ECB spokeswoman, Regina Schueller, declined to comment on a report in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that the ECB council will discuss Mr. Fazio's role in the takeover fight at its Sept. 15 meeting.
Regina Shueller works for Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmedinejad was attacked by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.
Justice Carlos Valencia was killed on 28 July.
He met U.S. President, George W. Bush, in Washington and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London.
Washington is part of London.
Sunday's earthquake was felt in the southern Indian city of Madras on the mainland, as well as other parts of south India. The Naval meteorological office in Port Blair said it was the second biggest aftershock after the Dec. 26 earthquake.
The city of Madras is located in Southern India.
A powerful bomb, hidden in a truck, exploded outside the headquarters of Colombia's secret police, Wednesday, causing severe damage, Bogota mayor Andres Pastrana said.
An attempt on Andres Pastrana's life was carried out using a powerful bomb.
Muslims make up some 3.2 million of Germany's 82 million people, and Turks represent two thirds of the minority.
82 million people live in Germany.
A.C. Milan is in second place with 13 points, after two first-half goals from captain Paolo Maldini earned them a 2-1 victory over Reggina.
Paolo Maldini plays for Reggina.
On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.
Four people were injured by a grenade.
During that time, Wilson received the best-play Tony Award for "Fences," plus best-play Tony nominations for six of his other plays, the Pulitzer Prize for both "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," and (a record) seven New York Drama Critics' Circle prizes.
Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Muslims make up some 3.2 million of Germany's 82 million people, and Turks represent two thirds of the minority.
3.2 million Muslims live in Germany.
"The capacity people have to adjust and make peace with a new situation, even if they feel vulnerable, is really remarkable," said Randy Quevillon, chair of the psychology department and the Disaster Mental Health Institute at the University of South Dakota.
Randy Quevillon is employed at the University of South Dakota.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmadinejad attacked the UN Security Council.
Arsenal sneaked a 1-0 victory over Birmingham at Highbury, taking advantage of Stephen Clemence's own-goal in the 81st minute.
Arsenal lost to Birmingham.
On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.
A patrol car was attacked by the San Carlos Battalion.
Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.
Several honorary consuls were kidnapped on 4 May 88.
The FMLN has prudently taken time before adopting a definite position, meanwhile the government has increased its detentions and attacked the residences of leaders of the Social Christian People's Movement.
Social Christian People's Movement was attacked by FMLN.
"A force majeure is an act of God," said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests.
Phil Wittmann works for Tom Benson.
Co-producing the film is Happy Madison, the company owned by Sandler, who has been a compatriot of Schneider's since they met early in their careers, as mutually struggling stand-up comedians in Los Angeles.
Happy Madison works for the company owned by Sandler.
Although they were born on different planets, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's new son and Superman have something in common - both were named Kal-el.
Nicolas Cage's son is called Kal-el.
With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.
Christopher Hill works for the US.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.
Antonio Fazio works for the Bank of Italy.
The assassins of former Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar Trint are presumably members of the Maoist terrorist organization, Shining Path, since the counterterrorism division has identified one of them as Gerardo Olivos Silva, through a composite made from witness' reports.
Gerardo Olivos Silva is a member of the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path.
Linda Johnson, who lives with her husband, Charles, and two cats in a rented one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, said Katrina has made her realize she needs to gather together, in one accessible place, her scattered disaster supplies.
Linda Johnson is married to Charles.
Mexico City (Mexico), 12 Jan 90 (DPA) - Salvadoran Social Democratic politician Hector Oqueli Colindres was kidnapped today, in Guatemala city, along with Guatemalan Social Democratic leader Gilda Flores, his party, in Mexico City, reported.
Hector Oqueli Colindres comes from El Salvador.
From Joss Stone to Keith Richards to Sting, the artists joining Les on the rock-charged album share one clear common bond: Les Paul is one of their most respected and beloved mentors.
Eric Clapton is in business with Les Paul.
Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday that it has developed the first laptop computer with its new HD DVD drive: a next-generation disc format it is promoting over a rival standard pushed by Sony Corp.
Toshiba Corp.'s headquarters is in Japan.
Tilda Swinton has a prominent role as the White Witch in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", coming out in December.
Tilda Swinton plays the part of the White Witch.
Patricia Amy Messier and Eugene W. Weaver were married May 28 at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church in North Palm Beach.
Eugene W. Weaver is the husband of Patricia Amy.
FMLN reports to our people, and to the people of the world, that the massacre against the Salvadoran Workers National Union Federation [Fenastras] was carried out by Colonel Elena Fuente, as the head of the morbid death squad of the army's 1st Infantry Brigade, in response to our military attack on the army staff.
Fenastras was attacked by FMLN.
Two new Les Paul books arrive in stores this year: The Les Paul Legacy by Rob Lawrence is due from Hal Leonard Publishing on October 27.
Rob Lawrence works for The Les Paul Legacy.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's [FMLN] urban commandos have denied reports they participated in an attack on vice president-elect Francisco Merino's home.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is accused of an attack on Merino's home.
The human rights promotion and protection secretariat of the FMLN strongly condemns the massacre of five Spanish-born Jesuit priests, and three Salvadoran citizens, carried out by the Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers.
The Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers murdered three Salvadoran citizens.
Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, in London today.
Jack Straw is a partner of Celso Amorim.
The watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19.
The International Atomic Energy Agency holds a meeting in Vienna.
Police sources stated that during the bomb attack involving the Shining Path, two people were injured.
Two people were wounded by a bomb.
Although they were born on different planets, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's new son and Superman have something in common - both were named Kal-el.
Nicolas Cage's new son was awarded an Oscar.
Olson, 62, previously worked as a partner at Ernst & Young LLP, as a Minnesota bank president and as a congressional aide, before joining the Fed board in 2001, to serve a term ending in 2010.
Olson is a member of the Fed board.
Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found "extensive" additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.
Valero Energy Corp. is the owner of Port Arthur refinery.
He said that his daughter was told that Clark had been cited to General Sessions Court.
Clark is employed at General Sessions Court.
Although Schneider's father, Marvin, died of complications from diabetes only two weeks after "Deuce Bigalow" was released, his Filipino mother Pilar continues to live in Pacifica.
Pilar is the mother of Schneider.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmadinejad is a TIME magazine journalist.
Hinostroza's children told police that four hooded individuals broke into the house and shot their mother after having insulted her.
Hinostroza's children attaked their mother with a gun.
Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found "extensive" additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.
Valero Energy Corp. caused damages to Port Arthur refinery.
Steve Jobs was attacked by Sculley and other Apple executives for not delivering enough hot new products and resigned from the company a few weeks later.
Steve Jobs worked for Apple.
The memo, written by Marc Allen Connelly (who was general counsel to the funeral services commission at the time) and sent to Dick McNeil (the Bush-appointed chairman of the funeral commission) stated that Connelly "received information" from Texas state officials that two of the funeral commissioners worked for SCI.
Dick McNeil was an employee of Bush.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Soyuz spacecraft were built by Russia.
But according to Dr. Williams, other members of the panel have championed other ideas, for example, that planets should be larger than 2,000 kilometers (or about 1,250 miles) in diameter (Pluto is about 1,500 miles).
The diameter of Pluto measures 1,500 miles.
An Afghan interpreter, employed by the United States, was also wounded.
An interpreter worked for Afghanistan.
The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on the 28th of July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.
Justice Carlos Valencia was killed in Colombia.
Fernandez, of FEMA, was on scene when Martin arrived at a FEMA base camp before going to the hospital.
Fernandez works for FEMA.
As a result, peptic ulcer disease has been transformed from a chronic, frequently disabling condition to one that can be cured by a short regimen of antibiotics and other medicines.
Antibiotics are used against peptic ulcer.
Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.
Boeing is a subsidiary of Airbus SAS.
Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.
Oqueli was a member of the Socialist party.
Earlier this year, 78 local, state and federal agencies took part in a chemical attack drill, called Rotunda Thunda, at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.
A chemical attack took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.
The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.
Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%.
Two persons were injured in dynamite attacks perpetrated this evening against two bank branches in this northwestern, Colombian city.
Two bank branches were attacked with dynamite.
The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.
Johnny Stomponato starred in Fatal Attraction.
Cage is a big fan of "Superman" (who was born on the fictional planet Krypton) and was to play the role in a film planned for the 1990s that never came to be.
Cage played Superman.
Gen. Maza Marquez said that the fact that a payment is being offered for the capture of Pablo Escobar does not mean that other persons accused of being capos of the mafia are not being sought, and that if anyone being held in connection with the investigation of the killing of Luis Carlos Galan is released, that does not mean that the investigations are not proceeding well.
Luis was killed by the capos of the mafia.
Second-half goals, from Danny Mills and Darius Vassell, lifted Manchester City to a 2-0 victory over Everton.
Manchester was beaten by Everton.
The memo, written by Marc Allen Connelly (who was general counsel to the funeral services commission at the time) and sent to Dick McNeil (the Bush-appointed chairman of the funeral commission), stated that Connelly "received information" from Texas state officials that two of the funeral commissioners worked for SCI.
Marc Allen Connelly worked for SCI.
Speaking of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was chased by armed officers into the station and shot five times at close range, his cousin, Alex Pereira, hinted today that his family would sue Scotland Yard over the killing.
Jean Charles de Menezes is related to Alex Pereira.
Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.
J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle.
Nancy Vine, who sells tickets at the Big Sky drive-in, seven nights a week, is a daughter of Donald and Dorothy LeGros - part of the extended family that operates the drive-in.
Nancy Vine is in business with Donald and Dorothy LeGros.
Helena Brighton, an attorney for Eliza May who served as executive director of the Texas Funeral Services Commission -the state agency that regulates the funeral business- claimed that she was fired from her state job because she raised questions about SCI.
Eliza May hired Helena Brighton.
The evidence for the continuing accretion of gas by the Milky Way involves high-velocity clouds, or HVCs--mysterious clumps of hydrogen, moving rapidly through the outer regions of the galaxy.
High-velocity clouds are made up of hydrogen.
Despite the turmoil in Israeli society, there is little doubt that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will pull the nearly 9,000 Israeli settlers out of Gaza, now a closed military zone.
9,000 settlers are employed by Israel.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has made an unannounced visit to Iraq, according to the office of Iraqi transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
Howard is a political representative of Australia.
Earlier this year, Kai-Uwe Ricke, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, floated the possibility that T-Mobile USA might be sold.
Deutsche Telekom sold T-Mobile USA.
Martin was given water to drink, then taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.
Ochsner Foundation Hospital is located in New Orleans.
Nelson Beavers is a co-owner of the current company, Carolina Analytical Laboratories LLC. and has ownership/employment history with Woodson-Tenent and Eurofin.
Nelson Beaver is staff at Carolina Analytical Laboratories.
The Bulls agreed to trade center, Eddy Curry, to the New York Knicks on Monday.
Eddy Curry was acquired by the Bulls.
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Microsoft Corp. is a competitor of Toshiba Corp.
Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, are gathering in Laos to discuss topics ranging from terrorism and economic integration to non-aggression treaties with several regional neighbors.
Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations work for ASEAN.
He also developed a breath test that could detect sulfur compounds emitted from the H. pylori.
The H. pylori produces sulphur compounds.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.
Antonio Fazio is subordinate to Jean-Claude Trichet.
Kaspars Ruklis, press official at the United States Embassy, told the Baltic News Service that Mrs. Bush chose to visit Latvia's Occupation.
Kaspars Ruklis works for the United States Embassy.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmadinejad is a citizen of Iran.
A.C. Milan is in second place with 13 points, after two first-half goals from captain Paolo Maldini earned them a 2-1 victory over Reggina.
A.C. Milan lost to Reggina.
After the press conference, I met up with a Microsoft guy, John Traynor: senior director of segment marketing for the mobile devices division.
John Traynor is an executive of Microsoft.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Cote d'Ivoire's peace process, said, on Sunday, that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation in order to pave the way for elections later this year.
Thabo Mbeki is a citizen of Cote d'Ivoire.
An investigation has found that Unity Party presidential candidate, Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, United Democratic standard bearer, Charles Brumskine, and Liberian National Union standard bearer, John Morlue, have been in the position of U.S. permanent residency or green card.
Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the leader of Unity party.
Kevin Whitaker, who heads the Cuban affairs office at the Department of State, spoke with Lazo on two occasions about the effort to give his sons visas.
Kevin Whitaker is a manager of the Department of State.
For Bechtolsheim, who designed the prototype for the first Sun workstation while he was a Birkenstock-shod Stanford University graduate student in 1982, the new line of computers, code named Galaxy, is a return to the company's roots.
The Sun workstation was created by Bechtlsheim.
The dual citizenship debate has been a major distraction for the Weah campaign and many of his opponents have been secretly advocating against his presence in the race.
Weah does business with his opponents.
Craig Conway, fired as PeopleSoft's chief executive officer before the company was bought by Oracle, was in England last week.
Craig Conway works for Oracle.
Around 50 million years ago, in contrast, oxygen levels in the atmosphere measured 23 percent--2 percent higher than today.
23% of the atmosphere is made up by oxygen.
The three drive-ins nearest to Madison, all less than an hour's drive, are: Big Sky Twin Drive-In Theatres in Wisconsin Dells, Highway 18 Outdoor Theatre, near Jefferson, and Sky-Vu Drive-In, near Monroe.
Highway 18 Outdoor Theatre is located in Wisconsin Dells.
The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.
Adrian Lyne is the director of "Indecent Proposal".
Kabul - A roadside bomb that injured six U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, was followed by a blast near a Kabul police station, Monday, that hurt two police officers and a civilian.
The six U.S. soldiers were residents in Afghanistan.
Jim Tracy became the latest to be shown the door in Paul DePodesta's restructuring of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Jim Tracy was fired by Paul DePodesta.
