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Army Withholding Halliburton Payments
Halliburton (HAL:NYSE - news - research) sank Tuesday after the Army chose not to extend a deadline for the company to explain its billing in Iraq. | 0 |
ASIAN STRATEGY: DCX sells stake in Hyundai
DaimlerChrysler AG sold its 10.5-percent stake in South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. for $912 million after CEO Juergen Schrempp's plan to win more of the Asian market failed. | 0 |
Air Canada gets green light from creditors
After more than 16 months of restructuring, Air Canada's creditors overwhelming endorsed the airline's new business plan during a meeting at a Montreal hotel Tuesday. | 0 |
'Blair Witch' Cinematographer Killed In Keys Crash
MIAMI -- The cinematographer for the cult hit "The Blair Witch Project" was killed in a plane crash off the Dry Tortugas Saturday. | 1 |
Chiron Wins Bird Flu Vaccine Deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chiron Corp. CHIR.O has won a contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day pandemic," the US ... | 3 |
West Nile virus may be worse in '05, Oregon official says
SALEM, Ore. A dead crow in Oregon's remote southeast corner brought the news: The West Nile virus had arrived in Oregon, previously among the last states to be free of it. | 3 |
Disabili:un sito per scelta vacanze
(ANSA) ROMA, 17 AGO- Le persone disabili hanno quest'anno un sito internet tutto per loro dove poter scegliere dove andare in vacanza: e' 'Superabile.it'. Si tratta del portale dell'Inail sulla disabilita' che pubblica uno speciale 'Vacanze accessibili' ... | 4 |
RealNetworks launches music-download price war
Seattle online media company RealNetworks Inc. on Tuesday said a new campaign to attract subscribers to its music download service will add about a penny per share to its third-quarter net loss. | 6 |
Second Wi-Fi standards group steps forward
A new battle of technologies may be in the offing in the 802.11n arena as 12 key companies have developed a key proposal to counter another one announced last week that is backed by a group of top wireless players. | 6 |
DOD labs get Linux clusters
Linux Networx Inc. delivered two more systems to the Defense Department as part of the military's Technology Insertion 2004 initiative to improve defense laboratories' high-performance computing. | 6 |
Phelps wins gold in the 200-meter butterfly
Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American swimmer Michael Phelps won a gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, one night after he was denied a chance at tying Mark Spitz's record of seven golds in one Olympics. | 8 |
Interesting insight was found while bouncing around during end of PGA
The first rule in being a reporter is that if you see a bunch of fellow ink stain wretches hanging around somewhere, head in the other direction. It's the only way to get fresh information. So Sunday evening, while Vijay Singh and Justin Leonard were ... | 8 |
Federer out of Olympic tennis tournament
CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Swiss tennis star Roger Federer was eliminated from singles competition at the Athens Games on Tuesday. | 8 |
No Gold for Franzi
Germany's Franziska van Almsick failed to win the gold medal in her best event, the 200m freestyle. The world record holder finished a disappointing fifth. The Rumanian swimmer Camelia Potec was first at 1:58,03 minutes. | 8 |
NCAA rejects Bloom's bid to play football, accept endorsements
The NCAA has denied Jeremy Bloom's request to play football at Colorado while accepting endorsements to support his skiing career. | 8 |
Livni: Settlement blocs will be strengthened
The Housing and Construction Ministry on Tuesday published tenders for about 1,001 new housing units in West Bank settlements. | 11 |
Google set to start trading
SAN FRANCISCO - Google looks set to start trading on the Nasdaq today after the web's No 1 search engine asked regulators for final approval to price its closely watched initial public offering. | 11 |
Florida's fiscal shape helps cushion Charley's hit
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Hurricane Charley may have caused up to $15 billion in damage in Florida, but that is not seen immediately hurting the state's credit picture thanks to strong finances and funds in reserve, analysts said ... | 11 |
Oil Prices Rebound Towards Record Highs
Oil prices moved back towards record highs tonight amid continued concerns over soaring demand and tight supplies. | 11 |
RealNetworks launches music-download price war
Seattle online media company RealNetworks Inc. on Tuesday said a new campaign to attract subscribers to its music download service will add about a penny per share to its third-quarter net loss. | 11 |
