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Stocks slipped yesterday as investors worried about the economic outlook after the head of the Countrywide Financial Corporation said the housing downturn could create a recession.	2Business
AFP - Atlanta's Zaza Pachulia, a 22-year-old center from Georgia, was suspended one game without pay by the National Basketball Association for a flagrant foul in a loss to Seattle.	1Sports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NASD on Monday permanently barred convicted former star technology banker Frank Quattrone from the securities industry for refusing to testify about his possible role in destroying documents and obstructing justice.	2Business
DaimlerChrysler AG reported third quarter profits of almost 1 billion euros on Thursday, rebounding from a year-earlier loss, thanks to a strong performance from a Chrysler division rejuvenated by new models like the 300C sedan and Dodge Magnum wagon.	2Business
All is not quiet on the speech front.	2Business
By Faye Flam, The Philadelphia Inquirer May 28--NEW YORK -- Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson and John Smith all recorded sightings of mermaids. Sea monsters populated the old ships' logs, too.	3Sci/Tech
A US decision to call Macedonia, "Macedonia," has raised the ire of Greece, which is threatening to keep the country out of the European Union.	0World
Sacramento International Airport is preparing for what could be the busiest air travel period since before September 11, 2001. Sacramento International has already seen a sharp increase in flights this year.	2Business
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The most feared militant group in Iraq, the movement of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it had agreed with al-Qaida over strategy and the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam." The declaration, which appeared on a Web site often used as a clearinghouse for statements by militant groups, began with a Quranic verse encouraging Muslim unity and said al-Zarqawi considered bin Laden "the best leader for Islam's armies against all infidels and apostates." The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, said the two had been in communication eight months ago and "viewpoints were exchanged" before the dialogue was interrupted. "God soon blessed us with a resumption in communication, and the dignified brothers in al-Qaida understood the strategy of Tawhid and Jihad," the statement said...	0World
Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.	0World
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, the government said on Wednesday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war.	0World
AFP - A bomb blast at a school in southern Thailand on Sunday wounded 17 young Muslim men, police said, while a teacher and a villager were shot dead in separate incidents.	0World
How quickly are snack makers turning cash into profits?	2Business
Rio de Janeiro's carnival jury has announced this year's winner and also demoted another samba school for nudity.	0World
Sorting a real growth story from a flash in the pan.	2Business
Growth in the huge services sector expanded in November, although the prices paid and employment components declined, according to an industry survey published Friday.	2Business
Also: Top 10 geek wallets.	3Sci/Tech
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will be penalized by the current crisis in credit markets but the overall outlook was still benign, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.	2Business
Lleyton Hewitt beats Marat Safin in straight sets to set up a final with Austrian Juergen Melzer in Las Vegas.	0World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ben Broussard belted a two-run homer in the third inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Twins to salvage a split of a unique doubleheader on the final day of the American League regular season.	1Sports
LONDON (Reuters) - High-flying oil climbed back over $50 a barrel on Thursday, with worries over the security of Nigerian supply supporting prices despite a surprise build in U.S. crude inventories.	2Business
US telecoms giant AT&T says hackers have stolen the credit card details of almost 20,000 online customers.	3Sci/Tech
Will you be left holding the bag?	2Business
AFP - Michael Ballack scored the only goal of the game at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday as Chelsea maintained their English Premier League title chase with victory over visitors Reading.	1Sports
Stewart Cink erased a dreadful record of final-round meltdowns to win the WGC Invitational here on Sunday. The 31-year-old had previously led into the final round six times on the US PGA Tour, and had been beaten every time.	1Sports
BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their	0World
The Montreal Expos would be renamed the Washington Nationals if the proposed move of the franchise is approved by baseball owners.	1Sports
SAN JOSE, Calif.âSun executives took attendees for a trip down memory lane Monday as they unveiled the company's upcoming Solaris 10 operating system.	3Sci/Tech
T. Rowe Price announced solid third-quarter results.	2Business
PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Trapeze Networks(TM), the award-winning provider of Smart Mobile(TM) wireless solutions, today announced that it has joined the Juniper Networks J-Partner Solutions Alliance Program.	3Sci/Tech
AP - Three-time All-Star catcher Jason Kendall was close to being traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Oakland Athletics for a pair of pitchers, a baseball official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.	1Sports
ITâS not always easy to feel sorry for Manchester United. They are, after all, the most profitable club in the world and perhaps the richest as well.	1Sports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. chain store sales rose for the fourth consecutive week, but the last-minute Christmas rush was not enough to make up for many retailers' subpar pre-Christmas performance, a report said on Tuesday.	2Business