Cote d'Ivoire's President, Laurent Gbagbo, promulgated new election laws on July 14.
President Laurent Gbagbo lives in Cote d'Ivoire.
Those accused of the assassination of six Jesuits, if found guilty, will be punished whether they are civilians, military, or influential people.
Six Jesuits were killed by civilians.
The seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La., and the Texas cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, appear to be the ones hardest hit by the water and wind that accompanied Rita.
Rita caused damages to seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La.
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a uniform fabric of radiation that covers the entire universe at a constant temperature of 2.7 kelvins.
The temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background is 2.7 kelvins.
Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were available.
Nicholas Cage is married to Alice Kim Cage.
"The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but they seem to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands," Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village, in the Middle Andaman Island, told Reuters by phone.
Smriti Kana Saha is a resident of Ranjat village.
Hakimi also claimed that the rebels killed Mawlavi Waqifi, a religious leader in the southeastern province of Khost.
Mawlavi Waqifi lived in the southeastern province of Khost.
In that aircraft accident, four people were killed: the pilot, who was wearing civilian clothes, and three other people who were wearing military uniforms.
Four people were assassinated by the pilot.
The Actors Studio offering will be based on Simon's female version of the play which was premiered in 1985 in New York, at the Broadhurst Theatre, with the characters' names being Florence Unger and Olive Madison, played by Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno respectively.
Broadhurst Theatre is located in New York.
Vinicio Cerezo tacitly blamed president Alfredo Cristiani's administration for the crisis which prevails in the country as a result of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's (FMLN) offensive. Meanwhile, Morales Ehrlich blamed the extreme- right, death-squads of El Salvador for the assassination of six Jesuit priests at the Central American University.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is suspected of the assassination of six Jesuit priests.
The solar system is much more complicated now, astronomers say, than in 1930 when Clyde Tombaugh added Pluto to the inventory of wandering lights circling the Sun.
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
The Southeast Asian ministers gather in Laos for their regional meeting.
Southeast Asian ministers' meeting is held in Laos.
Australia was one of the countries in the U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003.
The coalition is coordinated by the U.S
Martin was taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.
Martin works for the Ochsner Foundation Hospital.
"A force majeure is an act of God," said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests.
New Orleans Saints are property of Tom Benson.
The two rescuers who retrieved him are firefighters with a California-based FEMA team: J.D. Madden of Santa Clara and Eric Mijangos of Menlo Park.
A FEMA team is based in California.
The galaxy, measuring just 2,000 light-years across, is a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way, which stretches 100,000 light-years in diameter.
The Milky Way measures 2,000 light-years across.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were "playing out of their socks", but admitted that they were "racing against time" to track down the bombers.
The officers belong to Sir Ian Blair's family.
A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.
Siena was beaten by A.S. Roma.
Helena Brighton, an attorney for Eliza May who served as executive director of the Texas Funeral Services Commission -the state agency that regulates the funeral business- claimed that she was fired from her state job because she raised questions about SCI.
Helena Brighton is a clerk of the Texas Funeral Services Commission.
Warrington-born Chris Evans denies he went wild, despite quitting Radio 1 in 1997 and later being sacked by Virgin Radio for not turning up for work during a five-day drinking binge.
Virgin Radio was the employer of Chris Evans.
Self-sufficiency has been turned into a formal public awareness campaign in San Francisco, by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom is a politician of San Francisco.
SCI, Houston's largest funeral services company, was headed by Robert Waltrip--a close associate of the Bush family.
Robert Waltrip works for the Bush family.
Moscow (USSR), 12 Jul 89 (PRAVDA)- Blood is flowing in Columbia, where last year, according to official statistics, there were 4,600 victims of political violence, including Jaime Pardo Leal (president of Colombia's national coordination committee), around 30 deputies and many municipal advisors and mayors.
Jaime Pardo Leal was killed in Moscow.
San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped yesterday, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.
Gilda Flores was kidnapped on the 13th of January 1990.
The automobile industry, led by General Motors and Ford, offered price discounts from June-August that temporarily boosted sales, but these discounts may have masked underlying weakness.
Ford is part of the automobile industry.
Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.
Manuel Antonio Rugama was killed by Jose Jesus Pena.
Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.
Alan Mulally is the owner of Boeing.
At the time, neither "USA Today" nor "The Observer" was able to verify which of the sixty-plus candidates it was.
"USA Today" is a subsidiary of "The Observer."
He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's "Two Trains Running," now onstage at Pegasus Players.
"Two Trains Running" was written by Wilson.
Lima, Jan. 10, '90 - The national police reported that over 15,000 people have been arrested in Lima in a dragnet aimed at uncovering the assassins of former Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar Trint, who was murdered in a terrorist attack, yesterday.
Enrique Lopez Albujar Trint was killed on Jan. 9 '90.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were "playing out of their socks", but admitted that they were "racing against time" to track down the bombers.
Sir Ian Blair works for the Metroplitan Police.
Mahbob Amiri, head of Afghanistan's quick-reaction force, said Monday's bomb in the capital detonated as a United Nations vehicle drove past.
The United Nations produces vehicles.
U.S. policy on drug trafficking is not consistent with the need to put an end and actively repress the consumption of drugs. The solution is not based on the destruction of a native plant, coca, in the continent, but on an active fight against the Colombian drug mafia, which has created a great money and crime empire in Colombia with powerful ramifications outside its borders.
A native plant is destroyed by the Colombian drug mafia.
The government of El Salvador strongly condemns the terrorist attacks carried out with explosives, today, against the Salvadoran Workers National Union Federation, in which several persons were wounded and others died.
Terrorist attacks were carried out in El Salvador.
He had been hand-picked by John Sculley to take over Steve Jobs' position as head of the Macintosh group.
John Sculley was an executive of the Macintosh group.
Warrington-born Chris Evans denies he went wild, despite quitting Radio 1 in 1997 and later being sacked by Virgin Radio for not turning up for work during a five-day drinking binge.
Chris Evans worked for Radio 1.
With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.
Christopher Hill is a relative of a top US negotiator.
Another presidential candidate, who we thought was the one involved, was Charles Brumskine, the standard bearer of the United Democratic Party who also has residency in the Northern Virginia area.
Charles Brumskine is a member of the United Democratic Party.
Lao government spokesman, Yong Chantalangsy, said Rangoon has promised to announce its decision in Vientiane.
Yong Chantalangsy is a representative of Laos.
The murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week, were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.
Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.
Moscow (USSR), 12 Jul 89 (PRAVDA)- Blood is flowing in Columbia, where last year, according to official statistics, there were 4,600 victims of political violence, including Jaime Pardo Leal (president of Colombia's national coordination committee), around 30 deputies and many municipal advisors and mayors.
Around 30 deputies were killed on 12 Jul 89.
The main library at 101 E. Franklin St. changes its solo and group exhibitions monthly in the Gellman Room, the Second Floor Gallery, the Dooley Foyer and the Dooley Hall.
Dooley Foyer is located in Dooley Hall.
Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook computer maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., said the PC would be introduced in Japan in early 2006.
Toshiba produces notebook computers.
Larry Estrada, whose father served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam, said he has always had a great appreciation for the military and wanted to do his part to help.
Larry Estrada's father belonged to the Marine Corps.
Also, in a landmark deal with Disney, iTunes is now offering current and past episodes from two of the most popular shows on television.
I-tunes does business with Disney.
The experiment helped establish that the bacteria came first, causing inflammation, then ulcers.
Inflammation is the result of ulcers.
San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped yesterday, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.
Guatemala borders on El Salvador.
Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.
An electoral campaign is being held in Nicaragua.
Martin was taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.
Jinny Resor is employed at Ochsner Foundation Hospital.
Mexico City (Mexico), 12 Jan 90 (DPA) -Salvadoran Social Democratic politician Hector Oqueli Colindres was kidnapped today in Guatemala city, along with Guatemalan Social Democratic leader Gilda Flores, his party, in Mexico City, reported.
Hector Oqueli Colindres is a citizen of Mexico.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's [FMLN] urban commandos have denied reports that they participated in an attack on vice president-elect Francisco Merino's home.
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front have attacked Merino's home.
Salvadoran reporter Mauricio Pineda, a sound technician for the local Canal Doce television station, was shot to death today in Morazan Department in the eastern part of the country.
Mauricio Pineda was killed by gunfire.
Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook computer maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., said the PC would be introduced in Japan in early 2006.
Toshiba is a subsidiary of Dell Inc.
Alleged terrorists today, killed Dolores Hinostroza, the mayor of Mulqui district, shooting her five times.
The mayor of Mulqui district was murdered with a firearm.
But Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, says the main issue ahead is higher inflation.
The Economic Forecasting Center is located in Georgia.
"The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but it seems to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands," Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village in the Middle Andaman Island told Reuters by phone.
Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village is part of the Middle Andaman Island.
A mercenary group, faithful to the warmongering policy of former Somozist colonel Enrique Bermudez, attacked an IFA truck belonging to the interior ministry at 0900 on 26 March in El Jicote, wounded and killed an interior ministry worker and wounded five others.
A mercenary group was injured in El Jicote.
ECB spokeswoman, Regina Schueller, declined to comment on a report in Italy's la Repubblica newspaper that the ECB council will discuss Mr. Fazio's role in the takeover fight at its Sept. 15 meeting.
The ECB council meets on Sept. 15.
The 500,000 eligible, Muslim voters are likely to reward Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) in the September 18 parliamentary election, for its anti-Iraq war position and pro-Muslim policies.
The parliamentary election takes place on September 18.
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Toshiba Corp. is a partner of Sony Corp.
Councilman Pierce said he was advised that the car belonged to James Clark, 68, an acquaintance of the Jones family.
Councilman Pierce owns a car.
The marriage is planned to take place in the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, whose father superior, Bishop Pavel, is Yulia Timoshenko's spiritual father.
Yulia Timoshenko is the daughter of Bishop Pavel.
"No, we don't get any business from beach traffic," said Butler, whose Men's Shop is located in a small strip mall behind Krispy Kreme on Palmetto.
Men's Shop is owned by Butler.
The 54-year-old man from London, who was not otherwise identified, was located following cooperation with British authorities, police said in a statement.
The 54-year-old man resides in London.
Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.
Jose Jesus Pena is accused of the assassination of Manuel Antonio Rugama.
The loss offered a minor moral victory for Liverpool, as they scored only the second goal this season against Chelsea in league play.
Liverpool beat Chelsea.
The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
Dutch bank ABN AMRO bids for Bank Antonveneta.
La Paz, 30 May 89 - La Paz Department Police authorities have disclosed that investigations into the murder of two young U.S. citizens are being conducted by a specialized group summoned specially to clarify this crime.
Two young U.S. citizens were killed on 30 May 89.
Toshiba, with NEC Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., has been promoting a technology called HD DVD while Sony, along with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (maker of Panasonic brand products), has been pushing for Blu-ray.
Panasonic brand products are produced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Les Paul, who continues to perform weekly at New York Iridium Jazz Club, has finished recording "Les Paul & Friends."
Iridium Jazz Club is located in New York.
Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said the actor's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.
Kal-el Coppola Cage is the son of Nicholas Cage.
San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped on the 12th of January, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.
A kidnapping took place in San Salvador.
Three plays later, quarterback James Pinkney was sacked by Wake's Goryal Scales on third-and-one, forcing the team to punt.
James Pinkney was an employee of Goryal Scales.
Mr. Olsen paid $20 million for the space trip, but says that in the future space travel will likely become as routine as air travel is today.
Air travel costs $20 million.
Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.
Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church.
Kasyanov was sacked by Putin in February 2004, after he had become critical of the Kremlin's politically motivated legal attack on the Yukos oil giant and its owner, billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The Kremlin is owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
FMLN militias sabotaged power lines along the road linking Nueva Concepcion to the northern trunk highway at 1800 on 12 August.
Power lines were attacked by FMLN.
Their work has stimulated research into microbes as possible reasons for other chronic inflammatory conditions, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis, the Nobel assembly said.
Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by microbes.
A member of the Burmese delegation, Thaung Tun, told reporters on the eve of the meeting that his government did not wish to place ASEAN in a difficult position by insisting on assuming the chairmanship.
Thaung Tun is a representative of Burma.
The San Diego Padres ace, Jake Peavy, was hurt in an 8-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
The San Diego Padres won the game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
It takes 560 years to complete one trip around the Sun (versus 250 years for Pluto).
Pluto's trip around the Sun lasts 250 years.
Referring to the April 2 car bomb explosion perpetrated in Santa Tecla, the FMLN-FDR claimed responsibility for the attack in a communique, and said that it was "an action aimed directly at the police" and that "they regret the death of a civilian," but they did not mention compensation for the relatives.
A civilian was killed by a car bomb.
Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.
Oqueli was taking part in the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.
According to an Israeli official, the murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.
Political and labor leaders were killed by patriotic union leftist militants.
Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.
Ahmadinejab threatens Iran nuclear activity.
FMLN guerrilla units ambushed the 1st company of military detachment no. 2 Jr. Battalion at la Pena Canton, Villa Victoria Jurisdiction.
FMLN guerrilla units attacked a commercial company.
The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.
Justice Carlos Valencia was killed in Medellin.
The controversy became more desperate, this summer, when astronomers discovered a new object, larger than Pluto, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of nine billion miles from the Sun.
The Kuiper Belt is nine billion miles from the Sun.
Mufti Latifullah Hakimi, the spokesman for the Taliban rebels, claimed responsibility for the blast, but said that the insurgents had planted the bomb to target the Afghan police.
The Taliban is the rebels' employer.
"I think we've already seen the effect on oil and gas prices," said economist Kathleen Camilli of New York-based Camilli Economics.
Kathleen Camilli works for Camilli Economics.
Prices hit their lowest levels in five weeks Friday, with light, sweet crude for October closing at $63 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest settlement price since Aug. 5.
