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Helicopter Crashes in Colombian Drug War, Kills 20 | BOGOTA, Colombia - A U.S.-made helicopter on an anti-drugs mission crashed in the Colombian jungle on Thursday, killing all 20 Colombian soldiers aboard, the army said. |
Police Use Taser on Python to Free Man | UNIONTOWN, Pa. - A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man's arm and would not let go. |
Zidane apologizes for head butt | French soccer star Zidane apologized for head-butting an Italian opponent during the World Cup final, saying Wednesday that he was provoked by insults about his mother and sister. |
Iraqi PM Says Sticking to January Election Plan | Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held on schedule in January despite a surge in violence and more than a score of hostages under threat of death from insurgents. |
Ga. Crematory Operator to Plead Guilty | Relatives of loved ones whose bodies were found discarded at a crematorium gathered outside a courthouse Friday as the crematory operator prepared to enter a guilty plea. |
Long-driving Kuehne finally breaks out of 2004 slump | Hank Kuehne knows he is something of a curiosity, a golfer with enormous gifts who can hit the ball jaw-dropping lengths. All of that is fine, and Kuehne |
Sony will delay EU debut of PlayStation 3 | TOKYO -- The release of Sony's PlayStation 3 will be delayed in Europe until March because of problems with producing a key component, the executive in charge of the project said yesterday. The much-awaited update to the popular game console will go on sale in November in the United States and Japan as planned, but fewer units will be available ... |
Crooner Frankie Laine dies at 93 | The American singer Frankie Laine, who sang the theme to the TV show Rawhide, dies, aged 93. |
Bush Now Saying 'We Will Win' Terror War | President Bush will tell the nation's largest veterans' group Tuesday that "we will win" the war on terror, seeking to quell controversy and Democratic criticism of his remark aired a day earlier that victory in the anti-terror battle may not be possible, his spokesman said. |
Spain crowns Argentine chef tapas king | Tapas — the Spanish finger-food that is delighting palates around the world — have a complex new champion: a delicacy of roast peppers, pickled eggplant, horse mackerel and dried leeks. |
Drinking While Pregnant Boosts Preemie Birth Risk | THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking alcohol during pregnancy increases the risk of having an extremely premature baby (less than 32 weeks of gestation), especially among women aged 30 and older, U.S. researchers warn. |
Indonesia and Australia draw closer in terror fight | The front line of Australia's war on terror continues to be fought on Indonesian soil. Last week's bomb blast outside |
Senate Passes $136 Billion Corporate Tax Bill | The federal tax bill was approved by the Senate 69-17 after passing the House a week earlier by 280-41. Mr. Bush is expected to sign it, claiming it as support for the economy -- even though |
The US troop surge, a year later | A year ago in Baghdad: Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. Iraq's government was adrift, and U.S. commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war. |
New Drug Shows Promise in Cutting Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence | A new type of drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of a recurrence, researchers reported yesterday. |
Where to see wetlands in the UK | Science & environment: Ahead of World Wetlands day, Stephen Moss tells you where to see the best wetland habitats in the UK |
Are smaller chocolate bars a good idea? | Confectionery firms are to stop making some of their king-size chocolate bars as part of a drive to combat obesity. Reducing portion sizes is one of the seven key pledges set out in the first Manifesto for |
Apple, AT&T set three price plans for iPhone | Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday they will offer three price plans, starting at $59.99 per month, for the widely anticipated iPhone that is set to go on sale this week. |
U.S. Navy develops acceptable-use policy for IT equipment | The standardized policies are to go into effect in the first quarter of 2005 and will apply to the Navy's 900,000 military, contractor and civilian users. |
In U.S., So Many Obese, So Many Hungry | In a nation where obesity is the second-leading cause of death, 33 million Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from -- a year-round paradox that only becomes more pronounced during the holidays. |
General Mills Cereals Going Whole Grain | General Mills Inc. GIS.N, the No. 2 U.S. cereal maker behind Kellogg Co. K.N, on Thursday said all of its breakfast cereals were going to be made with whole grains to promote healthy eating habits. |
Johnston County Issues Water Restrictions | By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. May 26--Johnston County is telling towns, utilities and residents to cut back on water use this weekend after a volunteer fire department used about 10 percent of the county's reserves overnight. |
Rumsfeld safe from German inquiry | Prosecutors in Germany say they will not pursue a war crimes lawsuit against US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. |
Asia Tsunami Death Toll May Pass 100,000 | An uprooted tree lies on the beach as damaged buildings of Indian Air Force officers, where more than 100 people reportedly were killed by tidal waves, is seen in background, in Nicobar, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec. |