The last time we saw the guys in the horned helmets, they were standing numbly in Nawlins while their star-spangled rivals carried Adam Vinatieri off the Superdome floor. The Patriots have earned another set of championship rings since then and strung together a 21-game winning streak. And the St. Louis Rams have gone on a jolting carnival ride that still ...	1Sports
"It's one hell of a system," said Columbia project manager Bill Thigpen, who told TechNewsWorld the system is being submitted for a top spot on the upcoming Top500 Supercomputer list due next month.	3Sci/Tech
Since April, when investors voiced optimism that the housing slide had been contained, shares of the countryâs biggest department store chains have fallen by about 30 percent.	2Business
Hormel Foods (HRL :NYSE - news - research) said Thursday that it has acquired Clougherty Packing for $186 million. The Austin, Minn.	2Business
The Golden State Warriors started a four-game road trip...This was the second meeting of the season between the two clubs. On November 8th, Dallas knocked off the Warriors, 101-98, in overtime in front of	1Sports
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for three years gathering potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth and cracked open Wednesday, exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination. Flight engineers suspect a set of tiny explosives failed to trigger the capsule's parachutes, and the capsule slammed into the Utah desert at 193 mph...	0World
AP - Arkansas relied on a swarming defense and the rushing tandem of Darren McFadden and Felix Jones to beat No. 2 Auburn 27-10 Saturday, severely damaging the Tigers' national title hopes.	1Sports
Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced an extension to its industry-leading CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, the core of the Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture.	3Sci/Tech
Catch up with last month's SRI developments.	2Business
Canadian Press - ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels for Sudan's bloodied Darfur region have collapsed after three weeks, a rebel faction said Wednesday.	0World
At least six people, including two Americans, die in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan, officials say.	0World
BAGHDAD Insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education headquarters in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least six people in a powerful blast and wounding dozens more, an Iraqi official said.	0World
Oct. 21, 2004 - The world's population is consuming about 20 percent more natural resources than the planet can produce, the environmental organization WWF International warned Thursday in its "Living Planet" report.	3Sci/Tech
US car and truck sales are likely to rebound in December from a disappointing November, but the bulk of the gain is expected to come from Asian automakers, analysts said.	2Business
NASAâs Cassini spacecraft pierced some of the thick veil of haze that hides Saturnâs giant moon at 8:25 pm CDT Tuesday as it passed within 750 miles of Titan.	3Sci/Tech
London, Sep 25 (UNI) England captain Michael Vaughan gave a lot of credit to the West Indies' ninth-wicket pair of Courtney Browne and Ian Bradshaw for taking the ICC Champions Trophy away from under the home side's noses today with an unbroken last-ditch	1Sports
The state of Maine, Rite Aid Corp., and Community Pharmacy LP have agreed to a consent decree placing conditions on the sale of five Community Pharmacy stores to Rite Aid.	2Business
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Little-known, privately held Hyperion Resources Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to build an $8 billion oil refinery, the first in the United States since 1976, at one of several sites under consideration in the U.S. Midwest.	2Business
Reuters - New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-Ming will make a 2008 salary of $4 million instead of his request for $4.6 million in an arbitration decision announced on Friday in favor of the American League club.	1Sports
AP - Texas coach Rick Barnes knows he could have pampered his freshmen-laden team with an easy nonconference schedule.	1Sports
Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.	0World
Molson Inc., Canada's biggest beermaker, said it will pay minority shareholders a special dividend to overcome opposition to its planned C$3.	2Business
SHANNAN Taylor plans to use his World Boxing Foundation (WBF) super middleweight title fight on Friday as "a battery charge" for his attempt on a far more prestigious and meaningful world title next year.	1Sports
The only thing we might stimulate is a bigger financial mess.	2Business
Ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada is freed from detention, after receiving a pardon from his successor.	0World
Robert McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is leaving after 13 years to become chancellor of the Texas A&M System.	2Business
AP - Pedro Martinez sat in the dugout, head in his hands, and manager Willie Randolph put an arm around him. He was close to tears, and it wasn't only because the New York Mets failed to clinch the NL East.	1Sports
World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya won Grand Prix Final titles Saturday, and a Chinese pair won before home fans.	1Sports
AP - It was only two points for Boise State, but it brought back horrible memories for Hawaii. "When Orlando (Scandrick) picked up that extra point, I thought, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" said Boise State coach Chris Petersen after his No. 25 Broncos held off Hawaii 41-34 on Saturday. "The only thing that looked different was the blue turf."	1Sports
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 27: The Centre brought into effect key changes to its patent law on Monday to cover a range of products from drugs and chemicals to mobile phone and computer software, in line with commitments to WTO.	2Business
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - A U.S. panel of medical experts recommended on Friday that U.S. regulators reject AstraZeneca's AZN.L AZN.N application to sell its anti-clotting drug Exanta.	2Business
According to reports in France, Nicolas Anelka has begun discussions over a three-and-a-half year contract with Liverpool. The Manchester City striker is poised to leave Eastlands during the January transfer	1Sports
TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. will build a second car plant in Thailand and a new motorcycle factory in Vietnam as well as boosting capacity in other regions to meet growing demand abroad even as the Japanese market shrinks.	2Business
Brandes Investment Partners said yesterday that it had taken a 7.9 percent stake in Countrywide Financial, becoming its second-largest investor.	2Business
Stromile Swift signed a one-year deal worth six million US dollars to stay with the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday. Swift, who was to play his fifth NBA season, averaged	1Sports
Who says investing is zero-sum? Members of our CAPS community love sharing their investing knowledge.	2Business
AFP - The British government has delayed the release of secret Treasury documents relating to Black Wednesday, the day in September 1992 when the British pound crashed out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism, the Financial Times said.	0World
Coach Tom Coughlin said Friday the Giants spent considerable time this week revisiting their home opener against the Packers that amounted to a forgettable 35-13 defeat.	1Sports
Davie Â· Southern California offensive coordinator Norm Chow on Thursday tried to squash speculation he may become head coach at Syracuse, where newly hired Athletic Director Daryl Gross from USC fired Paul Pasqualoni a day earlier.	1Sports
Dutch winger Arjen Robben was again in inspirational form to keep Chelsea top of the table as the English club and fellow Londoners Arsenal won high-scoring derbies in the Premier League on Saturday.	1Sports
AFP - Apple's stock soared to a record high Tuesday amid analyst reports that sales of highly profitable iPhones easily rocketed past 300,000 after its US launch.	3Sci/Tech
Cyclist Michael Rogers could benefit for the second time in a month from a crackdown on drug cheats, this time by picking up an Olympic bronze medal.	1Sports
Intelligence officials in South Korea say the mysterious blast in North Korea may have been from a hydro-electric dam project, as Pyongyang claims.	0World
The worldâs three leading news agencies suspended coverage Thursday of the Rugby World Cup in a dispute with the sportâs governing body over media restrictions.	2Business
The retail giant said it would shift capital away from its American stores and into overseas expansion, which will account for the bulk of its growth in the years to come.	2Business
Matt Janning had a performance to remember Sunday, albeit in a Northeastern loss, but he'll want to forget about last night's effort as soon as possible.	1Sports
_ A father and son died when they were electrocuted while cleaning the pool at New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera's home in Panama, relatives said Sunday.	1Sports
Nolberto Solano's third league goal in five matches gave Aston Villa a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur, lifting the club into a fifth-place tie in English soccer's Premiership.	1Sports
Veracode launched a new version of its binary code analysis service on Monday that focuses specifically on helping software engineers find potential backdoor vulnerabilities in their programs.	2Business
The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up	0World
When Microsoft opens its online music store on Thursday, the first song offered should be Dave Brubeck's "It's DÃ©jÃ Vu All Over Again.	2Business
Six days before the regular-season opener, Robert Gallery is still taking snaps at both guard and tackle. Jake Grove is seeing time at center with the first unit, but only in spurts.	1Sports
Round 258 in the eternal battle.	2Business
AFP - Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as President Olusegun Obasanjo's sought to draw union leaders into talks and world oil prices soared.	0World
IBM is being sued by a group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, N.Y. who allege that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused environmental contamination that made them sick. IBM disputes the allegations.	3Sci/Tech
Tiger Woods of the US watches his tee shot on the third hole during US$200,000 Skins golf competition at the Jeju Raon Golf Club in Jeju, Korea, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004.	1Sports
India rejects its inclusion on a US list of countries which have problems eradicating human trafficking.	0World
Few coaches have endured the public scrutiny that has clouded Ron Zook's tenure at Florida. From the moment his hiring became official, Zook was ostracized by fans and the media.	1Sports
ATHENS -- Misty May and Kerri Walsh were feeling the pressure before their Olympic beach volleyball semifinal against fellow Americans and friendly rivals Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs.	1Sports
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have arrested a retired army major suspected of being the mastermind behind a suicide attack on an air force bus which killed eight people, an intelligence official said on Wednesday.	0World
KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up yesterday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.	0World
Executive director says Microsoft's patent claim against Linux is just a tactic to help protect its profits.	3Sci/Tech
Short IT news items.	3Sci/Tech
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Goaltender Martin Gerber stood in for the suspended Ray Emery and made 28 saves on his way to a first shutout of the season as the red-hot Ottawa Senators recorded a 4-0 win over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.	1Sports
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Thursday that just six months after completing the roll-out of its $4 generic prescription drug program, 37.8 percent of all prescriptions it fills are $4 prescriptions.	2Business
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists and police have exposed a major Asian trade in life-threatening fake malaria drugs, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of tablets and the arrest of a dealer in southern China.	0World
com October 27, 2004, 8:05 AM PT. ZDNet's survey of IT professionals in October kept upgrading hardware at number two on the businesses radar throughout the year.	3Sci/Tech