Crude oil costs $63.
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Microsoft Corp. is a partner of Intel Corp.
The 500,000 eligible, Muslim voters are likely to reward Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) in the September 18 parliamentary election, for its anti-Iraq war position and pro-Muslim policies.
Gerhard Schroeder belongs to the Social Democrats.
Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.
The Army Of National Liberation are supporters of Castro.
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Microsoft Corp. invented the next generation HD DVD format.
US President George W. Bush has refused to set a timetable for the withdrawal of the 138,000 US troops in Iraq, but has said that US forces will stand down as Iraqi forces gradually take over.
138,000 US troops are located in Iraq.
The hullabaloo is over a glacial period dating to about 750 million to 600 million years ago.
A glacial period occurred about 750 million to 600 million years ago.
Others argue that Mr. Sharon should have negotiated the Gaza pullout - both to obtain at least some written promises of better Palestinian behavior, and to provide Mr. Abbas with a prime prize to show his people that diplomacy, not violence, delivered Gaza.
Mr. Abbas is a member of the Palestinian family.
Sunday's explosion outside the Al-Rashi police station in the Al-Mashtel neighbourhood in the southeast of Baghdad, left a huge crater in the street.
Al Rashi is an executive of the police.
Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a maker of high-speed networking systems, which he later sold to Cisco Systems.
Bechtolsheim was the owner of Cisco Systems.
General Miguel Maza Marquez, chief of the Colombian Administrative Department Of Security (DAS), today confirmed foreign participation in the assassination of Luis Carlos Galan, senator and Liberal party presidential candidate, on 18 August in Bogota.
General Miguel Maza Marquez took part in the assassination of Luis Carlos Galan.
According to an Israeli official, the murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.
An Israeli official was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.
Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, in London today.
Celso Amorim resides in London.
Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found "extensive" additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.
Valero Energy Corp. produces 250,000 barrels per day.
"The Extraditables" have claimed responsibility for the murder of two employees of Bogota's daily El Espectador perpetrated today in Medellin, where two other El Espectator people, Miguel Soler Rodriguez and Martha Luz Lopez, were killed today in separate attacks carried out by gunmen.
Miguel Soler Rodriguez and Martha Luz Lopez were killed by two employees of Bogota's daily El Espectador.
Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.
Nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties were attacked by the drug trafficking cartels.
The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for Bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
A local banker bids for Bank Antonveneta.
As a result of these weaknesses, computer systems and the operations that rely on the systems were highly vulnerable to tampering, disruption, and misuse from both internal and external sources.
Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
A juvenile hacker who crippled an airport tower for six hours, damaged atown's phone system, and broke into pharmacy records has been charged in afirst-ever federal prosecution, the U.S. Attorney's office announcedtoday.
Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
There has been a lot of concern over the rise of drug-resistant bacteria.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Professional computer hackers from the secret services were brought into attempt to hack into the Government's internal secure communicationssystem, which was launched today.
Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
At the Amman Summit of Arab Women in Jordan last month, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said womens' advancement in the Arab world will be hobbled as long as they are so poorly represented in parliaments.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Rockweed has been harvested commercially in Nova Scotia since the late 1950's and is currently the most important commercial seaweed in Atlantic Canada.
Marine vegetation is harvested.
The disputed waters lie close to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands, which Indonesia lost to Malaysia in a legal battle in the International Court of Justice in December 2002.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
The cost for some 30 million sheets of paper used each year by Cal State Long Beach colleges and departments went up Wednesday for the first time in four years.
The cost of paper is rising.
Women form half the population and 54% of the voters in the country, yet are very poorly represented in parliament.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
By the time a case of rabies is confirmed, the disease may have taken hold in the area.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
Two weeks ago, China became the first nation to operate a maglev railway commercially, when officials inaugurated a 30-kilometer-long line between downtown Shanghai and the city's airport.
Maglev is commercially used.
A number of marine plants are harvested commercially in Nova Scotia.
Marine vegetation is harvested.
Lastly, the author uses the precedent of marijuana legalization in other countries as evidence that legalization does not solve any social problems, but instead creates them.
Drug legalization has benefits.
A United Nations vehicle was attacked in the Serbian province of Kosovo and at least one civilian policeman was killed, the United Nations said.
A civilian policeman was killed.
Nigeria has been the culprit so far, preventing the world from being completely polio-free.
Polio is under control in the world.
Environmental and social groups criticized the World Bank decision for shying from meaningful reform.
The World Bank is criticized for its policies.
If legalization reduced current narcotics enforcement costs by one-third to one-fourth, it might save $6 - $9 billion per year.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Moscow believes that the waters of the Sea of Azov should remain in common use, but Kiev insists on a clear division.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
All U.S Embassy personnel in non-emergency positions and family members of U.S Embassy personnel who were evacuated as a result of the initial conflict have been authorized to return to Eritrea.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
This paper describes American alcohol use, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and the War on Drugs and explains how legalizing drugs would reduce crime and public health problems.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Ocean colour satellite remote sensing has developed rapidly within the last five years and satellite imagery is now processed automatically and made available via the WWW.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 U.S. citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones near the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Tan Son Nhut Airfield.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Drew Walker, NHS Tayside's public health director, said: "It is important to stress that this is not a confirmed case of rabies."
A case of rabies was confirmed.
The June Movement has always been opposed to giving EU cooperation a military dimension.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
The World Bank has also been criticized for its role in financing projects that have been detrimental to human rights and the natural environment.
The World Bank is criticized for its activities.
In most Pacific countries there are very few women in parliament.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
The release of its report led to calls for a complete ivory trade ban, and at the seventh conference in 1989, the African Elephant was moved to appendix one of the treaty.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
We are committed to the deployment of these technologies and are excited by the advances in remote sensing technology that are enabling us to extract more information from sensors in a cost-efficient and timely manner.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
The M-2000 uses a commercially manufactured NbTi superconductor, similar to that used in the M-2000 Maglev magnets.
Maglev is commercially used.
A pet must have rabies protection confirmed by a blood test.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
Humans have won notable battles in the war against infection - and antibiotics are still powerful weapons - but nature has evolution on its side, and the war against bacterial diseases is by no means over.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Other drugs on the market, approved to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's, are believed to work by inhibiting cholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine which is a chemical used by nerves to communicate with each other.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
US military forces are evacuating U.S. citizens and citizens of 72 other countries from Liberia at the request of the U.S.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Asprin, an inexpensive drug helps protect survivors of heart attack and stroke from subsequent heart attacks and death, and even helps reduce the number of deaths that occur within the first hours following a heart attack.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
A total of 599 United States citizens were evacuated safely, at their request; those who were interviewed expressed great relief at being out of Grenada.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
The presence of oil in the South Atlantic was first proved in 1974, but the distance and isolation of the Falklands deterred oil companies from exploring the area until the 1990s.
Petroleum is explored in the South Atlantic.
The unconfirmed case in Dundee concerns a rabies-like virus known only in bats.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
Legalization would eliminate the harms caused by prohibition, but it would not eliminate the harms caused by drug use.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Capital punishment has a deterrent effect.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Scientists and engineers in the APL Space Department have contributed to ocean remote sensing science and technology for more than a quarter century.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
A report by the AfricanElephant Specialist Group, which is responsible for monitoring the conservation of the elephants,concludes that elephant poaching has increased despite the 1989 international ban on ivory trading
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
US troops evacuated two injured soldiers said Staff Sgt. Duane Brown, a spokesman for the 42nd Infantry Division.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Some 55 percent of the German public are opposed to the euro, less than 150 days before its introduction on January 1, 2002, a poll by research group Wahlen showed.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Only 16 women were elected to the 223-member parliament in 1995, and only 2 women hold ministerial posts.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Often criticized and blamed for politically unpopular policies, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the World Bank is experiencing a difficult time with regard to which strategies to adopt, in particular in Africa.
The World Bank is criticized for its policies.
German Siemens and ThyssenKrupp may sell relevant core technology to China, which owns the first commercially operated maglev line.
Maglev is commercially used.
The introduction of the euro has dismantled barriers to cross-border trading and enhanced risk sharing and opportunities for diversification.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Organic fertilizer slowly enriches and feeds the soil. Fast acting synthetic fertilizers harm soil life.
Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.
The use of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) in single doses should not pose any significant risks to the suckling infant.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
Most commercial logwood is grown in Honduras.
Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.
The participation of women in parliament in Mauritius is expected to increase as more female candidates have contested Monday's election.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Definitely do not lift the ban on ivory, it will drive the species to near extinction again. Elephant numbers should be controlled but what has ivory got to do with it? It is a barbaric trade and should be banned permanently.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
In a sharply-worded internal World Bank report (leaked to The New York Times) the Bank has criticized its own decision to approve a controversial $40 million anti-poverty plan.
The World Bank is criticized for its policies.
Geithner criticized the report's findings on the World Bank, including a commission recommendation that the Bank stop lending to emerging market economies, concentrate its resources on the poorest countries and shift the IFI's concessional assistance from loans to grants.
The World Bank is criticized for activities.
It has been observed that in those countries of the world where capital punishment is still in operation, the crime rate, especially murder, is distinctively low in comparison to countries where capital punishment has been discarded.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
More than 2,000 people lost their lives in the devastating Johnstown Flood.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Only a few Mag-lev trains have been used commercially such as at the Birmingham airport in the UK.
Maglev is commercially used.
For others, in the northern hemisphere, judgment may be a little off due to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is often at its peak in the weeks following the shortest hours of daylight.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.
A new report indicates that women's participation in decision-making in the country is minimal.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Indonesia says the oil blocks are within its borders, as does Malaysia, which has also sent warships to the area, claiming that its waters and airspace have been violated.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
The greatest threat to life and property associated with a hurricane and tropical storm is storm surge.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
Rescuers searched rough seas off the capital yesterday for survivors of a ferry collision that claimed at least 28 lives, as officials blamed crew incompetence for the accident.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
The ivory ban was imposed by CITES in 1989 after a wave of poaching across Africa saw elephant numbers fall from an estimated 1.3 million to a few hundred thousand.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
Aleksandr Yakovenko, an official representative of the Russian ForeignMinistry, has announced that, in connection with the recent terrorist actin Srinagar, about 100 Russian citizens will be evacuated from Pakistan inthe near future.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
When patients interrupt a course of antibiotics, the surviving bacteria return with a vengeance, often having rapidly mutated to resist the therapy.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
While Bush was in the air, the White House was evacuated, with many employees running away from the premises on orders from Secret Service agents.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
The university server containing the information relating to Mason's ID cards was illegally entered by computer hackers.
Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
Humic acids are complex organic molecules formed by the breakdown of organic matter in the soil. They are not considered to be fertilizers, but soil enhancers and improvers.
Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.
A massive polio immunization drive is under way in more than 20 nations of West and Central Africa, but in Cote d'Ivoire violence has forced a postponement of the vaccination campaign, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced November 18.
Polio is under control in the world.
Despite Chinese assertions of control, tensions over the South China Sea's waters have continued to rise.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
The May 3 ferry sinking in the Meghna River that claimed the lives of at least 370 people is a reminder of the dangers inherent in this sort of travel.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
In keeping with our national strategy, the concept of the operation was to further deploy our agent staffing and tactical infrastructure resources along the immediate border area, the Rio Grande River, to prevent and deter the illegal entry and smuggling of aliens into the United States at the border itself.
Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.
For instance, the direct and indirect economic cost of the floods in Mozambique caused by Tropical Storms Elyne and Gloria in February and March 2000, is estimated at US$1 billion, as compared to the country's export earning of only US$300 million in 1999.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
What is certain, however, is that around 120,000 years ago, at least, the modern Homo sapiens first appeared and lived contemporaneously with the Neanderthal for at least 90,000 years, until the Neanderthal disappeared 30,000 years ago.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
The harvest of sea-weeds is not allowed in the Puget Sound because of marine vegetation's vital role in providing habitat to important species.
Marine vegetation is harvested.
The Sea-Viewing wide Field-of-View Sensor, SeaWiFS, has brought to oceanographers a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing data.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
The Townsend Thoresen cross-Channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the 6th of March with the loss of 135 lives.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Hurricane Isabel was a tropical storm when she entered Virginia, but caused damage to 75% of the state, making it one of the costliest disasters in Virginia's history.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
One reason for increased osteoporosis in developed countries is the sodium-potassium imbalance.
Dietary intake of potassium prevents osteoporosis.
The directive for the Border Patrol to stop arresting illegal aliens, as described in a previous post, has been rescinded by Robert C. Bonner, commissioner of the new Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.
As a result, the elephant has been brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks to the ban on international trade in ivory and other elephant products.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
Tropical storm Koni dumped significant rains on the Philippines before becoming a minimal typhoon and eventually making landfall on the northern coast of Vietnam.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage.
Napkins, invitations and plain old paper cost more than they did a month ago.
The cost of paper is rising.
The drive towards this new law was driven in part from a string of transport-related disasters in the late 1980s, such as the sinking of cross-Channel ferry the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987, the oil platform Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, and the Marchioness Thames river boat collision in 1989. More than 400 people lost their lives in these three disasters, but no one individual or organisation was brought to account.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Some plants grow really well in a hydroponic environment, but others do not.
Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.
By 45,000 years ago, humans had weathered the comings and goings of a number of ice ages, had spread themselves throughout most of Africa, Europe and Asia, and had reached a population of roughly a million.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Epiphyte is the name applied to the class of plants which typically do not root in the soil but, rather, attach themselves to trees or other tall objects where they can obtain light and moisture.
Plants are grown in substances other than soil.
About one million years ago, these people began to slowly leave Africa.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Meteorological observations suggest Claudette remained a tropical storm as she affected parts of west Texas.
A tropical storm has caused significant property damage.
