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MSP Ewing treated for pneumonia
Scottish National Party MSP Margaret Ewing, who fought cancer two years ago, faces a new health battle. | 2 |
Indian manufacturers seek role on global stage (Reuters)
Reuters - Just three years ago, Tata Motors Ltd., the flagship of India's second-largest private conglomerate, was mired in red ink and caught in the grip of a prolonged industrial slump. | 13 |
India makes Olympic breakthrough
Kashmir veteran Rajyavardhan Rathore wins India's first ever individual silver medal at the Olympic Games. | 13 |
Israel Ends West Bank Construction Freeze
JERUSALEM - The Israeli government issued bids Tuesday for 1,000 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements, insisting the construction has Washington's tacit approval even though it violates a U.S.-backed peace plan. U.S... | 13 |
Iverson Has Broken Thumb, but Will Play
ATHENS, Greece - Allen Iverson broke his right thumb but plans to play anyway Tuesday night for the U.S. Olympic basketball team, which is coming off an embarrassing loss to Puerto Rico in its opener... | 13 |
Najaf Fighting Resumes Amid Peace Mission
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A pared-down delegation of Iraqis arrived in Najaf by helicopter Tuesday to present radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr with a peace proposal aimed at ending the violent insurgency wracking the holy city. Despite the delegation's presence there, fighting intensified in Najaf, with at least one U.S... | 13 |
Disaster Aid Flows to Victims of Charley
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Federal disaster assistance money started flowing to Hurricane Charley's victims and postal workers handed out mail Tuesday outside their damaged building, but hundreds of thousands still had no phones, no running water, no diapers for the baby and no gas to fill the tank... | 13 |
Stocks Climb on Drop in Consumer Prices
NEW YORK - Stocks rose for a second straight session Tuesday as a drop in consumer prices Tuesday allowed investors to put aside worries about inflation, at least for the short term. With gasoline prices falling to eight-month lows, the Consumer Price Index registered a small drop in July, giving consumers a respite from soaring energy prices... | 13 |
Consumer Prices Down, Industry Output Up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices dropped in July for the first time in eight months as a sharp run up in energy costs reversed, the government said in a report that suggested a slow rate of interest rate hikes is likely. | 10 |
MSP Ewing treated for pneumonia
Scottish National Party MSP Margaret Ewing, who fought cancer two years ago, faces a new health battle. | 10 |
Florida battles hunger, heat as death toll rises to 19
On <a href='http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/info/2315/'>CNN</a> | 10 |
Real Cuts Music Prices To Pressure iTunes
For more than a year now, if you wanted to buy downloaded music to play on your iPod, you had to go to Apple's music site, the iTunes Music Store, to get it. | 0 |
US consumer prices post first decline in eight months
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- US consumer prices declined marginally in July, posting the first fall since last November, the Labor Department said in a report released Tuesday. | 0 |
Lojack makes Canada move with Boomerang buy
The Westwood company is spending $48 million to acquire Boomerang Tracking Inc., a Montreal company that operates a stolen car recovery system in Canada. | 0 |
US July Output Up; Factories Run Faster
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US industrial output advanced in July, as American factories operated at their highest capacity in more than three years, a Federal Reserve report on Tuesday showed. | 0 |
Jacko pre-trial ploy to collar 'Mad Dog'
WEARING a dazzling white suit with a yellow armband, Michael Jackson arrived at a Californian courthouse yesterday to confront the criminal prosecutor who has been trying to imprison him for more than a decade. | 1 |
Hollywood News > Singer Courtney Love to face trial in drug case:
A Los Angeles court has set Sep 30 as trial date for rock singer Courtney Love on two felony drug possession charges, reports Xinhua. | 1 |
Identity of man still unknown; fans continue to leave
COVENTRY, Vt. Police have yet to identify the body of a male concertgoer found dead after this weekend's Phish concert in Coventry. | 1 |
Like Woodstock on the road
S omehow it's fitting a sold-out VANS Warped Tour played Riverbend Monday on the 35th anniversary of Woodstock. | 1 |
Texas man dies from flesh-eating bacteria that entered cut on his leg
HOUSTON A man has died from flesh-eating bacteria that entered his body through a minor cut on his leg. | 3 |
AGRICULTURE REPORT - Vitamin E and Poultry Health
