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J amp;J May End Stent Shortcomings With Guidant Buy Credit Suisse First Boston maintained quot;neutral quot; ratings on Guidant (nyse: GDT - news - people ) and Johnson amp; Johnson (nyse: JNJ - news - people ), saying a near-term acquisition of the former by the latter values Guidant at \$76. | 2 |
Japan #39;s Nikkei Falls; Nintendo, Sharp Drop on Earnings Concern Japan #39;s Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell for the first day in four. Nintendo Co. and Sharp Co. slid after brokerages cut ratings on the companies on concern that earnings growth may slow. | 2 |
Drug Stocks Fall as Journal Blasts FDA (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of large U.S. and European drug\makers fell on Thursday after a prominent cardiologist\questioned the safety of new arthritis drugs and the\performance of U.S. regulators in monitoring drug safety. | 2 |
Officials warn of Darfur ticking time bomb African authorities are warning of a further disaster in Darfur as massive quantities of arms and ammunition pour into the region. | 0 |
Pen Trick on Bike Locks Could Cost Firms Millions on Friday sought a recall of many U-shaped locks after word spread that an ordinary pen could pick what had been thought to be some of the toughest locks. | 2 |
FCC Asserts Role as Internet Phone Regulator (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The Federal Communications Commission said yesterday that the federal government, not states, has the authority to regulate phone service provided over the Internet. | 3 |
Ashcroft 'to defend' Patriot Act The US Attorney General says a court ruling attacking the Patriot Act as unconstitutional is likely to go to appeal. | 0 |
Atletico Madrid complete deal for Birmingham #39;s Gronkjaer Birmingham managing director Karren Brady and Gronkjaer #39;s agent, Vincenzo Morabito, were both in Madrid to finalise terms with Atletico officials. | 1 |
Planets form like #39;dust bunnies #39; New observations of dust around young stars suggest collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent. But that doesn #39;t likely stop the formation | 3 |
AstraZeneca hit by drug rejection Shares in drug giant AstraZeneca fall after a US medical panel recommends that regulators reject its new drug Exanta. | 0 |
Unlocking the chip's inner Hemingway Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. Missing Link | 3 |
Before the Bell - Nastech soars 23 pct Shares of Nastech Pharmaceutical Co. Inc. (NSTK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped 23 percent before the bell on Monday after the company said it tied up with Merck amp; Co. | 2 |
Marseille to hire Troussier Marseille, France (Sports Network) - French power Marseille have reached an quot;agreement in principal quot; for Philippe Troussier to become its new head coach. | 1 |
Speculation about Tedford dominates Big Game buildup It #39;s Big Game week in the Bay Area, and Jeff Tedford has dominated the headlines. The California coach preaches a team-first dogma, so he probably wasn #39;t happy that speculation about his future swamped the pregame coverage. | 1 |
Longhorns aim to end their Sooners skid in classic football <b>...</b> Mack Brown and his most important supporters believe his tenure at Texas should not be defined by a four-game losing streak to Bob Stoops and the Oklahoma Sooners. | 1 |
Kansas St. Wildcats Sproles ran for 221 yards and a touchdown to lead Kansas State to a lackluster 27-13 victory over Division I-AA Western Kentucky in the season opener for both teams. | 1 |
Miners Help European Stocks Turn Around (Reuters) Reuters - Basic producers helped European shares\turn positive on Friday, but telecoms firm Cable Wireless\bucked the firmer trend after unveiling a hefty investment and\volatile oil prices kept investors cautious. | 3 |
Darwin #39;s expulsion sparks protests BELGRADE - Serbia #39;s Education Minister was ridiculed in cartoons and pelted with resignation demands on Thursday for ejecting Darwin from school classrooms in favour of Old Testament #39;creationism #39;. | 3 |
No Black Friday blues as green flows like wine An accident has slowed Jacqueline Walker #39;s holiday shopping this year, but it couldn #39;t keep her away from the deals on Friday. | 2 |
Internet worm disguises itself as e-Christmas card HELSINKI - Internet security experts are warning about a mass-mailing worm with the subject line quot;Merry Christmas quot; or quot;Happy Holidays. | 3 |
Iraq Rebels Hit Back Amid Falluja Battles (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. troops fought to crush\resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels\hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that\killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street. | 0 |