Phelps wins gold in the 200-meter butterfly
Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American swimmer Michael Phelps won a gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, one night after he was denied a chance at tying Mark Spitz's record of seven golds in one Olympics. | 11 |
Interesting insight was found while bouncing around during end of PGA
The first rule in being a reporter is that if you see a bunch of fellow ink stain wretches hanging around somewhere, head in the other direction. It's the only way to get fresh information. So Sunday evening, while Vijay Singh and Justin Leonard were ... | 11 |
Chiron Wins Bird Flu Vaccine Deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chiron Corp. CHIR.O has won a contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day pandemic," the US ... | 11 |
Crow tests positive for West Nile virus
A dead crow found in Fremont has tested positive for West Nile virus, the fourth case discovered in Alameda County, health officials said Monday. | 12 |
Area volunteers, local store join Charley relief effort in Florida
Six people who left Laurens County Saturday joined hundreds of other volunteers from across the southeast who responded to help those left homeless in Florida by Hurricane Charley. And, Winn-Dixie Stores announced Saturday that all customers across the ... | 12 |
Livni: Settlement blocs will be strengthened
The Housing and Construction Ministry on Tuesday published tenders for about 1,001 new housing units in West Bank settlements. | 13 |
German Chancellor adopts Russian girl
BERLIN (Reuters) - Gerhard Schroeder and his wife Doris have adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, the leader of Schroeder's Social Democrat party says. | 13 |
Israeli soldiers kill boy in Nablus
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers during an incursion into the centre of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to Palestinian medical sources. | 13 |
Don't Marry Until March
Plan a big, fat cheap wedding, and start your coupling with extra cash, not debt. | 0 |
BSkyB sues EDS for breach of contract
Claims 'deceit, negligent misrepresentation' over CRM deal | 6 |
Canadian police back snooping tax
Surveillance surcharge | 6 |
Klochkova Wins 200 IM, Beard Takes Silver (AP)
AP - Yana Klochkova of Ukraine completed an Olympic sweep of the individual medleys, winning gold in the 200-meter IM Tuesday night. Amanda Beard of Irvine, Calif., made a dramatic move from fifth to second on the breaststroke portion and earned the silver in 2:11.70 — her fifth career Olympic medal. | 8 |
U.S. Wins Relay
The United States won the gold medal Tuesday in the men's 800-meter freestyle relay with an American-record time of 7:07.33. | 8 |
Tulsa Killing Sparks War Against Homeless (AP)
AP - A homeless man's fatal beating of a brass-knuckle-wielding bar owner has triggered something approaching a war against Tulsa's homeless population. | 12 |
Man Sentenced in Death at Wis. 'Exorcism' (AP)
AP - A church elder was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for abusing an 8-year-old autistic boy who died in what prosecutors called an exorcism at a storefront church. | 12 |
Slaves' descendants should get tax exemption: US Senate hopeful (AFP)
AFP - American descendants of African slaves should be exempted from US federal taxes for a generation or two to compensate them for the state-sanctioned exploitation of their ancestors, an aspiring US Senate hopeful declared. | 12 |
Judge rejects convicted Rite Aid exec's challenge to secret tapes
Pharmaceutical firm Wyeth said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status to its experimental cancer drug temsirolimus as an initial treatment for patients with advanced kidney ... | 2 |
Polish Anniversary and Harvest Festival
The Polish American Priests Association of Texas and the Seraphic Franciscan Sisters will sponsor their annual Polish Anniversary and Harvest Festival on Sunday, Oct. | 2 |
Chirac's choice of Brussels candidate criticised
Since the new European Commission was unveiled last week by Jos Manuel Barroso, the Portuguese politician succeeding Romano Prodi in the presidency, the French government has insisted it was satisfied with the ... | 2 |
British police charge 8 in terror investigation
British police have charged eight men arrested two weeks ago with terrorism-related offenses, including conspiracy to commit murder. | 2 |
British Police Charge Eight With Terrorist Offenses
British police charged eight men Tuesday with terrorist offenses, including one suspected al-Qaeda operative accused of having surveillance plans of financial institutions in New York, Washington and New Jersey ... | 2 |
Chavez Revitalized by Poll Win, Foes Lick Wounds (Reuters)
Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist
"revolution" and new democratic credentials with his resounding
win in Sunday's referendum. | 13 |
Sudan vows to restore order to Darfur but calls for African peacekeepers (AFP)
AFP - Sudan will take the lead in restoring order to its rebellious Darfur region but needs the support of African peacekeepers and humanitarian aid, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said. | 13 |
Chavez Revitalized by Poll Win, Foes Lick Wounds
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist "revolution" and new democratic credentials with his resounding win in Sunday's referendum. | 13 |
Iraqi Peace Mission in Najaf; U.S. Pounds Militia
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near the country's holiest Islamic sites. | 13 |
Rumsfeld Warns Against Fixing Intelligence in 'Single Stroke'
The secretary of defense signaled he favors a slower, more cautious approach to revamping U.S. intelligence than the Sept. 11 commission does. | 13 |
Iraqi Peace Mission in Najaf; U.S. Pounds Militia
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near the country's holiest Islamic sites. | 10 |
Parry claims bronze in pool
Briton Stephen Parry finished third in 200m butterfly behind winner Michael Phelps and Takashi Yamamoto. | 10 |
Nortel hit by news of criminal probe
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Nortel Networks shares fell Tuesday after the company said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's informal probe of the company's accounting has now become a criminal investigation. | 0 |
Update 4: Home Depot's 2Q Profit Up on Robust Sales
The Home Depot Inc., buoyed by robust sales, posted nearly a 19 percent jump in second-quarter profit, prompting the retail giant to raise its earnings outlook for all of 2004. | 0 |
Pier 1 Shares Up As Buffett Goes Shopping
Billionaire Warren Buffett redecorated his portfolio with 8 million shares of Pier 1 Imports Inc., sending the home decorating chain's stock higher by some 12 percent in trading on Tuesday. | 0 |
Hurricane Charley hits Outback
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outback Steakhouse Inc. said Tuesday 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 |
Foreign investors boost purchases of US securities: report
WASHINGTON, August 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Foreign investors increased purchases of US securities in June, showing that foreign demand is sufficient to finance the US current account deficit, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. | 0 |
CMA wants governments to sustain doctor levels
The Canadian Medical Association is calling on all levels of government to adopt a policy of self-sufficiency so that by 2015, the vast majority of doctors will have received their undergraduate education in Canada. | 3 |
Inmates With Medical Problems Sleep On Floors
LOS ANGELES Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks. | 3 |
CALCIO - Del Neri: "Cacciato dal Porto per paura del nuovo"
Aveva promesso una spiegazione Gigi Del Neri (foto), ex allenatore miracolo del Chievo e diventato ex anche del Porto che lo ha licenziato dopo neanche un mese di lavoro. Del Neri ha incontrato la stampa in un albergo del centro di Milano per parlare "una ... | 4 |
Intel TV Chip Is Delayed
Intel said it will delay its highly anticipated television chips, based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon, or LCOS, technology, which promises to deliver large screen TVs at a price point half of what they cost today. The chipmaker said the ... | 6 |
TGn Sync Proposes New WLAN Standard
The battle over home entertainment networking is heating up as a coalition proposes yet another standard for the IEEE's consideration. | 6 |
Federer's Games Dream Shattered
ATHENS (Reuters) - Roger Federer was bundled out of the Olympic tennis tournament Tuesday by unheralded Czech Tomas Berdych. | 8 |
Ruling bars Edwards from Athens competition
ATHENS, Greece -- US sprinter Torri Edwards' suspension was upheld by a panel of three international arbitrators Tuesday, leaving the reigning 100-meter world champion unable to compete at the Olympics. | 8 |
US women's soccer advances despite tie
Thessaloniki, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States looked ready to emerge from the opening round of group play at the Athens Olympics with a perfect record, until Australia used a late tally to earn a 1-1 draw with the powerful Americans on Tuesday ... | 8 |
NCAA rules against Bloom reinstatement
Boulder, CO (Sports Network) - The NCAA denied a request by Jeremy Bloom to play football at the University of Colorado while collecting endorsement money to support his pro skiing career. | 8 |
US soldier killed in eastern Baghdad-military