Researchers say extra vitamin E fed to turkeys appears to help control infections from listeria. People who eat foods that contain this bacteria can get listeriosis. | 3 |
Overdose da ecstasy Muore fuori dalla discoteca
RICCIONE, 15 AGOSTO 2004 - Una ragazza di 26 anni di San Severino Marche (Macerata) è stata trovata agonizzante verso le 5 nel parcheggio della discoteca Peter Pan di Riccione (nella foto) dal fidanzato, uno dei disc jockey che avrebbe dovuto far ballare ... | 4 |
Fioretto, tre italiani nei quarti di finale. Si punta all'oro
E'quasi fatta per l'Italia del calcio. Gli azzurrini di Claudio Gentile battono per 3-2 il Giappone e mettono quasi del tutto alle spalle timori e patemi. Ora per qualificarsi basterà un pareggio contro il Paraguay, sconfitto dal Ghana nell'altra ... | 4 |
Zucchine amare: altri due in ospedale
BOLOGNA - Altre due persone, madre e figlio, sarebbero state intossicate da zucchine dal sapore amaro. Una testimonianza in tal senso e' al vaglio degli investigatori dopo la morte di Alma Bettoni, e il malore del figlio, a San Giovanni in Persiceto. Le ... | 4 |
Researchers Find New Species of Bird
MANILA, Philippines - Filipino and British wildlife researchers say they've stumbled upon what appears to be a new species of flightless bird found only on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern ... | 6 |
AMD ships 90nm chips
Sunnyvale-based computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., says it's shipped its first low-power Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processors made with its new 90 nanometer (nm) manufacturing process. | 6 |
Livermore: No need for HP-UX on x86
CHICAGO -- This cannot be an easy time for Ann Livermore. When Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) missed Wall Street's earnings expectations late last week, the blame was placed squarely on the shoulders of ... | 6 |
Astronomers give Milky Way an age
A team working with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile report that our galaxy is 13,600 million years old, give or take 800 million years. | 6 |
Nix the NBA All-Stars, send the NBA champs
Even if the United States men's Olympic basketball team takes a gold medal home from Athens, the future of this program needs a major re-evaluation. | 8 |
I'm innocent, says Greek Olympic champion Kenteris
Olympic champion Kostas Kenteris, who is likely to be expelled from the Olympics for missing a doping test, said Tuesday that he is not a drugs cheat. | 8 |
Olympic history for India, UAE
An Indian army major shot his way to his country's first ever individual Olympic silver medal on Tuesday, while in the same event an member of Dubai's ruling family became the first ever medallist from the United Arab Emirates. | 8 |
Lara's optimism is pure whitewash
IF anyone needed an indicator of how far the West Indies have fallen, it came when captain Brian Lara talked about the advantage his players would gain from knowing how to lift in the final Test of a series just to avoid a whitewash. | 8 |
Lopez joins Lazio on loan
Rome, Italy (Sports Network) - Oscar Lopez will play this upcoming season at Lazio. The defender was sent Tuesday to the Serie A club on a one-year loan from Spanish side Barcelona. | 8 |
Life in Athens: From songs about Dutch swimmers to watching wedgies
You've heard of swimmer's ear, but what about swimmer's wave? It's the odd way in which Olympic swimmers -- and many gymnasts -- acknowledge applause: By raising their arms to the sky, palms upward, then moving their hands about as if they're changing ... | 8 |
Raiders notes: Gallery has elbow 'sprain'; trainer not too concerned
NAPA - The Raiders and Robert Gallery got a scare they didn't need late Monday afternoon. The NFL's second overall choice in April's draft and presumed soon-to-be-starting left tackle "sprained" - his word - his right ... | 8 |
Schmid falls out of orbit
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Galaxy has sacked coach Sigi Schmid despite leading the Western Conference and League with 34 points. | 8 |
British Police Charge 8 in Terror Roundup
LONDON Aug. 17, 2004 Police charged eight men with terrorist offenses Tuesday, including some accused of possessing surveillance plans of financial institutions in New York City, Washington and New Jersey. | 11 |
More Trouble In Iraq; Delegation Delays Trip To Meet Radical Cleric
A delegation of Iraqis hoping to help negotiate an end to an uprising in Najaf was forced to delay its mission Tuesday. | 11 |
Massacre Threatens to Derail Congolese Peace Process
The bodies of about 160 Congolese Tutsis killed in Burundi during the weekend were buried on Monday, but the impact of the massacre is just beginning to be felt. A former rebel group now in the transitional government in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... | 11 |
Sharon OKs 1,000 new settlement homes
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved tenders to build 1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank, plans that had been shelved earlier to avoid discord with Washington, political sources say. | 11 |