Wichita's Serial Killer Reemerges | A serial strangler who tormented his victims and taunted a town with his murderous boasts before disappearing for 25 years has resurfaced with proof that he had killed again -- in 1986. |
Dico, appello cattolici alla Cei | Grave la nota che impegna parlamentari a non votare il ddl |
Top heads roll in Bulgarian corruption scandal | Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Saturday he had accepted the resignation of two ministers, following a corruption scandal that has shaken his centre-left government. |
Ailing "Law & Order" faces uncertain future | "Law & Order" may stumble in its quest to replace "Gunsmoke" as the longest running primetime drama in television history. |
On the Cheap: ; Vacation Fishing Doesn't Have to Be Expensive | By John McCoy [email protected] If a St. Albans family is any indication, a fishing vacation doesn't have to cost an arm, a leg or even a fingernail. |
Africa flood relief gathers pace | Efforts continue to deliver aid to large parts of Africa after heavy rains and flooding in at least 14 countries. |
Help wanted: Solving steroids | One traditional baseball belief is that the last thing wanted is governmental interference in the sport's day-to-day operation. |
Running Revolution Started as Evolution | Millions of years before headphone-wearing joggers clotted the streets of America, the development of the ability to run played a crucial role in the evolution of early humans, according to new research. |
Nasa readies for asteroid mission | A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System. |
Nel 2006 60 mld in pasti fuori casa | Nomisma, ogni famiglia ha speso in media 70 euro al mese |
E-Commerce Report: Reaching More Customers With a Simple Text Message | When it comes to advertising on the mobile Web, online retailers are treading carefully. But some say they have found enticing success from early marketing efforts. |
Putnam taps trustees | THE REGION Putnam taps trustees |
Environmentalists Gain Small Victory / House Panel Says Bill to Strip Boards of Power Needs Work | By REX SPRINGSTON Environmentalists won a tentative victory yesterday when a House panel decided that a proposal to strip powers from citizen boards needs more study. |
Injured Athlete Released | An athlete from the Central African Republic is released from the hospital Saturday, one day after he was briefly knocked unconscious in an Olympic taekwondo bout. |
'Car of the Year' picked | The Toyota Camry, the nation's most popular car has now been rated as its best new model. |
Rice names critic of U.S. Iraq policies as adviser | Eliot Cohen, a supporter of the U.S. decision to invade Iraq but a critic of the post-war occupation, will become a top aide to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the State Department said on Friday. |
New twist in insurance bid battle | Resolution drops its support for a £4.9bn offer from Standard Life after rival Pearl buys a quarter of its shares. |
Nintendo aims for older crowd with DS | Nintendo is after a new kind of customer, and this time the Japanese game giant doesn't have Pokemon to back it up. The company's new DS, an advanced handheld player meant to expand a market Nintendo already |
New 50 Cent album pushed back another week | 50 Cent's new album, "Curtis," has been pushed back another week, from September 4 to September 11, according to Interscope, which declined to give a reason for the move. |
TV Offers Competing Yule Logs on Dec. 25 | By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK - There's a Yule duel brewing this Christmas day. Not one, but two separate versions of "The Yule Log," one of television's oddest yet most heartwarming holiday habits, will beckon families as they open their gifts. |
Runner Nick Goings Leads Panthers Offense | The Carolina Panthers entered the season thrilled about their depth at running back. |
Producer prices rise muted in July | U.S. producer prices barely edged up in July, kept in check by lower prices for new cars and trucks and for many food items, according to a government report on Tuesday showing muted inflation at the wholesale level. |
Tropical giant penguin discovered | Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru. |
Karzai faces huge challenges as first democratically elected ... | KABUL (CP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai took the helm Tuesday of a country whose revival is threatened by a surging drug trade and a stubbornly persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging in his inaugural address to bring stability and prosperity, even as |
Second Opinions, Through a Patientâs Eyes | Second opinions can be awkward, to say the least, for doctor and patient, and surprisingly little is known about them. |
Sign of hope in US-Venezuela ties | The US and Venezuela say they have made a positive start to improving relations, after talks in Caracas. |
Comic leads Celebrity jungle leap | ITV1's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestants begin their stint in the show - by skydiving to their jungle base. |
Udine, 17:49 - CALCIO, UDINESE: 4-0 NEL TEST CON L'ASD CASARSA | L'Udinese ha ripreso la preparazione in vista della gara con il Milan, affrontando i dilettanti dell... |
Death toll from Japan earthquakes reaches 24 | A strong aftershock measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted north Japan's Niigata Prefecture Monday morning, leading the death toll from the three major quakes that hit the |