WADA Sanctions \$1.47 Million Rise in Expenditure The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has approved a \$1.47 million increase in its expenditure budget for next year. The rise will lift WADA #39;s budget to \$21.7 million, the Montreal-based | 1 |
Lithuania Reaches Semifinals With a different star but the same team concept, Lithuania reached the men's basketball semifinals for the fourth straight Olympics. | 1 |
Billion-Dollar Sex Joke Sirius signs Howard Stern to a multiyear deal, and "investors" lose their minds. | 2 |
Record 2,600 football hooligans get game bans A record 2,596 convicted hooligans have been barred from attending football matches both at home and abroad for up to ten years, the Home Office announced yesterday. | 1 |
FCC is watching SBC #39;s VoIP charge WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission is keeping and eye on SBC Communications #39; new connection charge for calls made over the Internet. | 2 |
For 1,000 Troops, There Is No Going Home The roster of the dead in Iraq is a portrait of a military in transition, with ever-widening roles and costs for the country's part-time soldiers, women and Hispanics. | 0 |
Nepalese rally for democracy KATHMANDU: Thousands of opposition party supporters rallied in the Nepalese capital yesterday demanding the king return sovereignty to the people. | 0 |
I.B.M. Division Headed to China Has Made No Profit in 3 1/2 Years I.B.M. said that the personal computer business it was selling to the Lenovo Group of China had not made a profit for three and a half years. | 3 |
Continental takes part in upstart ticket network Feeling continued pressure from the low-cost carriers, Continental Airlines is joining six other airlines in a ticket distribution network that will save them money. | 2 |
Fonterra bids US\$1 billion to buy out National Foods Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd, the world #39;s largest dairy exporter, offered A\$1.34 billion (US\$1 billion) for the shares it does not own in National Foods Ltd, to expand milk sales in Australia and Asia. | 2 |
Egyptians close off bombed hotel With Israeli rescue workers gone, the Egyptian military closed off the scene of a luxury hotel bombing that targeted Israeli tourists to clear more debris yesterday and collect evidence for investigators tracing the explosives and vehicles. | 0 |
WHO calms fears over human-to-human bird flu The World Health Organization on Tuesday downplayed concerns over human-to-human transmission of bird flu, after authorities in Thailand confirmed that a woman who died of the virus probably contracted it from her daughter. | 0 |
Terror Plot At Michigan High School A seventeen year old student is arrested after authorities were told of his plans to blow up his high school. Clinton Township Police said the boy was making threats on many online chat rooms. | 3 |
China Party Chief Rules Out Multi-Party Democracy BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao ruled out multi-party democracy on Wednesday on the eve of a key meeting aimed at tightening the party's grip on power. | 0 |
Zapatero Says Aznar Deceived Spain Over Train Bombs MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's prime minister accused the previous government of deceiving the public about who carried out the March 11 train bombings and of erasing computer records for the crucial three days between then and elections. | 0 |
Brazil Economy Gets Vote of Confidence Brazil #39;s government got a big boost Friday when the new head of the International Monetary Fund praised its economic policy and economists raised their growth forecast for the continent #39;s largest economy. | 2 |
IAAE: hundreds of tons of explosives lost in Iraq The International Agency for Atomic Energy (IAAE ) stressed that hundreds of tons of traditional explosives were missing from the Iraqi military arsenal that used to be under the rule of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. | 0 |
Canadian rocket launch delayed until January EDMONTON - When the Da Vinci Project rocket finally makes an attempt to fly into outer space next year, it will carry aloft a soccer ball once kicked by English footballer David Beckham and an Ellen DeGeneres doll dressed in a flight suit. | 3 |
Early goal ends Rangers #39; run RANGERS #39; 16-match unbeaten record was brought to an end with this UEFA Cup defeat in Holland today. Danny Landzaat grabbed the only goal of the game after just seven minutes, finishing off a move which involved Stein Huysegms and Martijn Meerdink. | 1 |
Lebanon arrests 2 leaders BEIRUT Lebanon said Wednesday it had arrested 10 members of a Qaeda-linked group planning to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut using a car packed with 300 kilograms of the explosive TNT. | 0 |