Researchers Find New Species of Bird
MANILA, Philippines - Filipino and British wildlife researchers say they've stumbled upon what appears to be a new species of flightless bird found only on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern ... | 11 |
I'm innocent, says Greek Olympic champion Kenteris
Olympic champion Kostas Kenteris, who is likely to be expelled from the Olympics for missing a doping test, said Tuesday that he is not a drugs cheat. | 11 |
Jacko pre-trial ploy to collar 'Mad Dog'
WEARING a dazzling white suit with a yellow armband, Michael Jackson arrived at a Californian courthouse yesterday to confront the criminal prosecutor who has been trying to imprison him for more than a decade. | 11 |
Hollywood News > Singer Courtney Love to face trial in drug case:
A Los Angeles court has set Sep 30 as trial date for rock singer Courtney Love on two felony drug possession charges, reports Xinhua. | 11 |
Deadlines Urged for Terror Fixes
Members of the Sept. 11 commission urged Congress yesterday to impose strict deadlines on the Department of Homeland Security to close loopholes in the nation's transportation system, even if it means going up against powerful ... | 12 |
Two dead, Death Valley National Park closed by flooding
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK Authorities say at least two people were killed in heavy flooding in the Mojave Desert. | 12 |
Seven die as Sadr mission delayed
SEVEN people were killed and 42 wounded in a mortar attack on a Baghdad police station last night, as heavy fighting between US-led forces and Shi'ite militia shook the holy city of Najaf and a high-ranking secret policeman of the Saddam-era was arrested. | 13 |
Sharon OKs 1,000 new settlement homes
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved tenders to build 1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank, plans that had been shelved earlier to avoid discord with Washington, political sources say. | 13 |
British Police Charge 8 in Terror Roundup
LONDON Aug. 17, 2004 Police charged eight men with terrorist offenses Tuesday, including some accused of possessing surveillance plans of financial institutions in New York City, Washington and New Jersey. | 13 |
Kidnapped reporter: Fiancee's plea
PARIS, France -- The French fiancee of a US journalist kidnapped in Iraq has made an appeal for his release, saying her partner was only doing his job. | 13 |
Leonel Fernandez returns to presidency
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - President Leonel Fernandez yesterday returned to power four years after leaving office, proclaiming a "period of austerity" and pledging deep spending cuts to help the Dominican Republic out of its worst economic ... | 13 |
Germans demonstrate against cuts to benefits
Berlin -- Police said 15,000 demonstrators brought protests against benefit cuts to the German capital yesterday, marching to the headquarters of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats in central Berlin. | 13 |
German convert to Islam describes meeting 9/11 suicide pilot
HAMBURG - A German who converted to Islam testified Tuesday to a Hamburg court about how he became acquainted with the main 11 September suicide attacker, Mohammed Atta, in a city mosque. | 13 |
Ex-colleague backs Scrafton on PM's call
A FORMER senior Defence Department bureaucrat last night backed her former colleague Michael Scrafton's version of a phone call with John Howard over the children overboard affair. | 13 |
Stocks Up on Earnings, Oil, Economic Data
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, getting a boost from some strong retail earnings, lower oil prices and two separate economic reports that showed inflationary pressure was held in check and U.S. housing starts rebounded sharply in July. | 0 |
IBM expands into Danish IT services market
Continuing its assault on the European IT outsourcing market, IBM Corp. has signed agreements to buy two Danish IT services companies and another to provide IT services to one of the country's largest banks. | 6 |
Celebrity Dramas Playing Out in Courtroom (AP)
AP - The King of Pop, complete with golden armband, returned to court in the child-molestation case against him as supporters cheered. Courtney Love received a date for her trial on drug charges. Prosecutors lost a key appeal in the rape case against NBA star Kobe Bryant. | 1 |
Iverson Fractures Thumb But Aims to Play
ATHENS (Reuters) - U.S. point guard Allen Iverson has a fractured thumb on his shooting hand but is expected to play on Tuesday night against Greece, a U.S. basketball spokesman said. | 8 |
Medical Examiner Finds No Injuries on Thanou-Source
ATHENS (Reuters) - A medical examiner has found that Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was in hospital with fellow athlete Costas Kenteris, had no injuries, a judicial source said on Tuesday. | 8 |