The increase in womens' representation in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament has become a symbol for change, backed by the Parliament's principled commitment to creating a more equal society.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
The most recent poll carried out by NOP market research in January revealed that 61% of Britons are opposed to joining the euro.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Albert Sabin developed an oral, attenuated (live) vaccine, which, with Salk's discovery, brought polio under control.
Polio is under control in the world.
His research had been focused on near-shore beds of marine plants commercially harvested in western P.E.I.
Marine vegetation is harvested.
One economic study will not be the basis of Canada's public policy decisions, but Easton's research does conclusively show that there are economic benefits in the legalization of marijuana.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Beth Israel is fighting back in the lab, where bacteria taken from patients are grown in cultures and tested against antibiotics to determine if the bug beats the drug.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
There are actually good grounds to believe that legalization would reduce the costs of respiratory damage from marijuana smoking by encouraging the development of better smoke filtration technology, the substitution of more potent, less smoke-producing varieties of marijuana, and the substitution of oral preparations for smoked marijuana.
Drug legalization has benefits.
The Bakun Hydroelectric Project (BHEP) comprises the construction of a 2,400MW hydroelectric dam, the transmission of its electricity, and the building of related infrastructure including access roads.
A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.
Westbridge manufactures certified organic fertilizers including liquid growth enhancers and biostimulants.
Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.
The ivory ban has been successful. Demand for ivory has dropped and elephant populations expanded dramatically in areas where they were virtually extinct.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
Capital punishment is a catalyst for more crime.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
There is growing evidence that magnesium may be an important factor in the qualitative changes of the bone matrix that determine bone fragility.
Dietary intake of magnesium prevents osteoporosis.
Over 100 more lives were lost at sea, and 1800 were lost in Holland.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Polio is no longer a serious health problem for people living in the developed nations, such as the United States, Germany, or France.
Polio is under control in the world.
And this is a town that everybody agrees, law enforcement, Border Patrol, residents on both sides, is a staging area of illegal drugs and illegal aliens.
Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.
In 1983, McClintock found that bacteria have rings of DNA (plasmids) that reproduce and have genetic changes that tell the bacteria how to defend itself against the antibiotics.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
In reality, legalization would dramatically expand America's drug dependence, significantly increase the social costs of drug abuse, and put countless more innocent lives at risk.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Deceased U.S. soldiers and their effects were evacuated to Japan and then shipped home in refrigerated containers for interment in the U.S.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
The drugs that slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease work best the earlier you administer them.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
The number of Danes opposed to swapping the krone for the euro has increased slightly to 35.3 percent, up from 34.6 percent in April, according to a poll published on Thursday by Danske Bank.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Yes, water is a critical area of dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but given the current climate of peacemaking, and given the general war-weariness among states and populations, such predictions are excitable pieces of subjectivism.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
Vegetables help to preserve your bones, and help fight the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
Fruits and vegetables prevent osteoporosis.
For such patients, regular aspirin use significantly decreased the risk for fatal and nonfatal strokes or heart attacks.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
The development of agriculture by early humans, roughly 10,000 years ago, was also harmful to many natural ecosystems as they were systematically destroyed and replaced with artificial versions.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
The Croatian intent is even more problematic because the border between Slovenian and Croatian territorial waters has not yet been established. The dispute about this border began in 1991 when both countries became independent.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
Public health and animal health officials from the Departments of Health and Community Services and Forest Resources and Agrifoods today confirmed a rabies case involving a red fox in western Newfoundland.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
Yet, we now are discovering that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against illness. Disease-causing bacteria are mutating faster than we can come up with new antibiotics to fight the new variations.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Rather than deterring crime, capital punishment actually increases the level of brutality in society.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Obesity is medically accepted to be a disease in its own right.
Obesity is medically treated.
Initially the Bundesbank opposed the introduction of the euro but was compelled to accept it in light of the political pressure of the capitalist politicians who supported its introduction.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
IBM stole trade secrets to copy two of its programs -- File-AID, a file manager, and Abend-AID, a program that helps users locate the source of glitches.
Trade secrets were stolen.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression, is a debilitating problem that interferes with the quality of life of thousands of patients, especially during the fall, winter and early spring. This syndrome seems to be a worldwide phenomenon and occurs cross culturally, especially in countries far from the equator.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.
FBI agent Denise Stemen said in an affidavit that Lowe's alerted the FBI recently that intruders had broken into its computer at company headquarters in North Carolina, altered its computer programs and illegally intercepted credit card transactions.
Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
Newspapers choke on rising paper costs and falling revenue.
The cost of paper is rising.
The results of numerous epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials provide consistent evidence that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic disease.
Fruits and vegetables prevent osteoporosis.
These acoustic methods are now expected to be useful for the long-range remote sensing of schools of fish as well as for distant ocean bottom characterizations.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have all been criticized for their role in catalyzing the harmful impacts of corporate globalization on people, the environment and sustainable development.
The World Bank is criticized for its activities.
Confidential scriptural materials allegedly stolen from a church were not "trade secrets" as defined by California statute.
Trade secrets were stolen.
Lt. Mark Banks, of Savannah, Ga., tends to a patient who was medically evacuated by U.S. Navy helicopter to a temporary triage site in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Women are poorly trained for politics.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
A wooden steamer of 293 ft sank on 10/13/1902, 13.5 miles North by Northwest of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. The lives of ten of the 19 persons on board were lost in the wreck.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Eleven years after 852 people, mostly Swedes, perished when the ferry Estonia sank on a stormy Baltic night, an exhibition in the National Maritime Museum in Stockholm brings back the pain and controversy which have haunted Sweden since the disaster.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Yet fishermen from both sides say boats lack navigational tools to let them know when they've crossed the frontier, which still is subject to a bilateral dispute dating to the 1965 war between the countries.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during hostilities between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
The total estimated project cost including financing, inflation and interest during construction, is approximately US$1.1 billion.
A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.
Naval units evacuated U.S. civilians and military personnel from the Tachen Islands.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
The result in Denmark shows that people are fundamentally opposed to joining the euro.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
It appears that the super-conducting maglev system is technically ready to be used commercially as a very high-speed, large-capacity transportation system.
Maglev is commercially used.
This case of rabies in western Newfoundland is the first case confirmed on the island since 1989.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
If confirmed as rabies, the case could be the first occurence of the infection acquired in the UK since 1902.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
These problems can be avoided by legalization, under which cannabis could be legally sold, taxed and regulated like alcohol or tobacco.
Drug legalization has benefits.
About 3 million years ago, when Lucy was alive, she was rather short, about 4 feet tall, and probably weighed about 50 pounds.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Sani-Seat can offset the rising cost of paper products
The cost of paper is rising.
Fast forward a decade or two and scientists began to notice antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
If the ruling is that these trade-secrets were stolen goods, I'd be willing to bet that these three guys could refuse to answer any questions, by invoking the 5th Amendment, since they would incriminate themselves by saying anything.
Trade secrets were stolen.
Hydroponics is the growth of plants in a substance other than soil with water.
Plants are grown in substances other than soil.
Since the fear of death is virtually a universal phenomenon, the death penalty is an unparalleled deterrent for people considering a crime.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Security forces gunned down six Maoists; while the rebels killed a policeman and an abducted civilian drowned escaping from the Maoists, say latest insurgency related reports.
A civilian policeman was killed.
Diets that provide recommended levels of magnesium are beneficial for bone health, but further investigation on the role of magnesium in bone metabolism and osteoporosis is needed.
Dietary intake of magnesium prevents osteoporosis.
Both sides of this argument are presented in this paper, but it is the attempt of this paper to emphasize that the legalization of drugs would be destructive to our society.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Women are poorly represented in transactions financed by mortgage bonds.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Though owning no trees and no waters, Takeshima Island has become the subject of a bitter political dispute between Japan and South Korea.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
New security steps taken by the Customs Service may not be enough to stop a terrorist from smuggling in nuclear weapons.
Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.
No case of indigenously acquired rabies infection has been confirmed in man or any animal species during the past 2 years.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
This taught postgraduate masters degree programme will provide specialised training at a postgraduate level in the methods and uses of remote sensing applied to the ocean.
Ocean remote sensing is applied.
Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Environment Minister David Anderson today announced his decision regarding the environmental assessment of the proposed Toulnustouc Hydroelectric Project.
A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.
Some other objections to legalization point to the greater dangers of family violence, reckless driving, or reckless operation of subways and so on.
Drug legalization has benefits.
These early men learned to make fire. They traveled over land bridges from Africa, and began to populate the world, about 1 million years ago.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Alzheimer's disease is successfully treated, and controlled by drugs which inhibit the synthesis of beta-amyloid protein.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
Banning ivory is the surest road to extinction for the African elephant, argue leaders in those countries.
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
The most surprising news story of the past week must be the 'wonderful' story that the AIDS epidemic in India is under control.
Polio is under control in the world.
The drawbacks of legalization do not imply that our current version of prohibition is the optimal drug strategy; it may well be possible to implement prohibition in less harmful ways.
Drug legalization has benefits.
They, too, have not produced a practical, commercially acceptable maglev.
Maglev is commercially used.
Another factor in the rising cost of paper is the increased cost of wood pulp, from which paper is made
The cost of paper is rising.
20 million years ago there were apes, and by 5 million years ago our closest ancestors and cousins, early ape-humans, had split from the other apes.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
INS predicts that the smuggling will continue to increase and that alien smuggling organizations will become more sophisticated, organized, and complex.
Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.
High dietary intake of potassium from fruits and vegetables throughout one's life helps to preserve bone mass, thereby preventing bone loss that can lead to osteoporosis.
Dietary intake of potassium prevents osteoporosis.
Nearly five months later on January 24, 1935, the passenger vessel MOHAWK sank after colliding with the Norwegian motorship TALISMAN, and 45 people lost their lives.
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
World Bank programs have been heavily criticized for many years for resulting in poverty.
The World Bank is criticized for its activities.
The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.
The cost of paper is rising.
The gastric bypass operation, also known as stomach stapling, has become the most common surgical procedure for treating obesity.
Obesity is medically treated.
Primary prevention of Alzheimer's disease is not possible at present.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
The death penalty is not a deterrent.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
The German technology was employed to build Shanghai's existing maglev line, the first in the world to be used commercially.
Maglev is commercially used.
Organic fertilizers like vermi compost are used for increasing the quality, fertility and mineral content of the soil.
Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.
As the U.S. military evacuated Saigon in the Spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford approved Operation Babylift, the plan to transport thousands of Vietnamese children to adoptive parents in the West, hundreds of them at a time, before the U.S. was forced out of the country.
The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Well, the yolk is on us, the bacteria are winning, and at a record pace.
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Actual statistics about the deterrent value of capital punishment are not available because it is impossible to know who may have been deterred from committing a crime.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Capital punishment acts as a deterrent.
Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
On the other hand, the article, "Fiction and Facts About Drug Legalization", by Joseph Califano identifies possible social problems that could occur as a result of marijuana being decriminalized in any form, whether for medical purposes or for recreational use.
Drug legalization has benefits.
Compuware claims that Allan Tortorice and Jim Hildner were among several former employees who revealed trade secrets after they moved to IBM.
Trade secrets were stolen.
After the polio cases were identified, public health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti began giving the vaccines to large numbers of children. Public health officials now say the disease is under control and is not a public health threat.
Polio is under control in the world.
National currencies will be completely replaced by the euro in within six months after the introduction of euro notes and coins.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
The scientific community now generally agrees that between 5 and 8 million years ago, there lived in Africa a hominid which would ultimately give rise to the first hominids and later the members of the genus Homo.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Some of the stolen trade secrets were seized from the defendants at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) while they were attempting to fly to China.
Trade secrets were stolen.
Some people may think that there is no other way to grow plants other than in soil; there is however, another way.
Plants are grown in substances other than soil.
About 50 percent of all British party members are female (in contrast to only about 25 percent in Germany) but only 9.2 percent are represented in parliament.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Tropical Storm Debby is blamed for several deaths across the Caribbean.
A tropical storm has caused loss of life.
However, market players were more inclined towards weakening yen, as the yen plunged to its lowest levels since October 1998, after foreign exchange markets interpreted comments made by visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to mean that Washington is not opposed to a weak Japanese currency.
The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Thanks to a global ban on the ivory trade that was passed in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the African elephant population may be reversing its spiral toward extinction
The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
A recent study found no evidence of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland where the sun does not appear for a long time in the winter.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.
The provincial veterinarian with the Department of Forest Resources and Agrifoods, Dr. Hugh Whitney, confirmed today another case of rabies in Labrador, bringing the total number of confirmed rabies cases to nine in Labrador since November 2000.
A case of rabies was confirmed.
The commission's order on the proposed hydroelectric development shall describe the Energy Facility Siting Council's recommendations on the need for the power.
A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.
A joint venture led by Australia's Global Petroleum Ltd. said, yesterday, it had won the right to explore for oil and gas in the inhospitable waters south and east of the Falkland Islands.
Petroleum will be explored in the South Atlantic.
A recent study offers sound medical proof that ACE inhibitors, like beta-blockers and aspirin, can improve a patient's odds of surviving a heart attack.
People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
This paper discusses marijuana, crack/cocaine, tranquilizers, hallucinogens, amphetamines, heroin, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine to provide a framework for the author's argument that the legalization of drugs can in no way be deemed as ethical or moral.
Drug legalization has benefits.
It is hoped that women, who constitute more than half of the population, will vote for other women and ensure that their issues are represented in parliament.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Though the exact date is debated, dogs are thought to have been domesticated by humans approximately 12,000 years ago.
Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
A few growers place charcoal in the bottom of containers to absorb excess salts and maintain sweet soil, if plants are grown more than a few months.
Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.
Muslim fundamentalists such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the smaller Islamic Jihad are determined to torpedo the peace process.
The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas.
Jader Barbalho, once president of the country's largest political party, was arrested on Saturday in the Amazonian city of Belem, after officials in the neighbouring state of Tocantins issued a warrant against him.