BlackBerrys sync with Mac OS X Software developer Information Appliance Associates announced Thursday the release of an application synchronizing Research In Motion #39;s BlackBerry devices with Apple #39;s Mac OS X. | 3 |
Weakened Arafat Heads for France, Cancer Suspected RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, flew for treatment in France on Friday from the besieged West Bank headquarters where he had been pinned for over 2-1/2 years. | 0 |
Microsoft connects with SAP A new add-on for Office Project Server 2003 includes tools for connecting to HR software from SAP. | 3 |
BREAKING POINT DJIBRIL CISSE faces a year out of football with a horror double leg-break that has plunged Liverpool into a major crisis. French striker Cisse snapped two bones in his left leg above the ankle | 1 |
Williams-Sonoma Lowers Forecast Housewares retailer Williams-Sonoma Inc. (WSM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday cut its forecasts for fourth-quarter sales and earnings per share, and its shares fell 6 percent. | 2 |
Careful Planning and Teamwork Pays Off for Europe BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - In the end, Europe's crushing Ryder Cup victory over the U.S. was all about better teamwork, hungrier players, putts made when they mattered most and astute captaincy by Bernhard Langer. | 1 |
E-Guinea to question Thatcher in SA State prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea have requested permission to question Mark Thatcher over his alleged involvement in coup attempt on President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. | 0 |
No word on trapped China miners A gas explosion in a state-owned mine in China has left 166 miners trapped underground with no means of contact. Nearly 300 miners were in Chenjiashan mine in Shaanxi province when the blast happened on Sunday morning, but 127 escaped, said state media. | 0 |
Voting Machines Missing for La. Election NEW ORLEANS - Many New Orleans voters were unable to cast ballots Saturday on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage because voting machines had not been delivered to polling places, a state official said. At least 35 precincts did not have voting machines because drivers hired to deliver the machines had apparently not shown up for work, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for Secretary of State Fox McKeithen... | 0 |
Orange launches delayed 3G service (FT.com) FT.com - Orange on Monday launched its long-delayed 3G mobile phone services in the UK, and predicted it would sell between 1.5 and 2m branded handsets by the end of 2006. | 3 |
F.D.A. Panel Says Sex Patch Needs More Testing A hormone patch that works to restore a woman's sex drive should not be approved until additional studies to determine its risk, federal health advisers said today. | 2 |
Summer of spam surges For spammers, it #39;s been a summer of love. Two newly issued reports tracking the circulation of unsolicited e-mails say pornographic spam dominated this summer, nearly all of it originating from Internet addresses in North America. | 3 |
Abductions in Iraq a big business Groups tied to Abu Musab Zarqawi claim a major car bombing Tuesday, taking Westerners as hostages. | 0 |
Gunmen Kidnap 2 Americans, Briton in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq. Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col... | 0 |
Federer, Hewitt in Final Roger Federer keeps up his bid to become the first man since 1988 to win three Grand Slam titles in a year, and sets up a showdown with Lleyton Hewitt in the U.S. Open final. | 1 |
2 Chinese kidnapped in Pakistan, rescue underway Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani guard were kidnapped early Saturday in Pakistan #39;s South Waziristan tribal area and the rescue work was underway, said a senior Chinese diplomat. | 0 |
Freescale Unveils Dual Core Processor Architecture How about an embedded processor that #39;s designed to deliver a quantum leap in performance and system bandwidth while keeping power in check? | 3 |
Game over: NHL, its players have accomplished nothing EDMONTON - This NHL season died from neglect ages ago and on Tuesday it became obvious. Two wrongs make for last rites. The NHL and its players have accomplished nothing through 90 days of this lockout other | 1 |
Ukraine candidate placates 'foes' Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko says there will be no political witch-hunt if he becomes president. | 0 |
Update 1: Music Industry Group Launches Piracy Suits The international record industry escalated its fight against music piracy Thursday, announcing that it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups it accuses of illegally sharing music through the Internet. | 3 |
Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns Profits Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Companies posted a drop in quarterly profits on Wednesday, surprising some investors one day after two other big investment banks reported a rise in earnings. | 2 |
Donkeys and satellite phones pave the way for Afghan elections (AFP) AFP - Organising the first presidential election in Afghanistan, a country largely without power, roads or literacy, has required a leap of imagination that has encompassed everything from donkeys to satellite phones. | 0 |
The Long and Blinding Show Can you believe these baseball games of late? They are tension-filled, comeback-laden, back-and-forth, down-to-the-last-out sporting gems. And they are unwatchable. | 1 |
Learn to locate all of those missing Apple iTunes files Q:I HAVE SOME SONGS that play fine with the iTunes program, but when I look for the song files on my hard drive, I can #39;t find them. | 3 |
Toshiba Announces iPod-Ready 80GB Mini Drive Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday a 80 gigabyte (GB), 1.8-inch hard drive that will set off speculation of a new, higher capacity Apple iPod models later in 2005. | 3 |
Veritas buys KVault Software in \$225M deal Storage and backup application vendor Veritas Software Corp. is acquiring e-mail archiving vendor KVault Software Ltd. (KVS) to bolster its offerings to customers. | 3 |
Libya to Host a Mini-Summit on Darfur This Month (Reuters) Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will host\a summit on the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur with\the presidents of Chad, Egypt and Nigeria, a Libyan government\source said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Heinz Kerry Recovers, Attends Parade (AP) AP - Teresa Heinz Kerry was back on the campaign trail at Labor Day parades in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia after a brief hospitalization over the weekend in Iowa because of an upset stomach. | 0 |
Analysis: Tensions over northern Iraq Not for the first time, events in Iraq are straining relations between two traditionally close allies, Turkey and the United States. | 0 |
China's Panchen Lama visits Tibet The boy named by the Chinese authorities as the 11th Panchen Lama visits a temple in Tibet. | 0 |
Landing Site for Huygens On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe will try to descend to the surface of Saturn #39;s largest moon, Titan--a biochemically rich moon dominated by hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. | 3 |
Wal-Mart CEO Sees Culture Change as Lawsuits Mount Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can no longer remain sheltered in its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters while potentially costly lawsuits pile up, Chief Executive Officer Lee Scott said on Wednesday. | 2 |
MCI President Of Enterprise Sales Resigns The top sales executive running one of MCI Inc.'s largest divisions resigned yesterday as the company struggles with rapidly eroding sales. | 3 |
Briefly: Glitches hit some EarthLink-hosted sites roundup Plus: More money for fuel cells...Linux release features Windows support...Gmail delivered to desktops. | 3 |
Clamoring for young QBs Maybe it #39;s too early to anoint Ben Roethlisberger as the next Dan Marino, but I have a feeling that his early success with the Pittsburgh Steelers is going to inspire some changes, perhaps | 1 |
Morrison says Safeway sales still sinking William Morrison Supermarkets says sales have continued to decline at its newly-acquired Safeway stores which have not yet been converted to the Morrisons brand, but sales at converted stores are up. | 2 |
Peace may now stand a chance In his olive nylon bomber jacket, olive fatigue pants and black combat boots, Al-Aqsa Martyr #39;s Brigades member Abu Said sees himself as a soldier, fighting Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. | 0 |
Safin reaches final in Paris Paris, France (Sports Network) - Marat Safin moved into the final of the BNP Paribas Masters with a straight-set victory over Guillermo Canas on Saturday. | 1 |
New McDonald #39;s Chief Vows to Keep Strategy Unchanged The new chief executive of the McDonald #39;s Corporation, James A. Skinner, promised yesterday to continue the positive momentum the company has had for the last 18 months and make no significant | 2 |
Delta pilots OK 32.5 pay cut ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines pilots handed the struggling airline a huge victory yesterday in its effort to avoid bankruptcy, agreeing to slash their salaries by more than \$1 billion annually and forgo pay raises through 2009. | 2 |
How big is #39;Halo 2 #39;? Xbox game could make \$75 million in 24 hours, give Grand Theft Auto a run for its money. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - How big is quot;Halo 2 quot;? | 3 |
