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The creator of the timing system used in the controversial Tennessee-Rutgers women’s game Monday night said he suspected that human error led to the clock’s stopping.

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The New York Mets twice blew a three-run lead, and they might be about to blow the NL East.

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An aggressive fungal disease known as soybean rust has been found on plants in Louisiana, the first US case, threatening a crop valued at $17.

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AP - UNLV has offered men's basketball coach Lon Kruger a contract that would guarantee him $5.2 million over the next five years.

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World number one Vijay Singh of Fiji has been named the player of the year on the European PGA tour despite not winning a title in Europe.

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You're probably better off -- and worse off -- than you thought.

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The science makes a space elevator a legitimate possibility.

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You have to give the fans who attended the Chiefs game Sunday afternoon a lot of credit. Despite a less than full house of about 60,000 die-hard fans, they watched San Diego waltz into Arrowhead and pull out a 34-31 victory.

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AP - Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, one of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Colombia has dismantled its big drug cartels and captured high-living kingpins but police say the small, low-profile groups that have taken their place are harder to track down and can be more dangerous.

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Reuters - The Cleveland Cavaliers Thursday picked up the team's 2005-06 contract option on forward Drew Gooden.

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Germany comes up with the funds to build a high-speed, magnetic levitation, rail service in Munich

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AP - Screaming with fear, paralyzed children at a shelter for the physically disabled and mentally ill lay helpless in their beds as water surged into their dormitories during the tsunami that ravaged coastal areas of southern Asia.

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To get parliamentary majority for his Gaza Strip plan israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is planning to create a new coalition by joining main opposition Labour party leaded by Shimon Peres.

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AFP - Heavyweights America, Russia, France and Argentina moved closer to the Davis cup quarter-finals on Friday on a day when opponents were cursed by illness and missing stars.

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Russian authorities on Wednesday claimed $158m in back taxes from VimpelCom, the country's second-largest mobile phone company, raising fears of spreading political interference in private business.

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Specialist in nanomaterial manufacturing will use its process to develop silicon cells.

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As generous in victory as they were defiant in times of trouble, the Red Sox spread nearly $15.2 million in playoff winnings 95 ways, rewarding everyone from batboys to clubhouse attendants for helping them win the franchise's first World Series in 86 years.

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NEW YORK - A day after sacking its chief executive, Marsh & McLennan (MMC) announced Tuesday it will stop accepting fees at the heart of a lawsuit by New York's attorney general accusing the world's largest insurance broker of rigging prices.

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An unmanned Israeli aircraft fired at least three missiles at a group of Palestinians in Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on early Sunday, Palestinian officials said.

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AP - Every fall, Marilyn Krom tries to make a trip to Vermont to see its famously beautiful fall foliage.

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's aging armaments will roll through Havana on Saturday in the country's first military parade in a decade, but still unknown is whether ailing, elderly commander in chief Fidel Castro will show up to watch.

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Amcor has today revealed a thorough trashing and a top level clean out at the packaging giant over possible breaches of the Trade Practices Act after the company said certain officers and

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Investor's Business Daily - Shaun Rein, a frequent business traveler and head of a Shanghai market research firm, says he doesn't waste time sitting in front of a computer to book hotels and flights for his business trips. Instead, he calls Ctrip.com International. In less than 10 minutes, he is on his way to the airport, while his cell phone takes a text message confirming his hotel reservation.

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European shares edged higher as oil prices fell to seven-week lows easing pressure on companies' margins, but activity was muted ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates later Wednesday.

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As long-time Pogue’s Postians are aware, I’m obsessed with the signs in airplanes. Now I’ve got another one for you, from an American jet I just flew to California: CAUTION OPEN DOOR SLOWLY DOOR OPENS INTO AISLE It’s 2008. Do they really still not have any punctuation available in those fonts? Pogue Unplugged.

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CHICAGO -- Vornado Realty Trust said Wednesday it was withdrawing its $23.2 billion cash-and-stock buyout offer for Equity Office Properties Trust, ending a bidding war hours before the real estate company's shareholders were scheduled to vote on a competing offer from the private equity firm...

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'Intrusive and unnecessary' Closed-circuit television (CCTV) system operators would need exceptional justification for recording sound as well as video, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned.


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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from World AIDS Day to Australian brush fires, Asian games, and more.

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It has been my theory for a little while that sometime in the near future, we are going to see the downfall of physical discs for watching movies. Check out this and other original content on CNET's blog network.

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NEW DELHI: Malaysian PM Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmed Badawi on Monday underlined the need to strengthen India-Malaysia economic and trade co-operation through a free-trade agreement (FTA) and invited suggestions to maximise gains from such an arrangement.

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Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who has become a leader in the Iraq insurgency, is using his role to become a major figure in the broader Islamic jihad movement, senior counterterrorist and intelligence experts say.

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PASADENA, Calif., Sept 22 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a workshop to assist small businesses on Oct. 10 at the Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego's Mission Valley.