Stocks slipped yesterday as investors worried about the economic outlook after the head of the Countrywide Financial Corporation said the housing downturn could create a recession.

2Business

AFP - Atlanta's Zaza Pachulia, a 22-year-old center from Georgia, was suspended one game without pay by the National Basketball Association for a flagrant foul in a loss to Seattle.

1Sports

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NASD on Monday permanently barred convicted former star technology banker Frank Quattrone from the securities industry for refusing to testify about his possible role in destroying documents and obstructing justice.

2Business

DaimlerChrysler AG reported third quarter profits of almost 1 billion euros on Thursday, rebounding from a year-earlier loss, thanks to a strong performance from a Chrysler division rejuvenated by new models like the 300C sedan and Dodge Magnum wagon.

2Business

All is not quiet on the speech front.

2Business

By Faye Flam, The Philadelphia Inquirer May 28--NEW YORK -- Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson and John Smith all recorded sightings of mermaids. Sea monsters populated the old ships' logs, too.

3Sci/Tech

A US decision to call Macedonia, "Macedonia," has raised the ire of Greece, which is threatening to keep the country out of the European Union.

0World

Sacramento International Airport is preparing for what could be the busiest air travel period since before September 11, 2001. Sacramento International has already seen a sharp increase in flights this year.

2Business

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The most feared militant group in Iraq, the movement of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it had agreed with al-Qaida over strategy and the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam." The declaration, which appeared on a Web site often used as a clearinghouse for statements by militant groups, began with a Quranic verse encouraging Muslim unity and said al-Zarqawi considered bin Laden "the best leader for Islam's armies against all infidels and apostates." The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, said the two had been in communication eight months ago and "viewpoints were exchanged" before the dialogue was interrupted. "God soon blessed us with a resumption in communication, and the dignified brothers in al-Qaida understood the strategy of Tawhid and Jihad," the statement said...

0World

Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.

0World

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, the government said on Wednesday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war.