BAGHDAD, Iraq One US soldier was killed and several others were wounded in clashes with Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen in a Baghdad suburb Monday, the US military said Tuesday. | 11 |
CRS Provides Relief to Congolese Refugees After Massacre
A massacre in Gatumba refugee camp in the small east African country of Burundi on Friday, August 13th has resulted in at least 164 Congolese dead, 107 injured, and a completely leveled and destroyed camp, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) reported today. | 11 |
CMA wants governments to sustain doctor levels
The Canadian Medical Association is calling on all levels of government to adopt a policy of self-sufficiency so that by 2015, the vast majority of doctors will have received their undergraduate education in Canada. | 11 |
Economists: Terrorism, Budget Deficit Economy's Greatest Threats
A recent survey of US economists says terrorism and a growing budget deficit are the greatest immediate threats to the American economy. | 12 |
US soldier killed in eastern Baghdad-military
BAGHDAD, Iraq One US soldier was killed and several others were wounded in clashes with Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen in a Baghdad suburb Monday, the US military said Tuesday. | 13 |
CRS Provides Relief to Congolese Refugees After Massacre
A massacre in Gatumba refugee camp in the small east African country of Burundi on Friday, August 13th has resulted in at least 164 Congolese dead, 107 injured, and a completely leveled and destroyed camp, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) reported today. | 13 |
China urges Pyongyang to take part in working group meeting
All the participants should coordinate, within the shortest possible period, the time of holding the new round of negotiations, China's pointman on North Korea Ning Fukui said in Beijing on Tuesday. | 13 |
Stocks Rise on Economic Data
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks traded higher on Tuesday, shrugging off rebounding oil prices, as several retailers posted strong earnings and two reports eased worries that the U.S. economic recovery is losing steam. | 0 |
Army Won't Pay 15 Pct of Halliburton Bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army will withhold payment on 15 percent of future invoices of Halliburton Co.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HAL.N&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HAL.N</A> logistics deal in Iraq due to a billing dispute that could cost the company $60 million a month, the military said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Last Call for Investors to Bid on Google
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time is running out for prospective investors to submit their offers to buy shares of Google Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GOOG.O&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GOOG.O</A>, the Web's No. 1 search company. | 0 |
Phelps, U.S. Win Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay
ATHENS (Reuters) - Michael Phelps led the United States to a narrow victory in the men's 4x200 meters freestyle relay at the Athens Olympics Tuesday to collect his third gold medal in four days. | 8 |
World 100m Champion Torri Edwards Banned from Games
ATHENS (Reuters) - World 100 meters champion Torri Edwards will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a two-year drugs ban was dismissed Tuesday. | 8 |
Army Won't Pay 15 Pct of Halliburton Bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army will withhold payment on 15 percent of future invoices of Halliburton Co.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HAL.N&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HAL.N</A> logistics deal in Iraq due to a billing dispute that could cost the company $60 million a month, the military said on Tuesday. | 12 |
US-led coalition denies airstrikes in western Afghanistan (AFP)
AFP - The US military denied reports that the coalition in Afghanistan had launched air strikes to quell fighting in the west of the country. | 13 |
Army Won't Pay 15 Pct of Halliburton Bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army will withhold payment on 15 percent of future invoices of Halliburton Co.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=HAL.N&target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">HAL.N</A> logistics deal in Iraq due to a billing dispute that could cost the company $60 million a month, the military said on Tuesday. | 10 |
Wal-Mart's Taxing Comps
Wal-Mart sees August same-store revenues up 2% to 4%. How should investors view this statistical range? | 0 |
Last Call for Investors to Bid on Google (Reuters)
Reuters - Time is running out for prospective
investors to submit their offers to buy shares of Google Inc.
