the stores and boost its efforts to sell through other retail outlets as a way to cut costs. Palm said the store closings come as the company continues to focus on core business initiatives, consolidating resources behind fewer programs. For a similar reason, it cancelled its controversial smartphone companion product, the Foleo , that was scheduled for release in the middle of 2007. Palm has struggled over the past couple of years as the smartphone market grows increasingly crowded, and as it tries to phase out its PDA (personal digital assistant) business. The company is building a new Linux-based operating system that is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, with commercial products hitting the market shortly after. The software, which many thought would hit the market at the end of last year, will compete with Google's Android Linux-based smartphone operating system . Phones based on Android are expected to ship starting in the second half of this year.

6Sci/Tech

PageSix - Jamie Foxx does a great Bill Cosby. As fans of his standup comedy know, Foxx can also do a mean Mike Tyson and a hilarious, shaky Ronald Reagan.

1Entertainment

Two activists who boarded a Japanese whaling ship to protest are taken into custody, officials confirm.

2Europe

Medical practitioners raise concerns about a new breed of videogame that would allow users to control gameplay using thoughts alone.

6Sci/Tech

The GOP presidential hopeful has often defied his party and colleagues to chart his own course.

12U.S.

Blog: Microsoft wants to pick and choose which open-source licenses it will respect. Nope, says the Free Software Foundation.

6Sci/Tech

The largest shareholder of Yukos says it will sue whoever buys the oil's firm main production unit, put up for sale against its will.

0Business

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. launched Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, unveiling the first major upgrade of its dominant operating system in five years and predicting that over 200 million people will run new Windows, Office or PC server software by the end of 2007.

0Business

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a report considered crucial to U.S. strategy in the highly unpopular war in Iraq, the top U.S. commander there is expected to tell Congress on Monday that U.S. troop levels should not be cut deeply.

12U.S.

James Brown underwent successful surgery Wednesday to treat his recently diagnosed prostate cancer, reports The Associated Press. ``Mr.

3Health

Chiesto giudizio per assenza misure idonee a difesa base

4Italia

Per migliorare la qualita' di produzione del gruppo

4Italia

Il Milan sarebbe pronto a offrire al Barcellona 50 milioni di euro per arrivare a Eto'o. Lo scrive i...

4Italia

Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik threatens to sue an Indian family for alleging he married their daughter.

13World

Houston's Nate Jaqua and Joseph Ngwenya each have a goal and an assist to spoil Juan Carlos Osorio's coaching debut for the Chicago Fire in the Dynamo's 4-0 win.

8Sports

SINGUR, India (Reuters) - It was his grandfather's land, his father's land and then the land that he shared with his five brothers.

1Entertainment

Video shows Airbus-320 landing at very high speed before crashing into buildings killing all 186 on board.

10Top News

Reuters - A U.S. diplomat who heads to Pyongyang this week trying to push forward a stalled nuclear deal said on Tuesday that North Korea must give a complete account of its atomic arms program.

13World

As they wait to nab an iPhone, early risers across the country are seeking to share their experience in real time.

6Sci/Tech

AP - The co-pilot of a jet that crashed in August, killing everyone else on board, was released from a rehabilitation hospital Friday.

12U.S.

Jacque Jones sat facing his stall in the Minnesota clubhouse Saturday night, about a half hour after the Twins were eliminated from the playoffs by the New York Yankees for the second straight year.

11Top Stories

Iraq's prime minister issues a "final call" to cleric Moqtada Sadr to end the stand-off in Najaf as new clashes erupt.

13World

Researchers have successfully blocked HIV transmission in monkeys with an experimental drug in the form of a topical cream or gel.

11Top Stories

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices held just below the $47 mark on Monday as Iraq resumed exports from both its northern and southern outlets after lengthy disruption, despite fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf.

0Business

General Growth Properties is going mall shopping, as it announced plans Friday to buy shopping mall owner The Rouse Co.

0Business

AP - San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was expected to start for the San Diego Chargers against undefeated New England in the AFC championship game Sunday despite being slowed by a sprained right knee.