0World

AFP - A bomb blast at a school in southern Thailand on Sunday wounded 17 young Muslim men, police said, while a teacher and a villager were shot dead in separate incidents.

0World

How quickly are snack makers turning cash into profits?

2Business

Rio de Janeiro's carnival jury has announced this year's winner and also demoted another samba school for nudity.

0World

Sorting a real growth story from a flash in the pan.

2Business

Growth in the huge services sector expanded in November, although the prices paid and employment components declined, according to an industry survey published Friday.

2Business

Also: Top 10 geek wallets.

3Sci/Tech

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will be penalized by the current crisis in credit markets but the overall outlook was still benign, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.

2Business

Lleyton Hewitt beats Marat Safin in straight sets to set up a final with Austrian Juergen Melzer in Las Vegas.

0World

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ben Broussard belted a two-run homer in the third inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Twins to salvage a split of a unique doubleheader on the final day of the American League regular season.

1Sports

LONDON (Reuters) - High-flying oil climbed back over $50 a barrel on Thursday, with worries over the security of Nigerian supply supporting prices despite a surprise build in U.S. crude inventories.

2Business

US telecoms giant AT&T says hackers have stolen the credit card details of almost 20,000 online customers.

3Sci/Tech

Will you be left holding the bag?

2Business

AFP - Michael Ballack scored the only goal of the game at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday as Chelsea maintained their English Premier League title chase with victory over visitors Reading.

1Sports

Stewart Cink erased a dreadful record of final-round meltdowns to win the WGC Invitational here on Sunday. The 31-year-old had previously led into the final round six times on the US PGA Tour, and had been beaten every time.

1Sports

BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their

0World

The Montreal Expos would be renamed the Washington Nationals if the proposed move of the franchise is approved by baseball owners.

1Sports

SAN JOSE, Calif.âSun executives took attendees for a trip down memory lane Monday as they unveiled the company's upcoming Solaris 10 operating system.

3Sci/Tech

T. Rowe Price announced solid third-quarter results.

2Business

PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Trapeze Networks(TM), the award-winning provider of Smart Mobile(TM) wireless solutions, today announced that it has joined the Juniper Networks J-Partner Solutions Alliance Program.

3Sci/Tech

AP - Three-time All-Star catcher Jason Kendall was close to being traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Oakland Athletics for a pair of pitchers, a baseball official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

1Sports

ITâS not always easy to feel sorry for Manchester United. They are, after all, the most profitable club in the world and perhaps the richest as well.

1Sports

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. chain store sales rose for the fourth consecutive week, but the last-minute Christmas rush was not enough to make up for many retailers' subpar pre-Christmas performance, a report said on Tuesday.

2Business

The last time we saw the guys in the horned helmets, they were standing numbly in Nawlins while their star-spangled rivals carried Adam Vinatieri off the Superdome floor. The Patriots have earned another set of championship rings since then and strung together a 21-game winning streak. And the St. Louis Rams have gone on a jolting carnival ride that still ...

1Sports

"It's one hell of a system," said Columbia project manager Bill Thigpen, who told TechNewsWorld the system is being submitted for a top spot on the upcoming Top500 Supercomputer list due next month.

3Sci/Tech

Since April, when investors voiced optimism that the housing slide had been contained, shares of the countryâs biggest department store chains have fallen by about 30 percent.

2Business

Hormel Foods (HRL :NYSE - news - research) said Thursday that it has acquired Clougherty Packing for $186 million. The Austin, Minn.

2Business

The Golden State Warriors started a four-game road trip...This was the second meeting of the season between the two clubs. On November 8th, Dallas knocked off the Warriors, 101-98, in overtime in front of

1Sports

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for three years gathering potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth and cracked open Wednesday, exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination. Flight engineers suspect a set of tiny explosives failed to trigger the capsule's parachutes, and the capsule slammed into the Utah desert at 193 mph...

0World

AP - Arkansas relied on a swarming defense and the rushing tandem of Darren McFadden and Felix Jones to beat No. 2 Auburn 27-10 Saturday, severely damaging the Tigers' national title hopes.

1Sports

Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced an extension to its industry-leading CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, the core of the Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture.

3Sci/Tech

Catch up with last month's SRI developments.