Jader Barbalho is the president of Amazon.
It is also an acronym that stands for Islamic Resistance Movement, a militant Islamist Palestinian organization that opposes the existence of the state of Israel and favors the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine.
The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as the Militant Islamic Palestinian Organization.
In Nigeria, by far the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, over 2.7 million people are infected with HIV.
2.7 percent of the people infected with HIV live in Africa.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he sat in the presidential box of Ford's Theater watching the light comedy, "Our American Cousin."
Lincoln was assassinated in the presidential box of Ford's Theater.
While the total population for Missouri increased by 2.8 percent, the Hispanic population shows a 24.9 percent increase between 2000 and 2004.
Missouri's population is 2.8 million.
He became a boxing referee in 1964 and became most well-known for his decision against Mike Tyson, during the Holyfield fight, when Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.
Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1964.
In 1983 Turkish Cypriots proclaimed a separate state, naming it the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Peace talks have been held sporadically, but Cyprus remains divided.
Cyprus was divided into two parts in 1983.
The first kibbutz was founded at Degania near the Sea of Galilee in 1909 and there are now some 300 kibbutzim in Israel.
The first kibbutz was founded at Degania.
John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, approved this museum as the world's first museum to honor John Lennon.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
Perhaps there is no expansion, at least not due to a big bang which never happened. About 20 years ago, Halton Arp and John Bahcall published a debate in The Redshift Controversy, presenting both sides of the argument.
We estimate that the Big Bang happened 20 years ago.
The international humanitarian aid organization, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), continues to treat victims of violence in all locations where it is present in Darfur.
Doctors Without Borders is an international aid organization.
In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.
Slovenia has 5.5 million inhabitants.
As regards the headquarters building, the Swiss are stipulating that they would transfer it to the WTO for a value of about 51 million swiss franks.
The WTO headquarters are in Switzerland.
A charity today joined forces with Glasgow's new Lord Provost to launch a campaign to help the Russian city's twin. A convoy of aid is being sent to Rostov-on-Don next month by The Caring City Organisation.
Rostov-on-Don is a Russian city whose twin is Glasgow.
The order is worth EUR 58 million and handover of the submarines to the Portuguese navy is scheduled for 2010. The contract also includes an option for the same equipment to be built into a third submarine.
The Portuguese Navy has 58 submarines.
A smaller proportion of Yugoslavia's Italians were settled in Slovenia (at the 1991 national census, some 3000 inhabitants of Slovenia declared themselves as ethnic Italians).
Slovenia has 3,000 inhabitants.
The town is also home to the Dalai Lama and to more than 10,000 Tibetans living in exile.
The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 10,000.
About 10 million people live in the Paris metropolitan area, more than 15 percent of the country's total population. France's second largest city is Marseille (795,600) on the Mediterranean coast.
About 10 million people live in France.
In sub-Saharan Africa about one in every 30 people is infected with HIV.
30% of the people infected with HIV live in Africa.
In support of the Earth Island Institute rebuttal, Greenpeace founder Don White made the following - unfortunately prophetic - public statement on 8/18/93.
Don White is the founder of Greenpeace.
German automaker, Volkswagen AG, launched a special collector's edition of its original Beetle, on Thursday, to mark the end of the line for the most popular car in history.
Volkswagen AG produces the 'Beetle'.
Six people were killed and 10 injured on Tuesday in a gun battle between rival militiamen in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, witnesses and clan elders said.
Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
About 33.5 million people live in this massive conurbation. I would guess that 95% of the 5,000 officially foreign-capital firms in Japan are based in Tokyo.
About 33.5 miilion people live in Tokyo.
Jacques Santer succeeded Jacques Delors as president of the European Commission in 1995, the second Luxembourger to hold this high office.
Jacques Delors succeeded Jacques Santer in the presidency of the European Commission.
The Chicago White Sox are a major league baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.
I have a 1986 Coca-Cola Grand Union 100 Year Statue of Liberty pin set.
The Statue of Liberty was built in 1986.
This document declares the 'irrevocable determination' of Edward VIII to abdicate. By signing this document on December 10th, 1936, he gave up his right to the British throne.
King Edward VIII abdicated on the 10th of December, 1936.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced that Pope John Paul was still in serious condition, but he was not in a coma.
Joaquin Navarro-Valls is the Vatican Spokesman.
Hands Across the Divide was formed in March 2001, and one of its immediate aims was to press for more freedom of contact and communication right away between the two parts of Cyprus, and for early progress towards a solution to 'the Cyprus problem'.
Cyprus was divided into two parts in March 2001.
No player scored more goals in European cup games than Miller: 66 goals in 74 games.
Miller was the best scorer at the World Championship in 1966.
By 1979, the literacy rate in Cuba was higher than 90%, comparable to the rates in the United States and other developed countries.
The literacy rate in Cuba is 90%.
We learn that Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's last mistress, had a tendency to whine and to lie all day in bed, eating chocolate.
Claretta Petacci was Mussolini's last mistress.
Released in 1995, Tyson returned to boxing, winning the World Boxing Council title in 1996. The same year, however, he lost to Evander Holyfield, and in a 1997 rematch bit Holyfield's ear, for which he was temporarily banned from boxing.
In 1996 Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.
Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84, was the first wife of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife's name was Natalya Reshetovskaya.
Today in the city of Sao Paulo (from May 1 to May 30) we have a display on Ayrton Senna.
Ayrton Senna was from Sao Paulo.
When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.
Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.
Meanwhile, the inquiries spearheaded by Milan magistrates Antonio di Pietro and Gherardo Colombo began to focus on Italy's private and public business sectors.
Antonio di Pietro is a magistrate.
The twin buildings are 88 stories each, compared with the Sears Tower's 110 stories.
The Sears Tower has 110 stories.
But when the WTO headquarters issue came up, and Germany made an offer and a pitch to get the WTO to be headquartered in Bonn, the Swiss suddenly realised they were vulnerable and began improving their offers.
The WTO headquarters is in Bonn.
Ask Andy Grove, chairman of Intel, about his toughest business challenge, and a pensive look appears in his piercing blue eyes.
Andy Grove is chairman of Intel.
Renminbi - RMB (commonly used in China), is the basic unit of currency issued by the People's Bank of China.
Renminbi is the currency used in China.
Sabena was the former national airline of Belgium, mainly operating from Brussels National Airport, now replaced by SN Brussels Airlines.
Sabena is a national airline.
El Nino is so named because the effects of the warmer water off Peru are usually noticed near Christmas time.
El Nino is named after Peru.
In 1997, Tyson bit off part of one of Evander Holyfield's ears in their rematch that led to Tyson's disqualification and suspension. In 2002, at a melee at a news conference in New York, Tyson bit champion Lennox Lewis' leg.
Tyson bit off part of one of Evander Holyfield's ears in 2002.
Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space, a staggering 438 days, between 1994 and 1995. He orbited the Earth 7000 times, witnessing 7000 sunrises and 7000 sunsets.
7000 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
The plan was never drawn up on paper, but discussed verbally, particularly between Prime Minister Pibul and the British Minister in Bangkok.
Pibul was the minister in Bangkok.
The answer to the number one question, "how many continents are there?", is seven.
There are seven continents.
Born in 1946, into a family many of whose members belonged to liberal professions, Radwa Ashour studied English Literature at Cairo University. She is now Professor of English Literature at Ain Shams University, a novelist, the wife of Palestinian poet Mourid Al-Barghouti and Umm Tamim.
Rwada Ashour is a Palestinian poet.
Begun in 1989 with generous annual support from Lutheran Brotherhood (now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans), the Nobel Peace Prize Forum's stimulating array of programs has involved more than 21,000 participants and reached a much broader audience through national and regional media coverage.
Lutheran Brotherhood received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
We believe that, with the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, visitors from Taiwan will be encouraged to stay longer in Hong Kong, to experience the magic of our theme park and of our city.
Disneyland is in Hong Kong.
It's Biodiesel, and Bio-Beetle is the first all-BD rental car company.
Biodiesel produces the 'Beetle'.
Mr. McEveety told me he had discussed the quote voiced by Archbishop Dziwisz with the pope's longtime official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, head of the Vatican press office.
Joaquin Navarro-Valls is the pope's official spokesman.
Yemen, too, was reunified in 1990.
Yemen was reunited in 1990.
Last week, LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran stated that the rebels are running out of patience and are prepared to go back to war.
Vilupillai Prabhakaran is a rebel.
Nor is it clear whether any US support to Germany, in favour of Bonn as the WTO headquarters, would necessarily tilt a decision in that direction.
The WTO headquarters is in Bonn.
"The Black Panther", or "The Black Pearl", as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.
The best scorer at the World Championship in 1966 was "The Black Pearl."
NRDC states its mission as follows: The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants, animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
The Natural Resources Defense Council safeguards the Earth.
The Philippines has developed into a natural hub for U.S. contact center support with the use of English as the second national language and primary language of business.
English is the primary language of the Philippines.
The Statue of Liberty is so big it had to be built in 300 sections.
The Statue of Liberty was built in the year 300.
During the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing built a 10-meter version of the Statue of Liberty to symbolize their struggle.
The Statue of Liberty was built in 1989.
Ruth's 1927 single season record of 60 home runs stood unsurpassed until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961.
Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in his lifetime.
Six time prime minister Giulio Andreotti is just one of the many casualties stemming from these investigations and subsequent trials.
Giulio Andreotti is a prime minister.
In early December, Glavkos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, respectively the leaders of the two parts of Cyprus, startled Cypriots by announcing that they would meet for the first time in four years.
Cyprus was divided into two parts in December.
The currency used in China is the Renminbi Yuan.
The Renminbi Yuan is the currency used in China.
For one, Israel can comfortably subtract Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants from its demographic nightmare, maintaining, for a while longer perhaps, the Jewish majority.
Israel has 1.5m Jewish inhabitants.
While preliminary work goes on at the Geneva headquarters of the WTO, with members providing input, key decisions are taken at the ministerial meetings.
The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
To mark the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's death tomorrow (December 8), his widow, Yoko Ono, has erected billboards supporting gun control in three major U.S. cities.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
Despite Bjork making her first live performance in two years, the crowd of 10,000 people was only half of what the hall in the Tokyo suburb of Makuhari could hold.
10,000 people live in Tokyo.
The abode of the Greek gods was on the summit of Mount Olympus, in Thessaly.
Mount Olympus is in Thessaly.
Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, was founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Art.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was opened in 1939.
Access to the underground workings at the La Camorra mine is via a ramp from the surface, excavated at a -15% grade and connecting numerous levels.
La Camorra is a mine.
On April 28 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged in a spectacle that was photographed repeatedly.
Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948.
Mohandas received the Nobel Prize in 1989.
In Greek mythology Mount Olympus was the home of the gods and the site of the throne of Zeus, the chief deity.
Mount Olympus is in Greece.
Mount Olympus towers up from the center of the earth.
Mount Olympus is in the center of the earth.
John Paul II was the first non-Italian Pope in exactly 600 years, so other things being equal, his successor would presumably be Italian.
John Paul II is Italian.
The Dalai Lama has offered to send 50 trained teachers from the exile community to help the educational development of Tibet.
The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1950.
In June 1971 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev occupied Salyut for 23 days, setting a new record for the longest human spaceflight.
23 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
Pibul was anti-communist as well as nationalistic.
Pibul was nationalistic.
The European-born groups with the highest labor force participation rates were from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The European country with the highest birth rate is Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Sears Tower in Chicago, finished in 1974, has 110 stories and is 1,450 feet tall.
The Sears Tower has 110 stories.
According to the 2002 census Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.
Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.
In that decade, Missouri's Hispanic population grew to 118,000 from about 60,000, he said.
Missouri's population is 118,000.
The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and Museum opened the nation's first major John Lennon retrospective Thursday (October 19) with a gala party attended by his widow, Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
There is a growing sense of urgency to deal with the country's social issues, and a large number of professional NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability.
BOVESPA is an NGO.
The treaty requires that members comply with guidelines on deficits, public debt and other fiscal benchmarks by the end of 1997 if they are to qualify for taking part in the introduction of a new, single European currency in 1999.
The European single currency was introduced in 1999.
Black Tigers are selected for their discipline and their loyalty to Vilupillai Prabhakaran, 41, the elusive leader of the LTTE.
Vilupillai Prabhakaran is the elusive leader of the LTTE.
That natural increase accounted for 56 percent of Missouri population growth during the past four years.
Missouri's population is 56.
Nine months later, John Glenn becomes the first American man to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn was the first man in orbit.
Mossad is one of the world's most well-known intelligence agencies, and is often viewed in the same regard as the CIA and MI6.
Mossad is an intelligence agency.
About two weeks before the trial started, I was in Shapiro's office in Century City.
Shapiro works in Century City.
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.
The Beetle has achieved an unbelievable cult status across the world, not least because its creation marked the launch of what has since become the largest car company in Europe.
Europe produces the 'Beetle'.
If no settlement is reached, a divided Cyprus will join the European Union on May 1, 2004.
Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1, 2004.
The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called "Strawberry Fields," which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
In February 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army landed an army of 20 thousand men in Dili (the capital of East Timor) and occupied the then Portuguese colony.
East Timor was a colony of Dili before it was occupied by Indonesia in 1975.
The two young leaders of the coup, Pibul Songgram and Pridi Phanomyang, both educated in Europe and influenced by Western ideas, came to dominate Thai politics in the ensuing years.
Pibul was a young leader.
In 2000 there were 10,578 divorces in Bulgaria, which represents 301 divorces per 1000 marriages or a 1.3% divorce rate per 1000 inhabitants.
In 2000 there were 301 divorces in Bulgaria.
Egon Eiermann (born September 29, 1904, Neuendorf; died July 20, 1970, Baden-Baden) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century.