8Sports

Read full story for latest details.

10Top News

Post KRRISH, PHIR HERA PHERI, LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI and now DHOOM 2, sequels are considered lucrative propositions at the box-office.

1Entertainment

President Bush today signed the bill that will revamp the country's intelligence community more dramatically than any measure in more than a half-century.

1Entertainment

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency government on Sunday in a move that could bolster him in his power struggle with Islamist Hamas rivals by ending a U.S.-led aid embargo.

10Top News

The Palestinian prime minister promised today to make public the cause of Yasser Arafatâs death as an emissary was sent to Paris to pick up his medical records.

13World

Tony Azevedo and Jesse Smith score three goals each to lead the U.S. to a 9-8 upset of Italy on Sunday for seventh place in the Olympic water polo competition.

8Sports

Malcolm Glazer, the American business mogul and owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is preparing a fresh assault on Manchester United having informally approached the board of the Premiership football club last week.

11Top Stories

If we published newspapers like Sheila Copps writes books, we'd have been out of business a long time ago. In this business, we are obliged to write fact, not fiction.

3Health

LONDON (Reuters) - Perhaps the Williams sisters have got it right after all.

8Sports

Ebay Inc. is "outraged" at the arrest of Avnish Bajaj, the chief executive officer of the company's Baazee.com subsidiary in India, the company said in a statement issued on Sunday.

1Entertainment

Lingerie items have become âdisplay pieces,â and corsets, slips, panties and camisoles are as extravagant in their design as Louboutin platforms or a YSL tote.

1Entertainment

Speculation spreads that China's biggest computer maker will buy IBM's PC business. Also: Clinton attends launch of Chinese search engine powered by AI & hellip;. A new DVD can play on old and new HD technology & hellip;. and more.

0Business

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton wants YouTube viewers to pick her campaign theme song — and the response, so far, has been music to her ears.

12U.S.

Un barcone, avvistato da un peschereccio, Ãš arrivato al porto Ieri due naufragi tra Africa e Sicilia: 5 morti, tra cui un bimbo Lampedusa, nuovo sbarco: 260 migranti Centro di prima accoglienza al collasso (08:35 19/07/2007)

4Italia

In a multiple birth, a troubling calculation of the odds.

1Entertainment

PalmOne Inc. on Monday swung to a quarterly profit from a year-earlier loss on a 62 percent jump in revenue, spurred by solid sales of its Treo 600 mobile phone and other handheld digital devices.

0Business

Sono queste le due novitÃ dal ritiro azzurro di Coverciano alla vigilia del match in programma domani a Parma contro la Bielorussia. Il commissario tecnico Marcello Lippi ha annunciato l'avvicendamento al centro della difesa tra Materazzi e Cannavaro.

4Italia

Jeff Cunningham scores in the first half and Columbus extends its MLS-record unbeaten streak to 17 games with a 1-1 tie against the MetroStars on Saturday night.

8Sports

Ma ci sono rischi per l'inflazione, dice commissario Almunia

4Italia

By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun Feb. 15--Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

6Sci/Tech

AFP - Freed BBC reporter Alan Johnston's elderly parents said Wednesday their "living nightmare" was over, as his employers and the British government hailed the end of his four-month kidnap ordeal at the hands of militants in the Gaza Strip.

13World

AP - President Bush overlooked a flip-flop of his own when he boasted Wednesday about launching the Homeland Security Department: He was against it before he was for it. John Kerry told Americans he has a health care plan that covers all of them, when he doesn't.

13World

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia rejected Friday U.S. criticism of religious constraints in the kingdom, saying the cradle of Islam had a duty to uphold its own faith.

13World

Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.

10Top News

Questi i risultati delle gare di Interleague di baseball Usa giocate nella notte italiana. Pitt...

4Italia

The group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Thursday it carried out a shooting attack that killed a US civilian official near Baghdad's Green Zone government compound.