Yahoo CEO Sees No Need to Join Media Merger Frenzy (Reuters) Reuters - In an era of widespread media\consolidation, Internet media company Yahoo Inc. \believes television networks, movie studios and music companies\should look to it as a partner rather than a merger candidate,\Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Part-Time Soldiers, Injured but Not Yet Home Under a web of Army rules, thousands of part-time soldiers injured on duty in Iraq and elsewhere are navigating a system suited to full-timers. | 0 |
US to seek ouster of IAEA chief WASHINGTON: The Bush administration, unhappy with what it sees as his interference in the US election on the Iraqi explosives issue, would actively seek to oust the UN nuclear watchdog chief if the president is re-elected, a senior official said on Friday | 0 |
TD Buys U.S. Retail Bank, Ups Dividend TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Dominion Bank <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TD.TO target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TD.TO</A>, Canada's second-biggest by assets, said on Thursday it would acquire a majority stake of U.S.-based Banknorth Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=BNK.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">BNK.N</A>, while also boosting its dividend and reporting a 17-percent rise in profits. | 2 |
Monty still coming to terms with marriage split COLIN MONTGOMERIE openly admits he is losing sleep. But there are more serious things than the Ryder Cup on his mind. As he continues his bid to be part of Europes team next month, Montgomerie is still | 1 |
450 Colombian Paramilitaries Disarm Some 450 right-wing paramilitary fighters left Colombia's crowded battlefields, turning in their weapons and asking society to let them back into its fold. | 0 |
Consumers resume optimistic spending Consumer confidence snapped back after the election, and retail spending was strong for a second straight month - signs that shoppers, the stalwarts of the economy, are shrugging off high energy prices and moving on. | 2 |
Blu-ray burns for interactive content Flashy features could tempt consumers--and that tempts Hollywood, which could help Blu-ray beat out a rival technology. | 3 |
Ad Groups Omnicom, WPP See Strong Earns NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global advertising titans Omnicom <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=OMC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">OMC.N</A> and WPP <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WPP.L target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WPP.L</A> <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WPPGY.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WPPGY.O</A>on Tuesday reported third-quarter results that outpaced analyst expectations, sending shares higher on improved confidence in the ad industry. | 2 |
Mine Blast in China Leaves Over 160 Missing A gas explosion blasted through a coal mine in central China today, leaving more than 160 miners missing in what may be the country #39;s worst coal-mine accident in recent years. | 0 |
U.S. Marines Launch Attacks in Fallujah BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the government over Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... | 0 |
UPDATE 1-Tyco says to take charge for bond buy back Tyco International Ltd. (TYC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it repurchased \$350 million of convertible bonds, which will result in a fourth quarter charge of \$167 million | 2 |
Molik on cusp of world top 10 ALICIA Molik has become the first Australian woman in 17 years to win consecutive WTA Tour titles, beating Dinara Safina in the final of the Luxembourg Open. | 1 |
China's central bank tells US not to blame others for economic woes (AFP) AFP - A senior Chinese central bank official has warned the United States not to blame other countries for its own economic difficulties, a report said. | 0 |
Space Station Oxygen Maker Broken The oxygen generator for the International Space Station craps out, leaving the two astronauts on board weighing alternative sources for breathable air. | 3 |
Clough, former Nottingham Forest coach, dies aged 69 Brian Clough, the outspoken soccer manager who led Nottingham Forest to European Cup success in 1979 and 1980, died at Derby City General Hospital in central England. | 1 |
Havana halts EU 'cocktail wars' Cuba restores contacts with eight EU embassies in Havana, ending a bitter row over "dissident cocktail wars". | 0 |
Turkish Captives in Iraq Executed, Videotape Shows A militant group run by a Jordanian-born insurgent released a videotape showing its members killing three men identified as Turkish hostages, according to al-Jazeera television. | 0 |
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