Egon Eiermann died on September 29, 1904.
Philadelphia is considered the birthplace of the United States of America, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written and signed in the city's Independence Hall.
The US Declaration of Independence is located in Philadelphia.
A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.
A female rabbit is called a buck.
Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
There are 32 pandas in the wild in China.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is the Under Secretary General at the United Nations Offices at Nairobi and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Between 1978 and 1982, 32 states acknowledged the medical benefits and attempted to make cannabis available, but possession remains a federal offence. Among the states where marijuana is legally used for medical purposes are California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada.
In the Netherlands, people can legally have 32 grams of cannabis in their possession.
Edward VIII shocked the world in 1936 when he gave up his throne to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson.
King Edward VIII abdictated in 1936.
Paul Watson, the founder of Greenpeace, will speak on campus Wednesday, March 3.
Paul Watson is the founder of Greenpeace.
In the last few days of the war, Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, tried to escape to Switzerland.
Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci.
Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the government-controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-Cypriot northern one-third.
Cyprus was divided in 1974.
Durham is the 'City of Medicine' and home of Duke University and North Carolina Central.
Duke University is in Durham.
The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.
People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.
By law, Mexico can only export half the oil it produces to the United States.
Mexico produces more oil than any other country.
Tyson, who served three years in jail for rape in the 1990s and who bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight, still thinks he can be heavyweight champion again.
Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1990.
When the last member of the Hasmonean Dynasty died in 37 B.C., Rome made Herod king of Judah. With Roman backing, Herod (37-34 B.C.) ruled on both sides of the Jordan River. After his death the Jewish kingdom was divided among his heirs and gradually absorbed into the Roman Empire.
The Hasmonean Dynasty rules Jordan.
The sunset, touching distant hills with ribbons of fire across the waters of the Dead Sea, brings a sense of unreality to culminate a day's visit to the lowest point on earth, some 400 meters below sea level.
The lowest point on earth is at the Dead Sea.
Most of the life of Petko Kiryakov was not unveiled by historians but by the prominent Bulgarian writer Nikolai Haitov, who wrote a novel and a script which was turned into a TV series, which became a favourite of most Bulgarians.
Nikolai Haitov is a historian.
Democrat Culbert L. Olson, elected governor of California in 1938, was a loyal supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal.
Democrat Culbert L. Olson was elected governor of California.
A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.
A female rabbit is called a doe.
With its headquarters in Madrid, Spain, WTO is an inter-governmental body entrusted by the United Nations to promote and develop tourism.
The WTO headquarters is located in Madrid, Spain.
Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
There are 1,100 pandas in the wild, in China.
Jerusalem was rebuilt and served as Israel's capital off and on under various foreign rulers until 70 AD, when Roman legions burned the city and expelled its Jewish inhabitants.
Israel has 70 Jewish inhabitants.
For many years, Sudam was controlled by Jader Barbalho, who was the governor of the state of Para and its senator.
Jader Barbalho is the governor of Sudam.
By 2010 the following countries have the potential to produce more oil than they have ever produced before: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Bolivia.
Kuwait produces more oil than any other country.
Cyprus, divided or not, joins the EU on the 1st of May.
Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1.
The lion's share of this traffic comes from Angola, where diamonds from the area controlled by UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels are subject to an embargo.
Angola was subject to an embargo on the export of diamonds.
Like the corporate logos, the ear is a representation, in mouth-watering chocolate, a delicious reminder of the infamous boxing incident in 1997, when an enraged Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.
Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1997.
IKEA offers fantastic and affordable solutions for your home furnishing needs.
Ikea is a home.
Saudi Arabia's production mix will shift to a higher proportion of lighter crudes. Unlike last year's Qatif and Abu Safah developments, nearly all of the proposed projects produce Arab Light or lighter crudes.
Saudi Arabia produces more oil than any other country.
In a move reminiscent for some of another actor, Ronald Reagan, who was twice elected governor of California, Schwarzenegger said he would be putting his movie career on hold so he can devote his time to running for governor.
Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.
Among the fascinating sites in the city are Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and one of America's principal symbols of freedom, The Liberty Bell, located in Congress Hall.
The US Declaration of Independence is located in Independence Hall.
The common binding of Catholic faith did little to prevent the Bavarians from slaughtering fellow believers in the 19th century under Prussian Protestant officers.
19 Bavarians are Catholic.
Pollner, they say, began trading with Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continued after a U.N. embargo. For his part, Chalmers had loaned money to Iraq since the 1980s and received repayment in oil, according to industry experts.
Persia bought oil from Iraq during the embargo.
In all, Zerich bought $422 million worth of oil from Iraq, according to the Volcker committee. In the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, Rich quickly became the most powerful trader there.
Zerich bought oil from Iraq during the embargo.
Today about 75% of people live in cities or towns. Art and culture are an important part of France.
75 people live in France.
Although the birth rate is the highest it has been for five years, there were still more deaths in Scotland than births last year.
Scotland is the European country with the highest birth rate.
Brought under Ottoman rule in the 16th century, Jordan has been led only since the 1920s by Hashemite rulers, a family whose roots are in present-day Saudi Arabia.
The Hashemite dynasty rules Jordan.
Pibul Songgram was the pro-Japanese military dictator of Thailand during World War 2.
Pibul was the dictator of Thailand.
In a move reminiscent for some of another actor, Ronald Reagan, who was twice elected governor of California, Schwarzenegger said he would be putting his movie career on hold so he can devote his time to running for governor.
Ronald Regan was elected governor of California.
Tom Cruise is married to actress Nicole Kidman and the couple has 2 adopted children.
Tom Cruise is married to Nicole Kidman.
Anastasia, in the village of Nagutskoye, had a neighbor who gave birth in 1914 to Yuri Andropov: KGB chief and persecutor of Anastasia's nephew, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife's name is Anastasia.
The headquarters of the WTO are in Geneva, but the disputes which come under its purview are settled in Paris, under ICC rules.
The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
On June 28, 1997, in what would become known as the bite fight, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, purportedly in retaliation for Holyfield headbutting him.
Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear on June 28, 1997.
In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.
Slovenia has 2 million inhabitants.
For a western European country, the birth rate in Finland is high.
Finland is the European country with the highest birth rate.
It uses the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year as the start of the Chinese New Year.
The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year.
The Chicago Bulls are a National Basketball Association team based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.
The credit card mobile phones now provided on some aircraft, do not interfere with aircraft systems because they are wired to a special "base station" that has been designed to safely receive and transmit radio signals in the aircraft.
Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems.
Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the Olympic Range, rises to a height of 7,965 feet (2,428 meters) and is less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Mount Olympus is near the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.
UV-B light is damaging the ozone layer.
Dr. Pridi was forced into exile, and Field Marshal Pibul again assumed power.
Pibul was a field marshal.
The book contains short stories by the famous Bulgarian writer, Nikolai Haitov.
Nikolai Haitov is a writer.
Named the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in honor of its founder, the building opened in 1959, drawing huge crowds and stirring considerable controversy.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was opened in 1959.
Edward VIII became King in January of 1936 and abdicated in December.
King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936.
In Africa today, the majority of infected people acquire HIV by the time they are in their 20s or 30s and, on average, die within ten years.
20-30 percent of people infected with HIV live in Africa.
India, an enchanting country situated in the southern central peninsula of the Asian continent, covers over 3.28 million square kilometers.
India is on the Asian continent.
Rana told a delegation of the Nepal Trans-Himanlyan Trade Association, the only non-governmental organization which has trade relations with China, who informed the minister of the problems existing in the bilateral trade sector.
Rana is the Trade Minister in China.
Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the Olympic Range, rises to a height of 7,965 feet (2,428 meters) and is less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Mount Olympus is in the Olympic Range.
Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.
Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow.
IBM is now at the top of my list of where I want to work. Ivy alone had nine interviews when the team visited the company's headquarters in Armonk last week.
IBM's has its headquarters in Armonk.
And, despite its own suggestions to the contrary, Oracle will sell PeopleSoft and JD Edwards financial software through reseller channels to new customers.
Oracle sells financial software.
Among the fascinating sites in the city are Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and one of America's principal symbols of freedom, The Liberty Bell, located in Congress Hall.
The US Declaration of Independence is located in America.
Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers from the first Gulf War are still suffering from severe symptoms that have been linked to what is now known as Gulf War illness, say veterans advocates.
Many US soldiers developed Gulf War illness after the Gulf War.
The Antarctic ozone 'hole' is defined as a thinning of the ozone layer, over the continent, to levels significantly below pre-1979 levels.
The ozone hole is above Antarctica.
On April 27th, Pavolini went on, ahead of his troops, and reached Mussolini. Accompanying him were Angela Curti, the former mistress of Mussolini.
Angela Curti was Mussolini's mistress.
The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana, with 270,000 inhabitants.
Slovenia has 270,000 inhabitants.
The PMDB is also the party led by Senator Jader Barbalho, the recently elected Senate President heaped with serious corruption charges.
Jader Barbalho is the Senate President.
Two young soldiers have killed themselves after falling ill with suspected Gulf War Syndrome, following the latest conflict in Iraq.
Many US soldiers developed Gulf War Syndrome after the Gulf War.
Babe Ruth's career total would have been 1 higher had that rule not been in effect in the early part of his career. The all-time career record for home runs in Major League Baseball is 755, held by Hank Aaron since 1974.
Babe Ruth hit 755 home runs in his lifetime.
O'Connor then fought on the side of the Republicans in the 1921-22 Civil War, with those who favored rejection of the treaty which brought peace between Ireland and Britain, but at the cost of a divided island.
Ireland has been divided since 1921.
Maine knows he killed Lennon and that he is also a child molester. During the '92 election George Bush admitted twice on TV "Nobody likes who shot John... I know the media is fascinated with this story but..."
John Lennon was killed in 1992.
John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has topped the US dance chart at the age of 71 with a song supporting gay marriage.
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
On July 8th, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling the use of the shell: an external protocol handler.
A shell is an external protocol handler.
The longest stay in space was 438 days by Valeri Polyakov.
The record for the longest stay in space, by a human, is 438 days.
The Statue of Liberty was reopened to the public on July 5 after its extensive refurbishing. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
The Statute of Liberty was built in 1986.
Joe Friday wore badge No. 714-in honor of the number of home runs Ruth hit in his career.
Ruth hit 714 home runs in his lifetime.
Canadian traffickers also are reported to drop their marijuana loads across the border in remote areas (often without the knowledge of rural landowners), cross into the United States without drugs, later retrieve the marijuana, and continue on to U.S. distribution sites.
Most of the marijuana entering the United States comes from Canada.
The number of Gulf War veterans who suffer from Gulf War illness is difficult to grasp. Robinson and other advocates say they believe that many of the 330,000 Gulf War veterans who have sought medical treatment from the VA since the war, and 179,000 who are collecting some level of disability benefits, are suffering from one or more of the symptoms.
Many US soldiers developed Gulf War illness after the Gulf War.
The interest of the automotive industry increases and the first amplifier project, a four-channel output module for the German car manufacturer, Porsche, is finished.
Porsche is a German car manufacturer.
Immediately after 1990, however, Swedish fertility plummeted in another unique movement, and had fallen to 1.5 children per woman in 1998 and in 1999. This is the lowest birth rate in Sweden ever-although above the European average.
Sweden is the European country with the highest birth rate.
As with the Babylonian New Year, the Chinese New Year, which occurred on the 1st of February in 2003, the day before Groundhog Day, is correlated to the beginning of spring.
The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the 1st of February in 2003.
Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.
Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines.
Mercedes-Benz is another German luxury-car manufacturer, but its M-Class sport-utility vehicle is assembled in Alabama and the new G-Class is from Austria.
Mercedes-Benz is a German car manufacturer.
OTN profiles the Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), which is a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group.
The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as OTN.
The longest mission to Salyut 7 was also a record-breaker, lasting 237 days (nearly eight months) in space.
237 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
The first kibbutz, Deganya, near the Sea of Galilee, was founded in 1910.
The first kibbutz was founded near the Sea of Galilee.
Her husband, political novice Juan Carlos Lecompte, scrambles to preserve Betancourt's dream and sustain the Oxygen Green Party, the political party she founded.
Juan Carlos Lecompte is the founder of the Green Oxygen Party.
Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the star cast, including Scottie Pippen, took the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships.
The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago.
Another French daily newspaper talks about PixVillage.
PixVillage is a French newspaper.
Edwin Hubble is recongized as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era.
Edwin Hubble was an astronomer.
Mr. Balasingham will return to his London home and then move on to Sri Lanka in early October to consult with LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran, diplomats said.
Vilupillai Prabhakaran is a diplomat.
These days are special for St Petersburg - on January 18, 1943 the siege of Leningrad was broken.
The siege of Leningrad was broken on January 18, 1943.
Cannabis is freely available in the Netherlands for sale in "coffee shops" in small quantities. The cost of five grammes, the maximum amount that can be legally purchased, is about £.50 ($19), enough to make about a dozen cigarettes.
In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession.
Nonetheless, a literacy rate of 96 percent put Cuba on a par with such highly developed countries as Japan, France, the Soviet Union, Switzerland and Italy, Campo said.
The literacy rate in Cuba is 96%.
Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.
New substances are damaging the ozone layer.
Ruth bounced back from his 1925 ailments and problems to lead the American League in home runs with 47, 28 home runs more than anyone else.
Ruth hit 47 runs in his lifetime.
The scandal is one of several threatening to undermine President Cardoso's four-party government alliance, and could force out one of Brazil's top politicians - the newly appointed President of the Senate, Jader Barbalho.
Jador Barbalho is a politician.
The two sectors of the divided island of Cyprus held a referendum on reunification on Saturday, April 24, 2004.
Cyprus was divided on April 24, 2004.
The airline now flew under the name Sabena - Belgian World Airlines.