11Top Stories

DETROIT -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland wasn't breaking new ground when he ordered David Ortiz to be intentionally walked three times last night.

8Sports

AP - The e-mail to ABC executive Jeffrey Bader from an old college friend leveled a complaint that had nothing to do with the network.

1Entertainment

A central Minnesota man in his 50s, with an underlying chronic disease, has died after being infected with the West Nile virus. His death is the first related to West Nile virus to be reported in Minnesota in 2004.

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A Francis Bacon painting sells for more than Â£26m at auction, but fails to set a new record for the artist.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched their biggest air strike in Iraq since at least 2006 on Thursday, bombarding date palm groves on Baghdad's southern outskirts with more than 40,000 pounds of bombs in a matter of minutes.

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AP - Suddenly, Louisville's early season struggles seem a long time ago.

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THE rapid spread of fear that can cause crush injuries and serious accidents in crowds could be provoked by an innate reaction to body language, a provocative new study has found.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The brother of a British hostage in Iraq said Saturday intelligence officers had raided his Dutch home, copied data from his computer and forced him to make a five-page statement about his activities.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Factors such as gender, age and overall health may help predict which people with early Parkinson's disease will experience hallucinations, sleepiness or swelling, a new study says.

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_ The protocol obliges industrialized countries to cut or limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mats Sundin scored his 20th goal of the season to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-1 win over the Rangers in New York on Wednesday.

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US security company Blackwater denies allegations that its staff smuggled weapons into Iraq.

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The Phillies have reportedly settled on former Indians manager Charlie Manuel to become the team's 50th skipper, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site Wednesday night.

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown uses his New Year message to say there will be "real and serious changes" in 2008.

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Grande prestazione dei lombardi che battono 3-1 la Reggina. Nel primo tempo gol di Stankevicius e Martinez; Zamboni accorcia, Caracciolo chiude. REGGIO CALABRIA, 5 novembre 2004 - A suo modo una lezione di calcio.

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The nation's top healthcare official, Tommy G. Thompson, announced yesterday that the federal government had found 5 million doses of flu vaccine in Germany

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NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - First Lady Laura Bush said on Thursday that her husband has long consultations with advisers before making decisions, disputing a recent report that he sometimes relies primarily on gut instincts.

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Botteda orbi a New York nel finale della sfida tra i Knicks e Denver. Un fallo della guardia di New ...

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Blog: Company hopes to improve upon existing toolbars already on the market.

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Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his ...

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ROME (Reuters) - Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of the imperial capital in what is being billed as the world's biggest computer simulation of an ancient city.

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com. Using 90nm processes and AntiVirusNX technology, Transmeta claims it's the first low-power x86-based processor to provide hardware support for the anti-virus protection enabled by XP's SP2.

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La piccola, 5 anni e mezzo, era sparita il 31 luglio vicino alla piscina di Appenzello Il cadavere era stato dissotterrato dagli animali. Ignote per ora le cause della morte Svizzera, per Ylenia speranze finite il corpo della bimba trovato in un bosco La scoperta in un luogo giÃ passato al setaccio dalla polizia un mese fa a trecento metri dal furgoncino del presunto omicida che poi si Ãš suicidato (21:49 15/09/2007)

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The New England Patriots set an N.F.L. record for consecutive wins, counting playoffs, with plenty of help from the winless Miami Dolphins.

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Guatemalan illegal immigrant Gladys sat down last week with her three daughters to draw up a business card for a cleaning service she plans to set up.

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GCI offers commission-free online trading in shares, indices and major currencies. Register today for a free demo account - including charts, quotes and internet trading software.

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Recreational anglers may be responsible for landing nearly 25 percent of over-fished salt water species caught off US coasts, a study released on Thursday suggests.

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Djorkaeff, 36, left Bolton Wanderers and the end of last season and becomes Mark Hughes's first signing after he succeeded Graeme Souness as manager earlier this month.

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FRANKFURT, Germany A referee in Germany is apologizing to fans, after admitting that he manipulated the outcomes of several soccer games.

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