2Business

Canadian Press - ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels for Sudan's bloodied Darfur region have collapsed after three weeks, a rebel faction said Wednesday.

0World

At least six people, including two Americans, die in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan, officials say.

0World

BAGHDAD Insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education headquarters in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least six people in a powerful blast and wounding dozens more, an Iraqi official said.

0World

Oct. 21, 2004 - The world's population is consuming about 20 percent more natural resources than the planet can produce, the environmental organization WWF International warned Thursday in its "Living Planet" report.

3Sci/Tech

US car and truck sales are likely to rebound in December from a disappointing November, but the bulk of the gain is expected to come from Asian automakers, analysts said.

2Business

NASAâs Cassini spacecraft pierced some of the thick veil of haze that hides Saturnâs giant moon at 8:25 pm CDT Tuesday as it passed within 750 miles of Titan.

3Sci/Tech

London, Sep 25 (UNI) England captain Michael Vaughan gave a lot of credit to the West Indies' ninth-wicket pair of Courtney Browne and Ian Bradshaw for taking the ICC Champions Trophy away from under the home side's noses today with an unbroken last-ditch

1Sports

The state of Maine, Rite Aid Corp., and Community Pharmacy LP have agreed to a consent decree placing conditions on the sale of five Community Pharmacy stores to Rite Aid.

2Business

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Little-known, privately held Hyperion Resources Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to build an $8 billion oil refinery, the first in the United States since 1976, at one of several sites under consideration in the U.S. Midwest.

2Business

Reuters - New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-Ming will make a 2008 salary of $4 million instead of his request for $4.6 million in an arbitration decision announced on Friday in favor of the American League club.

1Sports

AP - Texas coach Rick Barnes knows he could have pampered his freshmen-laden team with an easy nonconference schedule.

1Sports

Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.

0World

Molson Inc., Canada's biggest beermaker, said it will pay minority shareholders a special dividend to overcome opposition to its planned C$3.

2Business

SHANNAN Taylor plans to use his World Boxing Foundation (WBF) super middleweight title fight on Friday as "a battery charge" for his attempt on a far more prestigious and meaningful world title next year.

1Sports

The only thing we might stimulate is a bigger financial mess.

2Business

Ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada is freed from detention, after receiving a pardon from his successor.

0World

Robert McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is leaving after 13 years to become chancellor of the Texas A&M System.

2Business

AP - Pedro Martinez sat in the dugout, head in his hands, and manager Willie Randolph put an arm around him. He was close to tears, and it wasn't only because the New York Mets failed to clinch the NL East.

1Sports

World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya won Grand Prix Final titles Saturday, and a Chinese pair won before home fans.

1Sports

AP - It was only two points for Boise State, but it brought back horrible memories for Hawaii. "When Orlando (Scandrick) picked up that extra point, I thought, 'You've got to be kidding me,'" said Boise State coach Chris Petersen after his No. 25 Broncos held off Hawaii 41-34 on Saturday. "The only thing that looked different was the blue turf."

1Sports

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 27: The Centre brought into effect key changes to its patent law on Monday to cover a range of products from drugs and chemicals to mobile phone and computer software, in line with commitments to WTO.

2Business

BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - A U.S. panel of medical experts recommended on Friday that U.S. regulators reject AstraZeneca's AZN.L AZN.N application to sell its anti-clotting drug Exanta.

2Business

According to reports in France, Nicolas Anelka has begun discussions over a three-and-a-half year contract with Liverpool. The Manchester City striker is poised to leave Eastlands during the January transfer

1Sports

TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. will build a second car plant in Thailand and a new motorcycle factory in Vietnam as well as boosting capacity in other regions to meet growing demand abroad even as the Japanese market shrinks.

2Business

Brandes Investment Partners said yesterday that it had taken a 7.9 percent stake in Countrywide Financial, becoming its second-largest investor.

2Business

Stromile Swift signed a one-year deal worth six million US dollars to stay with the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday. Swift, who was to play his fifth NBA season, averaged

1Sports

Who says investing is zero-sum? Members of our CAPS community love sharing their investing knowledge.