China takes stake in Rio, raising pressure on BHP | China has muscled in on miner BHP Billiton's attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto , with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with U.S. group Alcoa to buy a 12 percent stake in Rio. |
RSA: EMC addresses security in its Symmetrix storage arrays | EMC has added a tamper-proof view of management and support actions, safeguards against unauthorized service actions and certified data erasure to its high-end Symmetrix storage arrays. |
Bush campaigns against Iraq war criticism | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - For the third time in less than a year and two months before crucial U.S. elections, President George W. Bush is launching a new campaign to counter opposition to the Iraq war with a series of speeches he insists are not political. |
Body in river named as US soldier | The US military confirms that a body pulled from the Euphrates river is one of three US soldiers missing in Iraq. |
Fool Fight: Ford vs. GM | Will either of the Detroit Demons take the lightweight title? Fools face off. |
Belgacom sells stake in Orange's Belgian unit | Belgian telecommunications operator Belgacom said on Thursday it was selling its stake in the Belgian arm of French mobile operator Orange for 147.8 million euros (193.5 million dollars). |
Alcatel Says Closing in on China 3G Mobile Deal | French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel is nearing a deal with a Chinese peer on cooperating to build third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks using a Chinese technology standard, a senior executive said. |
Henry allays injury fears | Arsenal striker Thierry Henry played down fears of an injury crisis ahead of Sunday's clash at Old Trafford in the wake of his side's bruising encounter at Panathinaikos. |
UPDATE 1-Bank of America says moves 300 more jobs to Boston | Bank of America Corp. (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , which in September promised to move 100 wealth and investment management jobs to Boston, on Friday said it would move an additional 300 jobs to that city next year. |
Apple, Music Labels Face iTunes Antitrust Case | European Commission antitrust hearings over iTunes price concerns begin in late September. |
Pressure on tennis for replay | NEW YORK - Tennis is being encouraged to adopt instant replay in the aftermath of a chair umpire wrongly making an overrule Tuesday in a US Open match involving Serena Williams. |
Continuano gli incendi dei rifiuti | Nella notte 73 interventi dei vigili nel Napoletano |
Four held after rare Burma rally | Four people are held by police in Rangoon after a rare demonstration over economic woes. |
Israel's Olmert delays Palestinian prisoner release | Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delayed a plan to release from prison scores of members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement, Israeli officials said on Saturday. |
Presidential campaign focuses on security | The presidential campaign stayed tightly focused on national security issues Tuesday as George W. Bush and John Kerry sparred over Iraq for the second straight |
Study: Colorectal Screening Test Fails | A common screening test failed to detect potentially cancerous colon growths 95 percent of the time, falsely reassuring patients and doctors, according to a new study. |
McDonald's shares hit record high after dividend increase | OAK BROOK, Ill. - McDonald's Corp. stock surged to a record high yesterday after the fast-food chain disclosed the largest dividend increase in its history and pledged to return more money to shareholders than Wall Street expected. |
'Dirty bomber' attacked in prison | A convicted Al-Qaeda plotter serving life is treated in hospital after he is assaulted by fellow prisoners. |
Brawling basketball players pummel fans | The world of professional basketball was in uproar yesterday after nine players were suspended for joining in the most riotous brawl since the sport became a fixture on US television. |
Insieme alle famiglie. Il Pontefice: "Grazie a Dio siete salve" | ROMA (5 ott. 2004) - "Grazie a Dio siete salve". Il Papa ha accolto con queste parole le due volontarie italiane rapite in Iraq, la riminese Simona Pari e la romana Simona Torretta, ricevute questa mattina con le famiglie in Vaticano. |
Clarkson announces theatre tour | Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is heading back on the road in the US after scrapping a tour earlier this year. |
Gales bring down power-lines and keep fast Tallinn craft in port | Trees falling on power-lines have caused a number of power outages in Southern Finland on Friday morning, as a violent autumn storm sweeps across the country. |
SocGen rinuncia a banca libica | Ma secondo il presidente Bouton, uscira' dalla crisi |
Mexico opposed to U.S. border fence | Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence, which is working its way through the Senate, will damage relations between the two countries. |
Gaza City blast kills militants | A blast rips through a car in Gaza City, killing two Hamas militants and injuring several other people. |
Famiglie bocciate dalle badanti "Anziani trascurati, e i bimbi..." | L'inchiesta: così ci vedono tate e colf che lavorano nelle nostre caseSondaggio dell'Iref su 1000 lavoratori domestici stranieri Famiglie bocciate dalle badanti "Anziani trascurati, e i bimbi..." di SARA STRIPPOLI |
Greenspan promises surprises in September book | Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan promised on Friday to deliver surprises and insights about the future in an eagerly awaited book, but he gave little away for now beyond saying interest rates were low. |