Sabena is an airline.
Civic Alliance, the umbrella group of civic groups involved in rebuilding, hosted a large, public, town-hall meeting for 5,000 people, called "Listening to the City" in July 2002.
The Civic Alliance is an umbrella group.
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.
Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the presidential elections.
Chip giant, Intel, has set its sights on the digital living room with its own flavours of entertainment PCs designed to act like media hubs for the home.
Intel is vying for a key spot in the digital living room.
The Israeli army forces carried out, on Saturday, a widespread military operation into the West Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp, local Palestinian sources said.
The Israeli army carried out a widespread operation in Jenin.
The jet was carrying 152 tourists from Martinique, returning home after a week in Panama, officials said.
The plane was returning to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, from Panama.
Analysts expected the company to earn $1.42 a share on revenue of $3.82 billion, according to a Thomson Financial survey.
Analysts had expected revenue of $3.8 billion, according to Reuters estimates.
Thousands of people are expected to return to New Orleans this week, as areas of the city are opened up to residents.
Over the coming days, thousands of people are expected to make the decision to return to New Orleans.
Goosen shot a 69 on Saturday, one of only two sub-par rounds on the day, to grab a three-shot lead through 54 holes at Pinehurst No. 2.
Goosen shot a 69 and has a three-shot lead.
Also Friday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a bombing, targeting their convoy near Beiji, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
Three Iraqi soldiers also died Saturday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen near Adhaim.
Israeli troops evicted hundreds of screaming and weeping Jewish settlers from their homes, schools and synagogues in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, carrying out a chaotic and harrowing operation to end 38 years of occupation.
Israeli troops carried settlers out of homes, synagogues and even nursery schools.
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
The United States has asked member states of the International Energy Agency to provide oil.
Nine soldiers and two police officers were killed in the ensuing gun battle, and two police officers were wounded, the officials said.
Six policemen and two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle, officials said.
Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors, while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader, once again, proved favorites in the best actor category.
Patricia Arquette collected best drama actress for psychic crime drama "Medium", while James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal" for a second year.
Rose made his first start since joining the Knicks 10 games ago, replacing Thomas, who has an infected elbow.
Rose joined the Knicks 10 games ago.
Injections of human stem cells seem to directly repair some of the damage caused by spinal cord injury, according to research that helped partially paralyzed mice walk again.
Anderson and colleagues used fetal neural stem cells, a type that are slightly more developed than embryonic stem cells because they're destined to make cells for the central nervous system.
Martha Stewart, 64, is back, after serving five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale.
Martha Stewart was convicted of lying about a stock trade and served five months in prison.
Heavy rain flooded parts of the site, with dozens of tents lost under water, while lightning strikes affected the stages and knocked out power lines.
100 tents had been washed away.
Google and NASA announced a working agreement, Wednesday, that could result in the Internet giant building a complex of up to 1 million square feet on NASA-owned property, adjacent to Moffett Field, near Mountain View.
Google may build a campus on NASA property.
The settlement must be approved by Citigroup's board of directors and the board of Regents of the University of California, the lead plaintiff for investors in the case.
The settlement is pending approval by Citigroup's directors and the board of Regents at the University of California.
Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.
Two former bosses of US manufacturer, Tyco, have been sentenced to up to 25 years in jail for stealing more than $150m (£m) from the company.
NASA estimated, Monday, that it will cost $104 billion to return astronauts to the moon, by 2018, in a new rocket that combines the space shuttle with the capsule of an earlier NASA era.
The new space vehicle design uses shuttle rocket parts and an Apollo-style capsule.
Once on the train (according to what the channel said was a leaked police statement, aired Tuesday night) a police officer pinned de Menezes down when another officer shot him.
The leaked version said Mr. de Menezes was being restrained by an officer when he was shot by armed police.
The high-speed train, scheduled for a trial run on Tuesday, is able to reach a maximum speed of up to 430 kilometers per hour, or 119 meters per second.
The train accelerates to 430 kilometers per hour.
Rehnquist, appointed to the court in 1972 and promoted to chief justice in 1986, was the longest-serving chief justice since 1910 and among the longest-serving jurists in the court's history.
Rehnquist served the second-longest tenure, as chief justice, in US history.
The decision by French President, Jacques Chirac, to invite Robert Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris, in February, has angered those across Europe who want Zimbabwe's president to remain an international pariah.
France invited Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.
Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.
Hashemi Rafsanjani will face Tehran's hard-line mayor in Iran's first runoff presidential election ever, officials said Saturday.
On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.
A bomb exploded outside a mosque.
US Federal Reserve boss, Alan Greenspan, sees increased US trade protectionism and ever-larger budget deficits as the biggest threats to the US economy.
Greenspan also said that bloated trade and budget deficits threaten the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
Moog built his first electronic instrument - a theremin - at the age of 14 and made the MiniMoog, 'the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser', in 1970.
Aged just 14, Moog built his first electronic instrument, a theremin.
Seeking common ground amid sensitive differences on democracy, Bush and Putin agreed Thursday, on new efforts to keep nuclear arms away from terrorists as well as from sovereign nations like Iran and North Korea.
Putin and Bush, on Thursday, agreed that Iran, along with North Korea, must not become a nuclear threat.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.
North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks.
A prosecutor had urged a state judge to sentence Former Tyco International CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, to the maximum 15 to 30 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company.
Ex-Tyco CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, received 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison, Monday, for his part in stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.
The men, who will be able to apply for parole to avoid serving the full 25 years, were immediately taken into custody after the sentencing and whisked out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
Kozlowski and Swartz, who were found guilty of stealing more than $150 million from the company, were each sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.
Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large corporations.
Verizon Communications Inc.'s $6.7 billion takeover of long-distance provider MCI Inc. transformed the telephone industry.
The job gains mean that President Bush can celebrate - albeit by a very fine margin - a net growth in jobs in the US economy in his first term in office.
President Bush's first term in office showed a net gain in payroll jobs.
Food and Drug Administration, which regulates human experiments, says its regulations forbid human cloning without prior agency permission, and it has launched an investigation into whether Clonaid illegally performed any work on U.S. soil.
Food and Drug Administration forbids human cloning without prior permission.
Clonaid said, Sunday, that the cloned baby, allegedly born to an American woman, and her family were going to return to the United States Monday, but where they live and further details were not released.
Clonaid announced that mother and daughter would be returning to the US on Monday.
Energy analysts said oil prices could soar as high as $80 a barrel and drivers in the U.S. could soon be paying $3 a gallon for gasoline, if damage reports from oil companies bear bad news.
Oil prices surged.
He said a new study might include more than just Cox 2 drugs possibly adding such widely used painkillers as Ibuprofen naproxen and diclofenac.
Cox 2 inhibitors are pain relief drugs.
Washington Scientists have identified a hormone that significantly extends the lifespan of mice, a discovery that could mark a crucial step toward developing drugs that boost longevity in people.
Texas researchers have found a naturally occurring hormone that can extend the lifespan of mice by as much as 30%, a discovery that opens a new avenue of research into human longevity.
After the service, Lennon left the cathedral, made his way through a crush of reporters and television cameras and talked briefly with protesters, some of whom say they are victims of abusive priests.
After the service, Lennon attempted to speak to victims and protesters.
She flew to Los Angeles last week, after her 74-year-old mother had a stroke, but is expected to return to Texas in a few days.
She recently left her camp, vowing to come back, to visit her mother who has just had a stroke.
Two Indian diplomats met the Indian prisoner facing death in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, on Tuesday at Kot Lakhpat jail in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
Indian diplomats met an Indian prisoner, on death row, on Tuesday.
Herceptin was already approved to treat the sickest breast cancer patients, and the company said, Monday, it will discuss with federal regulators the possibility of prescribing the drug for more breast cancer patients.
Herceptin can be used to treat breast cancer.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is trying to reassure lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes that the inquiry is still on track.
Police issued John Wadham's statement after lawyers for the de Menezes family met with the complaints commission, demanding more information about the killing.
95% of the Gulf of Mexico's oil output is now out of service following Katrina, together with more than 83% of natural gas production.
Crude oil prices have hit fresh highs as fears grow over the extent of damage, done by Hurricane Katrina, to oil output in the Gulf of Mexico.
The renewed attention to the war came as peace activists, camping near the president's ranch, awaited a performance Sunday evening by peace movement icon Joan Baez.
Folk singer Joan Baez brought her latest anti-war message Sunday to President Bush's adopted hometown, supporting Iraq war protesters camping out near his ranch.
Still, the storm surge was both stronger and earlier than expected, apparently coming through waterways southeast of the city, said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the Army Corps of Engineers' district chief in New Orleans.
Col. Richard Wagenaar said the problems would set back repairs at least three weeks, but June was still the target for having the levees back to pre-Katrina strength.
Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.
Kozlowski was sentenced, Monday, to serve up to 25 years in prison.
Springsteen performed 27 songs Monday night, including most of the 12 new songs from his latest release, "Devils and Dust", which was recorded without the E Street Band.
Springsteen introduced some of the 12 new songs off his latest release, "Devils andDust", which was recorded without the E Street Band.
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Responding to a plea from the International Energy Agency for member countries to release reserves, Canada is prepared to help.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.
North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in order to spend time with her ill husband.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.
On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.
The car bomb at the mosque in Iskandariyah exploded.
Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.
A New York state judge also ordered Kozlowski and former Chief Financial Officer, Mark Swartz, to serve 25 years in prison.
Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.
60 million barrels of oil and gasoline will be available to the marketplace.
The probe looked into the October 2000 shooting-deaths of 13 Arabs, during violent demonstrations in northern Israel that erupted days after the start of a Palestinian uprising.
Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.
Officials said the Finnish suspect was among the dead but did not provide a motive for the attack.
Officials said that the suspect, a Finnish citizen, was among the dead.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government.
Sunni Arabs say they're not ready to re-join the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution.
Brian Brohm, the Louisville quarterback, threw for 368 yards and five touchdowns as the Cardinals beat visiting Oregon State 63-27.
The quarterback threw for 413 yards and three touchdowns, and then ran to the end zone two more times.
Microsoft's (MSFT) own search engine will permanently replace the Yahoo (YHOO) search technology that has been used on Microsoft's MSN website.
Yahoo's technology will still be used.
The new work went an extra step, suggesting that the connections that the stem cells form to help bridge the damaged spinal cord, are key to recovery.
The experiment, reported Monday, isn't the first to show that stem cells offer tantalizing hope for spinal cord injury.
The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.
The U.N. health agency has distanced itself from a top official's prediction that a global influenza pandemic could kill as many as 150 million people.
Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."
Priscilla Presley told fans, "you're helping Elvis make history again."
The comments made by Wells today, regarding the commissioner of baseball, do not in any way reflect the views of the club, Sox said in a statement.
David Wells' comments drew a quick response from the players' union and the commissioner's office.
World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
World leaders have condemned North Korea for pulling out of talks.
The maker of a promising ovarian cancer drug said, Friday, that he stopped enrolling women in a study because several patients developed gastrointestinal holes.
A study of a promising cancer drug was stopped because of a serious side effect.
The President George Bush administration, on Friday, ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil from the government's emergency stockpile in order to halt runaway oil prices triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
The Bush administration will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from U.S. reserves.
Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is the president.
Green Day, who arrived at the venue in the vintage green convertible from their gritty "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" video, won best rock video and video of the year for the clip and two of their leading eight nominations.
Rock was resplendent at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, as the veteran punk group, Green Day, took home seven moonmen.
Long-distance telephone company MCI Inc., on Friday, touted its $6.75 billion deal to be bought by Verizon Communications Inc., but said it would thoroughly analyze a revised $8 billion bid by Qwest Communications International Inc.
MCI made no mention of its planned $6.7 billion agreement to be acquired by Verizon Communications in its release, Friday.
Over 400 tents were submerged, after a storm hit the Somerset site on Friday, the festival's opening day.
Many tents were overwhelmed after a storm hit the Somerset site on the festival's first day.
The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry.
I am delighted and wish The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles a happy life.
Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held.
Two British soldiers' imprisonment prompted UK troops to storm a police station.
A Colombian airliner has crashed in a remote area of Venezuela killing all 160 people on board.
A Colombian plane crashed in a remote region of Venezuela.
Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.
Washington is pressing Iraq's leaders to end weeks of political deadlock and to form a new government as soon as possible, US officials say.
He determined that there were 1,678 illegal votes cast in the election, but he said Republicans had provided no real proof that illegal votes benefited Gregoire.
Most of the illegal votes cast in the election went to Gregoire.
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Foreign oil reserves will be made available to the U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
That police statement reinforced published reports, that eyewitnesses said de Menezes had jumped over the turnstile at Stockwell subway station and was wearing a padded jacket, despite warm weather.
However, the documents leaked to ITV News suggest that Menezes, an electrician, walked casually into the subway station and was wearing a light denim jacket.
Rehnquist served longer as chief justice than anyone in a century, and his 33-year career as a justice was among the half-dozen longest in the court's history.
Rehnquist served the second-longest tenure, as chief justice, in US history.
The focus on the engines and the fuel, stems from the pilot's radio call, shortly before the crash.
The pilot had been attempting an emergency landing, after both engines failed.
Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held.
Two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.
Basra's governor said he would not cooperate with British troops until there was an apology for a raid to free two UK soldiers.
The governor of Basra will not work with British troops until there is an apology for a raid to free two UK soldiers.
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
An international oil agency will make 60 million barrels of oil and gasoline available to the marketplace.
The Rolling Stones kicked off their latest tour on Sunday with a concert at Boston's Fenway Park.
The Rolling Stones have begun their latest tour with a concert in Boston.
Miller died Thursday night, of congestive heart failure, at his home in Roxbury, Conn., surrounded by his family, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday.
Miller died Thursday night, of heart failure, surrounded by family members.