2Business

AFP - The British government has delayed the release of secret Treasury documents relating to Black Wednesday, the day in September 1992 when the British pound crashed out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism, the Financial Times said.

0World

Coach Tom Coughlin said Friday the Giants spent considerable time this week revisiting their home opener against the Packers that amounted to a forgettable 35-13 defeat.

1Sports

Davie Â· Southern California offensive coordinator Norm Chow on Thursday tried to squash speculation he may become head coach at Syracuse, where newly hired Athletic Director Daryl Gross from USC fired Paul Pasqualoni a day earlier.

1Sports

Dutch winger Arjen Robben was again in inspirational form to keep Chelsea top of the table as the English club and fellow Londoners Arsenal won high-scoring derbies in the Premier League on Saturday.

1Sports

AFP - Apple's stock soared to a record high Tuesday amid analyst reports that sales of highly profitable iPhones easily rocketed past 300,000 after its US launch.

3Sci/Tech

Cyclist Michael Rogers could benefit for the second time in a month from a crackdown on drug cheats, this time by picking up an Olympic bronze medal.

1Sports

Intelligence officials in South Korea say the mysterious blast in North Korea may have been from a hydro-electric dam project, as Pyongyang claims.

0World

The worldâs three leading news agencies suspended coverage Thursday of the Rugby World Cup in a dispute with the sportâs governing body over media restrictions.

2Business

The retail giant said it would shift capital away from its American stores and into overseas expansion, which will account for the bulk of its growth in the years to come.

2Business

Matt Janning had a performance to remember Sunday, albeit in a Northeastern loss, but he'll want to forget about last night's effort as soon as possible.

1Sports

_ A father and son died when they were electrocuted while cleaning the pool at New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera's home in Panama, relatives said Sunday.

1Sports

Nolberto Solano's third league goal in five matches gave Aston Villa a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur, lifting the club into a fifth-place tie in English soccer's Premiership.

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Veracode launched a new version of its binary code analysis service on Monday that focuses specifically on helping software engineers find potential backdoor vulnerabilities in their programs.

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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up

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When Microsoft opens its online music store on Thursday, the first song offered should be Dave Brubeck's "It's DÃ©jÃ Vu All Over Again.

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Six days before the regular-season opener, Robert Gallery is still taking snaps at both guard and tackle. Jake Grove is seeing time at center with the first unit, but only in spurts.

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Round 258 in the eternal battle.

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AFP - Tens of millions of Nigerian workers began a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as President Olusegun Obasanjo's sought to draw union leaders into talks and world oil prices soared.

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IBM is being sued by a group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, N.Y. who allege that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused environmental contamination that made them sick. IBM disputes the allegations.

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Tiger Woods of the US watches his tee shot on the third hole during US$200,000 Skins golf competition at the Jeju Raon Golf Club in Jeju, Korea, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004.

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India rejects its inclusion on a US list of countries which have problems eradicating human trafficking.

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Few coaches have endured the public scrutiny that has clouded Ron Zook's tenure at Florida. From the moment his hiring became official, Zook was ostracized by fans and the media.

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ATHENS -- Misty May and Kerri Walsh were feeling the pressure before their Olympic beach volleyball semifinal against fellow Americans and friendly rivals Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs.

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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have arrested a retired army major suspected of being the mastermind behind a suicide attack on an air force bus which killed eight people, an intelligence official said on Wednesday.

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up yesterday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.

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Executive director says Microsoft's patent claim against Linux is just a tactic to help protect its profits.

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Short IT news items.

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Goaltender Martin Gerber stood in for the suspended Ray Emery and made 28 saves on his way to a first shutout of the season as the red-hot Ottawa Senators recorded a 4-0 win over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.

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BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Thursday that just six months after completing the roll-out of its $4 generic prescription drug program, 37.8 percent of all prescriptions it fills are $4 prescriptions.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists and police have exposed a major Asian trade in life-threatening fake malaria drugs, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of tablets and the arrest of a dealer in southern China.

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com October 27, 2004, 8:05 AM PT. ZDNet's survey of IT professionals in October kept upgrading hardware at number two on the businesses radar throughout the year.

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