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AP - No president will be elected in Lebanon unless the Hezbollah-led opposition gets veto power in the future government, the leader of the militant group declared Wednesday.

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New England captain Jason Robinson is setting new standards. Sam Wheeler looks at the career of the state-educated Leeds-born former rugby league star Thirty-two years after Clive Sullivan led Great Britain

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Iran's foreign minister defends the right to pursue nuclear technology for peaceful aims in a speech at the UN.

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By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Feb. 2--The first jury trial in a Dallas Cowboys stadium eminent-domain case is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

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The controversial five-match one-day series between Zimbabwe and England will now get under way on Sunday, according to Zimbabwe Cricket media and communications manager Lovemore Banda.

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Twinkie maker Interstate Bakeries (IBC:NYSE - news - research) on Monday delayed filing its annual report for the second time, citing problems with its books that the company said could end up pushing it toward bankruptcy.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Wednesday they were now treating the death of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko as murder, raising the stakes in an investigation that has extended from London to Moscow.

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Fortunately, the risk to end users is low if system has been patched with Microsoft Updates.

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Of Mortgages and Realities.

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AFP - SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, said that bottom-line profits surged 29 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, at the top end of analysts' expectations.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. is sporting a Red Sox cap these days, daring to root for Boston against St. Louis in the World Series. Never mind that the Cardinals play at

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Reuters - Comcast Corp. , the top U.S. cable operator, on Thursday reported its quarterly net profit rose 10 percent, boosted by more high-speed Internet customers.

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Royal Bank of Canada, the country's largest bank, named TSX Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Barbara Stymiest to a new position of Chief Operating Officer, part of a reorganization that includes replacing three senior executives.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain set a two-week deadline for a private-sector rescue of Northern Rock, as it confirmed plans to convert its almost 25 billions pounds ($49 billion) of loans to the stricken bank into bonds in a bid to smooth a deal.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Tommy Hilfiger Corp. TOM.N fell as much as 26 percent on Monday after a federal grand jury subpoenaed documents on commissions paid to a foreign subsidiary of the clothing maker.

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VfL Wolfsburg remain clear at the top of the Bundesliga table after a last-minute Diego Klimowicz strike condemned Kurt Jara's Kaiserslautern to defeat at the Volks-Wagen Arena, on a day that saw Miroslav Klose hit a hat-trick for Werder Bremen at Bochum.

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France has defeated Cyprus 2-0 in its World Cup qualifier in Nicosia thanks to goals from Sylvain Wiltord and Thierry Henry. Wiltord, a former teammate of Henry's at Arsenal, netted the opening goal in the

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LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Top-ranked Southern California tries to win a school-record 21st straight home game and post a 20th consecutive victory overall when it hosts rival Notre Dame on Saturday.

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The Consumer Electronics Show has always been a hardware-focused, but this year software, information and entertainment content edged toward center stage.

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AFP - It was supposed to be a media coup: basketball superstar Yao Ming took a public stage to condemn the consumption of shark fin soup and vowed never to eat the Chinese delicacy again.

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GEORGINA HARLAND rescued a bronze medal from the ruins of her modern pentathlon challenge for gold yesterday. Harland lay next to last of the 32-woman field after the first event when she did shooting's equivalent

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American Express is suing Visa and MasterCard plus eight US banks, claiming anti-competitive tactics kept it out of the market. The litigation is the latest setback for Visa and MasterCard, which last month

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When the power goes out in Baghdad, Iraqis blame the generator man, probably the most vilified figure after Saddam Hussein.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of Americans lining up to file initial claims for jobless benefits thinned by 9,000 last week, the government said on Thursday in a surprisingly strong report that signaled healthy job growth.

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Reuters - Cingular Wireless said on Friday it struck a deal to sell some assets to Alltel Corp. for $170 million in cash, a move that will help it meet the government's divestiture requirements stemming from its purchase of AT&T Wireless.

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Q: I am not computer intelligent, so I use a tech support company for help. I have read in the paper about Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Windows XP.

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The oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide that has built up in the air, turning water more acidic and creating potentially catastrophic conditions for marine life.

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With Florida facing the possibility of its third hurricane in a month, NASA is putting together a backup plan for its message system based on Research in Motion Ltd.

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AP - James Augustine tied his career high with 21 points as No. 1 Illinois all but abandoned its outside game for inside jumpers and layups in a 84-65 win over Ohio State in its Big Ten opener Wednesday night.

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Newcastle manager Bobby Robson has been "relieved of his duties" at the lagging soccer club, Newcastle announced Monday.

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It follows the announcement last week that Zurich would not be able to host any of the 2008 European football championship games, owing to a legal wrangle over plans for a new stadium.

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Malaysia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu outside a 10-kilometer quarantine zone imposed around the first village hit in the latest wave of the virus.

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GENEVA : International air passenger traffic should record its strongest growth in 12 years in 2004, climbing by 11 percent for the year as a whole, the International Air Transport Association said Tuesday.