Another Setback for U.S. as Iverson Breaks His Thumb
Allen Iverson has a fractured thumb but will try to play in today's basketball game against Greece. He suffered the injury in a loss to Puerto Rico on Sunday. | 8 |
Berlusconi and Blair hope for end to Najaf fighting (AFP)
AFP - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed hope that the new Iraqi government and its US allies reach a solution to the conflict in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. | 13 |
Britain Charges Suspects in U.S.-Linked Terror Case
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain charged eight men on Tuesday with conspiracy to murder and other terrorism charges, some relating to plans for U.S. buildings such as the New York Stock Exchange that were the subject of terrorism alerts this month. | 13 |
No flood warning issued for Boscastle
Environment Agency admits it did not issue specific flood warning for the three rivers that flooded the Cornish village. | 10 |
Fitch: Hurricane Charley the third worst insurance loss in US history
Fitch Ratings believes that even if the damage caused by Hurricane Charley -- estimated as a $5 billion to $10 billion insurance loss -- comes in at the low end of the estimates, it will rank the storm as the third largest insured US hurricane loss in ... | 0 |
Yukos Can Ship Oil Amid Tax Dispute, Russia Rail Says (Update5)
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's state-owned railway, the shipper of a fourth of OAO Yukos Oil Co.'s crude oil, said it will guarantee exports, the clearest sign yet President Vladimir Putin wants to ensure supplies to world markets. | 0 |
Mounties Probe Nortel
Canadian authorities will begin a criminal investigation into financial accounting woes at Nortel Networks , the company said today. | 0 |
Construction driving solid product demand
SURGING demand in heavy construction should outweigh any downturn in new home building, according to OneSteel and Boral. | 0 |
Moore left leaning on his own
Michael Moore is like a peculiar left-leaning uncle who guffaws with scorn through 60 Minutes every Sunday night. Picture:AFP ... | 1 |
More Olympics, More Big Ratings for NBC Monday
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Monday, Aug. 16, 2004 Michael Phelps' bid to equal Mark Spitz's record of seven swimming gold medals ended Monday, but NBC continued its strong ratings drive with the Summer Olympics. NBC averaged a 16.4 ... | 1 |
Babies bake as moms fail to heed sun risk
Sunburns can increase your risk of skin cancer, but apparently parents aren't taking that message to heart when it comes to their toddlers. | 3 |
Real slashes song prices in online music battle
In a move likely to step up the digital music dispute between RealNetworks Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., Real slashed prices at its online music store on Tuesday, offering songs and albums for a limited time at nearly half of what Apple charges at its ... | 6 |
Discovery of Rail points to fragile biodiversity: Birdlife Intl
The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP. | 6 |
Symantec Upgrades Norton Security Products
Symantec has unveiled new versions of its Norton security products--beefing up some of the real-time and automated features--and will release them in the next few weeks. | 6 |
Iverson suffers fractures thumb
ATHENS US men's basketball player Allen Iverson suffered a fractured right thumb on his shooting hand, though he is expected to try to play tonight against Greece. | 8 |
Pranab Mukherjee congratulates Rathore
Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday congratulated double trap shooter Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on becoming the first Indian to win a silver medal in an individual event at the Olympics. | 8 |
Eriksson says Beckham "hungry'' ahead of friendly
NEWCASTLE, England (AP) - David Beckham is ``hungry'' and has a point to prove following Euro 2004, England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said Tuesday as he named his starting lineup for a friendly against Ukraine. | 8 |
Iliadis Takes Greece's Second Gold with Judo Win
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek teenager Ilias Iliadis swept up the Olympic host country's second gold medal on Tuesday, winning the men's judo under 81kg category. | 8 |
Bell set for Test debut
Ian Bell is almost certain to make his England Test debut on Thursday in the final match against West Indies. | 8 |
Forwards providing platform: Young
LOOSEHEAD prop Bill Young believes a change in attitude by the forwards has played a key role in taking the Wallabies to the threshold of winning the Tri-Nations trophy. | 8 |
Union to Investigate Cowboys
NFL Players Association officials plan to look into allegations that the Dallas Cowboys administered drug tests to their players, including quarterback Quincy Carter. | 8 |
Israel Ends West Bank Construction Freeze