(GOOG.O), the Web's No. 1 search company. | 6 |
GameStop Earnings Up on Software Sales (AP)
AP - Video-game chain GameStop Corp.'s second-quarter earnings rose on strong sales. | 6 |
IBM adds four-way 550 server to new i5 product line
IBM Corp. bolstered the new eServer i5 server lineup with the i5 550, a new system based on the Power 5 chip that can run multiple operating systems. | 6 |
Kerry admits to soft spot for Oscar winner Theron (AFP)
AFP - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry has a soft spot for South African actress Charlize Theron but is adamant that second wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry changed his life, he has told GQ magazine. | 12 |
Costco Faces Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp. was sued on Tuesday for keeping women out of top management posts in a case filed by the same lawyers leading a record-setting sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. | 12 |
Serbia changes national symbols
Serbia's parliament chooses a new national emblem, dropping the communist star, as well as a new national anthem. | 2 |
Firefighters rescue guinea pig from Action Man jam (AFP)
AFP - Firefighters in Birmingham, England swung into action to rescue a guinea pig called Heidi after she got stuck inside an Action Man toy car. | 2 |
Papua New Guinea, the world's next AIDS frontier (AFP)
AFP - The old man lay unattended in the shack which served as a morgue for the General Hospital in Mount Hagen, a busy town in the restive highlands of central Papua New Guinea. | 13 |
Kerry admits to soft spot for Oscar winner Theron (AFP)
AFP - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry has a soft spot for South African actress Charlize Theron but is adamant that second wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry changed his life, he has told GQ magazine. | 13 |
Twelve Afghan hunger strikers in Indonesian hospital (AFP)
AFP - Twelve Afghans weakened by a hunger strike protest against a United Nations decision denying them refugee status are in hospital, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. | 13 |
Serbia changes national symbols
Serbia's parliament chooses a new national emblem, dropping the communist star, as well as a new national anthem. | 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 |
Cruise to Star in 'War of the Worlds'
NEW YORK - "No one would have believed ... that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligence greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own." "The War of the Worlds," the classic H.G... | 13 |
Phelps Wins Second Gold Medal
ATHENS, Greece - His quest to surpass Mark Spitz out of the way, Michael Phelps got back to winning gold. The 19-year-old from Baltimore claimed his second gold medal of the Athens Games in the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, though he was a bit disappointed at failing to break his own world record... | 13 |
Ruling Keeps Torri Edwards Out of Olympics
ATHENS, Greece - U.S. sprinter Torri Edwards was knocked out of the Olympics for good Tuesday when an arbitration panel upheld her two-year drug suspension, rejecting her arguments that she took a banned stimulant by accident... | 13 |
Stocks Climb on Drop in Consumer Prices
NEW YORK - Stocks rose for a second straight session Tuesday as a drop in consumer prices 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 |
Rumsfeld Cautions on Intelligence Reform
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld struck a cautious tone Tuesday on the need for a national intelligence director, saying any changes should not create new barriers between war fighters and agencies that collect intelligence... | 13 |
US Army to withhold portion of Halliburton payments
The billing dispute between the US Army and Houston-based Halliburton Co. continues as the Army on Tuesday said it would withhold paying 15 percent of future invoices from Halliburton. | 0 |
Update 2: Canada Launches Probe of Nortel Accounting
Canadian officials are opening a criminal investigation into accounting at Nortel Networks Corp. Shares in the telecom-equipment maker edged lower Tuesday. | 0 |
Kansas City Futures Exchange to E-Trade
The Kansas City Board of Trade will begin electronic trading in its wheat and stock index futures contracts later this year. | 0 |
Yahoo! Ups Ante for Small Businesses
Web giant Yahoo! is gambling that price cuts on its domain name registration and Web hosting products will make it more competitive with discounters in the space -- which means that small businesses looking to move online get a sweeter deal through ... | 0 |
New "Survivor" Cast Introduced
A mechanical bull operator, a sheep farmer and a master barber who's also a nuclear weapons specialist are among the 18 castaways who'll compete for $1 million in the next edition of "Survivor." ... | 1 |
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