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Newly-crowned MotoGP champion, Valentino Rossi, has revealed that, contrary to speculation, he has no intention of switching to F1, for at least a couple of years.

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Canadian Press - ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's foreign minister said Thursday "nothing much has been achieved" at peace talks to end the crisis in Darfur so far, a view borne out by an African Union mediator's failure to even get face-to-face discussions off the ground.

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Grace Park had four straight birdies on the back nine in a 6-under 66 that put her in a tie for the lead with Kim Saiki and Silvia Cavalleri after Thursday's opening round of the LPGA Asahi Ryokuken International Championship.

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NEW YORK In a memorable match that featured quality tennis and controversy, Jennifer Capriati outlasted Serena Williams, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, in a US Open quarterfinal.

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Amazon is selling storage, computing power and other behind-the-scenes data center services.

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Oil should continue to flow from Nigeria, the world's seventh largest exporter, despite a rebel threat to attack foreign oil workers in an "all-out war" due to start on Friday, multinational energy companies said.

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Israel's assassination of the Hamas leader Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil in Syria is widely seen by the Middle East press as a veiled warning to Damascus, which Israel has accused of supporting terrorists, rather than retaliation to Hamas.

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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she must respond in kind to attacks from rival Barack Obama even though she'd rather keep the race for the Democratic presidential nomination focused on their differences on public policy issues.

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There's a dent in the number that sets it apart from its peers.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it would launch an HD DVD player for its Xbox 360 game console on November 22 in Japan for 20,790 yen ($177), matching rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 in high-definition DVD functions.

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The EU backs plans to ease global grain shortages by telling farmers they no longer need to leave land fallow.

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Gymnast Paul Hamm became the first-ever American to win the men's all-around title in one of the closest-ever Olympic competitions.

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MADRID (AFP) - Real Madrid and Real Sociedad will play out the remaining six minutes of Sunday's match, which was interrupted by a bomb hoax purporting to come from ETA, on January 5. The clubs were drawing 1-1 when police evacuated 70,000 spectators.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian doctors have reattached a man's nearly severed penis after his first wife, enraged by his comparison of her sex skills with those of his younger second wife, decided to chop it off with a kitchen knife.

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On Monday, Baltimore will announce that Norfolk has officially ousted Ottawa as the Orioles' Class AAA affiliate.

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Russia pressed ahead yesterday with controversial plans to break up the country's biggest oil company Yukos, setting a date of December 19 for an auction of its main production unit at a bargain basement starting price of $8.65bn (£4.88bn).

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AP - Jimmie Johnson's series-high sixth victory of the season Sunday was overshadowed by word that a plane carrying members of the Hendrick Motorsports organization crashed on the way to Martinsville Speedway.

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UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Hands on her hips, her shoulders slightly pinched forward, Seattle's Lauren Jackson stood stoically in front of her bench, waiting through the seemingly interminable commercials before the start of the second half.

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AP - Nintendo's Wii video game system hit Japanese stores Saturday with long lineups and shortages, following its sellout U.S. launch last month.

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Germany comes up with the funds to build a high-speed, magnetic levitation, rail service in Munich

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Now that the Tigers beat Mike Mussina to even the best-of-five series at one game apiece, Friday's starting pitcher Randy Johnson has a new assignment: rescue the Yankees.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Airways UAIRQ.OB plans to cut its executive payroll by 20 percent, reducing pay and benefits for its 3,000 managers and eliminating positions, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

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A teenage mother who had her baby son returned to her in hospital by order of a judge will fight to keep him.

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AFP - Henrik Larsson bowed out of Old Trafford on Wednesday with a reminder of why Manchester United had been so desperate to keep him until the end of the season as Sir Alex Ferguson's side stumbled into the last eight of the Champions League with a 1-0 win over Lille.

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Part of Hewlett-Packard's Chinese operations is up for sale as the company's Chinese partner looks to sell its stake.

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McDonald's Corp. said on Monday that Charlie Bell, its 44-year-old president and chief executive, had stepped down to focus on battling cancer just seven months after

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Daniel F. Akerson says the decisions he made as chief executive of Nextel Communications Inc. were all about survival.

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AP - Dutch authorities have confirmed that 13 young Muslims arrested on terrorism charges in the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh are members of a radical Islamic group with international links and a Syrian-born spiritual leader.

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The new year will begin with a bang when six-time Grammy Award nominees Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the road with special guests and five-time nominees Gnarls Barkley in January. One of the most-nominated artists this year, Warner Bros.

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AP - New Zealand scientists are breeding a herd of cows that produce lower-fat milk after the chance discovery of a natural gene mutation in one animal.

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AP - Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N on Wednesday posted a slight rise in quarterly profit, fueled by revenue gains across all of its businesses, and its shares rose more than 2 percent in after-hours trade.

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Courier firm DHL decides to ditch its plan to make Brussels its international hub as authorities delay a decision over night flights.

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