European Press Review: The Doping Games | European papers celebrated the Athens 2004 Olympics and also had a few words to say about the doping cases that marred the games. "The cynics were wrong," declared London's The Independent. |
Infinity Expects Howard Stern to Fulfill Contract | Viacom Inc.'s Infinity radio unit expects ribald talk show host Howard Stern to remain with the company through the end of next year when his contract expires, a senior executive said on Tuesday. |
Judge OKs United Amended Financing Plan | CHICAGO - A federal bankruptcy judge has given United Airlines a 30-day "test period" to show it can cooperate with its unions on a restructuring plan, rejecting union calls to open the process up to rival proposals immediately because United has not tried hard enough to preserve employee pensions. The hearing came a day after the release of court papers in which United warned it "likely" will have to terminate those pension funds in order to secure the loans it needs to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy... |
Lao government damaged in two blasts | Two explosions hit an unused government facility, raising fears ahead of Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. There were no injures though the blasts damaged compound's wall of the government facility. |
Pope on final day of fence-mending visit to Turkey | Pope Benedict's tour of Turkey winds up on Friday looking like an across-the-board success for his effort to repair battered relations with Turkey's Muslims. |
Congress must aid subprime victims: consumer group | Homeowners with subprime mortgages struggling under payments need federal government help to ease them through the crisis, a leading consumer advocacy group said on Wednesday. |
Bombing at Iraq Police Station Kills 20 | KIRKUK, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Saturday outside an Iraqi police academy as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing 20 people and wounding 36 others in the latest attack designed to thwart U.S-backed efforts to build a strong Iraqi security force ahead of January elections. U.S and Iraqi forces, meanwhile, launched an operation in another northern town, Tal Afar, to flush out a militant cell allegedly smuggling men and arms in from Syria, sparking a fierce gunbattle that left at least eight people dead and more than 50 injured... |
Tensione e morti fra israeliani e palestinesi | Si riaccende la tensione in Medio Oriente. Un elicottero israeliano ha lanciato un missile su un campo profughi nella Striscia di Gaza, provocando il ferimento, secondo alcune fonti, di 12 persone. Altre fonti parlano invece di sette feriti. |
Report: Iran wields influence in Iraq | Iran wields more influence than the United States in Iraq and has established itself as America's chief rival in the Middle East, a British think tank said in a report released Wednesday. |
Borsa: Milano apre in rialzo | Mibtel +0,75%, SP/Mib +0,76%, All Stars +0,65% |
Any Command Line Interface Tricks? | The other day I was thinking about all the edge-cases within Linux and how there are hundreds of little commands and tricks. I these know now but only after using UNIX for more than 15 years now (has it been that long!). I wish I would have known all these tricks when I was just getting started. This is similar to Danny O'Briens Life Hacks but since so many of us spend our life tied to our shell these are essentially "Shell Hacks". NetCat is one example. Very powerful tool with a simple syntax. Just run 'nc' and you can connect to a host/port and interact with it manually. You could even write an HTTP client with bash if you really wanted to. The zsh shell looks like it might becom ... |
Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing | A new experimental chip from Intel could house as many as 80 separate processing engines, or cores. |
Google opens up Print Ads to more advertisers | Blog: Google opens Print Ads to all its AdWords customers, allowing them to buy ad space in more than 225 newspapers around the U.S. |
GM could buy Chrysler | General Motors is reportedly in talks to buy all of its struggling rival Chrysler Group from German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler AG. |
Wpp: nel 2006 utili +20% | Vendite salgono del 9,9% per il leader della pubblicita' |
Hokies capture ACC title, BCS spot | Virginia Tech now can proclaim itself the ACC's best team - and no one can argue. The 10th-ranked Hokies capped their inaugural ACC season with the league's outright championship, getting two touchdown passes |
Carlyle compra Sequa per 2,7mld dlr | Offerta si basa su pagamento 175 dlr per ogni azione |
CBS 'redoubling' effort on documents | WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- CBS News on Wednesday defended a "60 Minutes" report regarding President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service, but said it would "redouble" efforts to answer charges that the report relied on fake documents. |
In Montana, Bush Faces a Tough Sell on Social Security | The president's power to grab attention was on display in Montana last week, but Social Security showed a power of its own. |
Stampa spagnola: Totti e Cassano al Real | Totti e Cassano continuano ad essere al centro dell`interesse mediatico dei giornali spagnoli: dopo le dichiarazioni diffuse da "As" su un possibile divorzio tra il capitano e la Roma nel caso Sensi rimanesse presidente, da "Marca" arriva l`annuncio che |
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