JERUSALEM Aug. 17, 2004 The Israeli government issued bids Tuesday for 1,000 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements, insisting the construction has Washington's tacit approval even though it violates a US-backed peace plan. | 11 |
Fischer finds mate but can't check US chasers
WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer's plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday. | 11 |
Fitch: Hurricane Charley the third worst insurance loss in US history
Fitch Ratings believes that even if the damage caused by Hurricane Charley -- estimated as a $5 billion to $10 billion insurance loss -- comes in at the low end of the estimates, it will rank the storm as the third largest insured US hurricane loss in ... | 11 |
Real slashes song prices in online music battle
In a move likely to step up the digital music dispute between RealNetworks Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., Real slashed prices at its online music store on Tuesday, offering songs and albums for a limited time at nearly half of what Apple charges at its ... | 11 |
Iverson suffers fractures thumb
ATHENS US men's basketball player Allen Iverson suffered a fractured right thumb on his shooting hand, though he is expected to try to play tonight against Greece. | 11 |
Rescue continues after UK floods
LONDON, England -- A massive rescue operation is continuing for 15 people missing from a flood-ravaged coastal town in southwestern England. | 11 |
Previewing Amber Frey's cross-examination
As we anticipate the cross-examination of Amber Frey by Scott Peterson's attorney (this could happen as early as Tuesday) let me tell you about the issues that could potentially be brought up that I don't care about. | 12 |
Israel Ends West Bank Construction Freeze
JERUSALEM Aug. 17, 2004 The Israeli government issued bids Tuesday for 1,000 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements, insisting the construction has Washington's tacit approval even though it violates a US-backed peace plan. | 13 |
Fischer finds mate but can't check US chasers
WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer's plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday. | 13 |
US brokers ceasefire between Afghan warring warlords
KABUL, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The warring warlords in the west Afghanistan have agreed to hold a ceasefire Tuesday afternoon, US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said here. | 13 |
Schroeder "adopts Russian girl"
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife, Doris, have adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, German newspapers have reported. | 13 |
Hurricane Charley Tears Into Outback (Reuters)
Reuters - Outback Steakhouse Inc. (OSI.N) on
Tuesday said it lost about 130 operating days and up to $2
million in revenue because it had to close some restaurants in
the South due to Hurricane Charley. | 0 |
Motorola Expects Strong Sales in 2nd Half
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MOT.N&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MOT.N</A>, the second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it expects to sustain strong sales growth in the second half of 2004 on new handsets, sparking its stock to rise as much as 7 percent. | 0 |
Hurricane Charley Tears Into Outback
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outback Steakhouse Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=OSI.N&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">OSI.N</A> on Tuesday said it lost about 130 operating days and up to $2 million in revenue because it had to close some restaurants in the South due to Hurricane Charley. | 0 |
Business Objects to bundle IBM tools
The analytics and reporting software maker will begin selling IBM's mainframe access software. | 6 |
Microsoft is right, and so are ID cards
<strong>Letters</strong> Blimey | 6 |
Specter Criticizes US Airways Dropping Flights to Frankfurt
Pittsburgh (AP) Republican US Senator Arlen Specter says he'll ask US Airways officials to reconsiders their decision to end daily nonstop flights between Pittsburgh and Frankfurt, Germany this fall. | 2 |
Polish Oil Company Dismisses Its CEO
The supervisory board of oil refiner PKN Orlen SA, one of Poland's largest companies, dismissed the firm's chief executive Tuesday over irregularities in his election to the post last month. | 2 |
German investor confidence plummets
The ZEW institute said its expectations indicator, based on a survey of around 300 analysts and institutional investors, dropped more than expected to 45.3, the lowest since 41.9 in July 2003, from 48.4 in ... | 2 |
Germany Shaken by U.S. Plans to Withdraw Troops
Germany said Tuesday U.S. plans to pull out 30,000 troops were a sign Europe's divisions had healed, but communities hit by the decision warned they were headed for economic disaster. | 2 |
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