The agency identified five of the men as Palestinians, four of whom lived in East Jerusalem and held Jerusalem identity cards allowing them to move about Israel.
They included Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem, who carry identity cards allowing them free movement in Israel.
Also ruled out, for the moment, is any tie-up with a new alliance of Social Democrat dissidents and former communists known as the Left Party, which garnered 8.7%.
It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Bledsoe will be released by the Buffalo Bills, a move that upset the 33-year-old quarterback who started every game for the team the past three seasons.
The Buffalo Bills are releasing Drew Bledsoe, their quarterback.
That request is at odds with the law signed early yesterday, by Bush, directing the federal courts to consider the case de novo without taking into account the state court's findings.
Bush pushed the issue to federal courts.
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health said that the plant was inspected in October, and cited for 15 safety violations, seven of which were considered serious.
The plant was inspected in October and cited for numerous safety violations.
About 30,000 Rolling Stones fans poured into Fenway Park this evening, fortunate to have scored tickets to the kickoff of the band's latest world tour.
The Rolling Stones have begun their latest world tour with a concert in Boston.
The team drawing up Iraq's new constitution considered giving itself more time to write the document on Sunday, but still looked set to meet its mid-August deadline under intense U.S. pressure.
On Sunday, officials argued about whether to seek a delay of the August deadline for completing the document in order to give them more time to hash out such sticky issues.
Amazon shares fell nearly 4 percent following the results as the company said operating income would drop as much as 42 percent in the second quarter.
Shares of Amazon fell 4 percent.
In clashes between Israeli forces and gunmen, one Palestinian was killed and 10 wounded, hospital officials said.
A Palestinian was killed and other people were wounded.
The resignation came amid recent allegations by Massachusetts' attorney general that the Boston archdiocese engaged in "an elaborate scheme" to keep quiet the issue of child sexual abuse by priests.
The state attorney general claimed that the archdiocese engaged in a coverup.
Qwest's revised bid, which did not offer more cash for MCI stock as expected, was deemed disappointing by one major MCI shareholder, and Qwest's shares fell more than 8 percent.
MCI shareholders accepted a $6.7 billion offer over Qwest's initial $8 billion.
A cataclysmic starquake is thought to have caused a flare of radiation that ripped past the Earth on December 27, battering instruments on satellites and lighting up our atmosphere.
The flash of radiation on December 27, lit up the Earth's atmosphere.
The blast observed on Dec. 27 came from a neutron star: a collapsed dead star with a sun-like mass squeezed into a sphere, just 15 miles across, in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer).
The December burst came from a neutron star in the constellation Sagittarius.
The job gains mean that President Bush can celebrate - albeit by a very fine margin - a net growth in jobs in the US economy in his first term in office.
More jobs were created during President Bush's first term.
A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.
Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
As the storm passed, a celebratory mood took over the city until early Sunday morning, when rap mogul, Suge Knight, was targeted by gunfire at a Kanye West party.
The most notable happening occurred early Sunday morning, when rap-label owner, Marion "Suge" Knight, was shot in the leg at a Kanye West party.
The revamped engine indexes more pages than before, can give direct answers to factual questions, and features tools to help people create detailed queries.
The engine can answer specific queries directly.
One day after pledging to undertake one of history's largest reconstruction efforts, President Bush served notice yesterday, that rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast will require spending cuts elsewhere in the federal budget
Amid growing concern among congressional Republicans about the huge cost of the planned reconstruction effort, Bush said the federal government could foot the bill without resorting to a tax increase.
Hours earlier, Yasser Arafat called for an end to attacks against Israeli civilians in the two weeks before Israeli elections.
Arafat condemned suicide bomb attacks inside Israel.
In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until completely blended and frothy.
In a bowl, whisk together the egg, sugar and vanilla until light in color.
While the beet is roasting, make the vinaigrette: In a bowl, whisk together the orange juice, balsamic vinegar, and extra-virgin olive oil.
In a bowl, toss the olive oil with salt and pepper.
Britain said, Friday, that it has barred cleric, Omar Bakri, from returning to the country from Lebanon, where he was released by police after being detained for 24 hours.
Bakri was briefly detained, but was released.
Up to 150 workers were believed to have been inside the factory, which produces syringes and other plastic medical supplies, at the time of the explosion.
Workers were inside the plant at the time of the explosion.
The West Pharmaceutical Services plant, which had been cited for numerous safety violations last fall, made syringe plungers and IV supplies.
The West Pharmaceutical Services plant had been cited for numerous safety violations last autumn.
Scientists had observed that mice with a defective Klotho gene aged prematurely and wondered if an enhanced gene would have an opposite effect.
Scientists have discovered a gene that produces a hormone that raises the life expectancy in mice by 30 percent.
Interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election and will succeed the late Yasser Arafat.
Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the Palestinian presidential elections, and has dedicated his win to Yasser Arafat, who died in November 2004.
British armor crashed into a jail in order to free the two soldiers who were arrested by Iraqi police and militiamen.
UK troops stormed a police station in Iraq.
Thompson, a renegade journalist whose 'gonzo' style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said.
Thompson's 'gonzo' journalism throws objectivity out of the window.
The measures currently in force include a travel ban on senior government figures, but France has invited Mr. Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris next month, angering several countries.
France angered a number of countries, by inviting Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.
The Prince of Wales and Bowles will marry on Friday, April 8, at Windsor Castle, said Clarence House, Charles' residence and office.
The Prince of Wales and Bowles will marry in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Lebanon is in a period of mourning after a massive car bomb killed the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, on Tuesday.
Mr. Hariri was killed in a bomb explosion.
Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors, while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader, once again, proved favorites in the best actor category.
Arquette, who plays a crime-solving psychic in NBC's "Medium", won the best drama series actress award.
The White House pressure, reported by Iraqi officials in Baghdad and an American official in Washington, on Sunday, was a change in the administration's hands-off approach to Iraqi politics.
Washington is pressing Iraq's leaders to end weeks of political deadlock and to form a new government as soon as possible, US officials say.
Clonaid scientist, Brigitte Boisselier, said the first human clone - a girl nicknamed Eve - was born on Thursday to an American mother.
Brigitte Boisselier announced that a cloned baby had been born.
Creeping trade protectionism, and bloated budget deficits, pose a risk to the United States' long-term economic vitality, Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned Friday.
Federal Reserve boss, Alan Greenspan, sees increased US trade protectionism and budget deficits as threats to the US economy.
British actor, Hugh Laurie, had been favourite to win best drama actor for "House", but lost out to "Boston Legal"'s James Spader.
James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal."
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.
Mahmoud Abbas has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.
Moog's synthesiser, which bears his name, revolutionised music from the 1960s onwards, and was used by bands like The Beatles and The Doors.
Moog's instruments were used by The Beatles and The Doors among others.
An audience of 8.3 million people watched rural soap, "Emmerdale", on Thursday, while a live episode of "The Bill" got 7.9 million viewers.
Hour-long special episodes of ITV soaps, "Emmerdale" and "The Bill", were the top-rated UK TV shows on the commercial channel's 50th anniversary.
Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.
Tehran's hard-line mayor will face Rafsanjani in a runoff election.
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October, cited for safety violations, and fined about $10,000.
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October and fined for safety violations.
Pyongyang said there was no point in the talks since the US had termed North Korea an 'outpost of tyranny'.
The US labelled North Korea part of an 'axis of evil'.
The third, and most remote possibility, was considered to be a so-called Jamaican coalition, again based on the party colours, between the Christian Democrats, the FDP and the Greens.
It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died.
Playwright Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Death of a Salesman', has died.
Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.
Bowles will be known as HRH Duchess of Cornwall.
Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city, within a week and a half, despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.
Thousands of people are expected to return to New Orleans this week, as areas of the city are opened up to residents.
A Miami International Airport concourse was evacuated for three hours Wednesday, after a pepper spray can discharged, causing 43 people to suffer respiratory distress.
An Airport concourse was evacuated Wednesday, after people began having trouble breathing.
The focus on the engines and the fuel, stems from the pilot's radio call, shortly before the crash.
The pilot had been attempting an emergency landing, after both engines failed.
A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.
Pope John Paul II died.
Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.
US officials are concerned by the political vacuum and fear that it is feeding sectarian tensions, correspondents say.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government.
Thousands of Shias have marched in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to back the new constitution.
Dr. David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, said a pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on the world's response to bird flu.
The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.
American illusionist, James Randi, offered $1m to anyone able to prove, under observed conditions in a laboratory, that homeopathic remedies can really cure people.
Illusionist James Randi offered a million dollars to anyone able to prove that homeopathy cures.
The 84-year-old pope was wheeled to a hospital window, and blessed the crowd by making the sign of the cross in clear gestures, as a Vatican photographer snapped pictures.
The pope made the sign of the cross.
Nike Inc. said, Monday, that its first-quarter profit grew 32 percent, as the world's largest sneaker and athletic apparel company posted broad gains in sales and orders.
Nike said orders for footwear and apparel for delivery totaled $4.9 billion, including a 12 percent increase in U.S. orders.
The latest file-sharing service trying to go legit in a bid to avoid an expensive and dragged-out court battle is Grokster Ltd., according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
File-sharing service, Grokster, is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx, which is attempting to establish a legal peer-to-peer music company.
Some observers say the partnership between Google and NASA Ames could create a new hub of technological innovation in Silicon Valley, an area gutted by the technology bust.
Google's blockbuster partnership with NASA Ames Research Center is leaving local officials, environmentalists and Silicon Valley landlords feeling left out of the party.
According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy has no such evidence.
Matthias Egger, MD, director of the department of social and preventive medicine (ISPM) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, led the study.
Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.
Ms. Sheehan, whose son was killed last year in an attack in Iraq, left her camp Thursday, for Los Angeles to be with her mother, Shirley Miller, who suffered a stroke.
The Bills will announce the release of 12-year veteran Drew Bledsoe on Wednesday afternoon, leaving J.P. Losman as the No. 1 QB.
The Bills announced that they will release the 33-year-old Bledsoe.
The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.
The soldiers were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols.
Personal computer maker, Gateway Inc., on Monday, lowered its 2005 revenue and earnings forecast, sending its shares plunging 11 percent, as pricing in the industry became increasingly cut-throat.
Gateway lowered its sales and earnings guidance for the year.
Investigators in Venezuela have been combing the grisly wreck of a Colombian plane which crashed on Tuesday, killing all 160 people on board.
A chartered jet, filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday in Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
Experts say that Mr. Abbas will need that big win to show that he has the support of most Palestinian people in order to push through his aims of peace talks with Israel.
Analysts had said that Mr. Abbas needed a large margin of victory in order to push his agenda of peace talks with Israel.
Despite CNOOC's all-cash bid, Unocal said its recommendation to shareholders in favor of the $16.4 billion offer of cash and stock from Chevron remains in effect.
Unocal said it would evaluate the CNOOC offer.
Basque separatist party Batasuna is widely regarded as the political wing of the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a linkage it denies.
Batasuna denies it is the political wing of ETA.
Security forces were on high alert after an election campaign in which more than 1,000 people, including seven election candidates, have been killed.
Security forces were on high alert after a campaign marred by violence.
India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process between the two countries.
India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails.
Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.
Camilla will be a duchess until Charles becomes King, when she will become Princess Consort.
An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.
Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.
McDonald's said overall global sales at its restaurants climbed 6.2% in June, 6.3% in the second quarter and 7.1% for the year to date.
McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant chain, led the advance after the company reported earnings that exceeded estimates.
Four men were released on bail and were ordered to return to a police station Monday, when they may be charged with assault, a police spokesman said.
All four men have been released on bail and are due to return to a police station.
The ball took one last turn and dropped into the cup for birdie, making Retief Goosen more than just the sole survivor of par at Pinehurst No. 2.
Goosen managed a combined 25-over par for the closing round.
Tony Shalhoub won best actor in a comedy for "Monk", and James Spader won best actor in a drama for "Boston Legal."
James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal."
Rumsfeld said the Pentagon's annual assessment of China's military capabilities shows China is spending more than its leaders acknowledge, expanding its missile capabilities and developing advanced military technology.
China was increasing its military spending and buying large amounts of sophisticated weapons.
Radical Jordanian cleric, Abu Qatada, and nine other foreign nationals said to pose a threat to the UK's security, have been detained, pending deportation.
10 foreign nationals were a threat to Britian's national security.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Mahmoud Abbas is a man that Israel can do business with.
Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, may be someone Israel can talk with.
Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city, within a week and a half, despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.
As many as 180,000 people could return within 10 days to a city that held 460,000 before Hurricane Katrina struck.
The Walt Disney Co. donated one of the world's most significant private collections of African artwork, yesterday, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Disney gave the Smithsonian a trove of sought-after African art.
With more than 223,000 refugees already in Texas, Perry said officials at relief centers, around the state, say they are running out of room.
With more than 220,000 refugees in Texas, Perry warned that his state was running out of room.
An explosion, followed by a raging fire, demolished a plastics factory, killing at least three people and injuring at least 37.
A massive blast at a plastics factory killed at least two people.
The New-York based company said, Tuesday, that profits totaled a record $946 million, or 75 cents a share, in the January-March period, up from $794 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier.
Net income grew to $369 million, or 83 cents per share, in the January-March period from $291 million, or 65 cents per share, a year ago.
The settlement must be approved by Citigroup's board of directors and the board of Regents of the University of California, the lead plaintiff for investors in the case.
The University of California's board of Regents still needs to ratify the settlement - as does Citigroup's board of directors.
The ruling Popular Party proposed the ban of Batasuna after the 24-year-old Basque party refused to condemn the terrorist bombing the ETA carried out on Aug. 4 against civilians.
The trigger for this move to ban Batasuna was their failure to condemn an ETA bombing.
The White House pressure, reported by Iraqi officials in Baghdad and an American official in Washington, on Sunday, was a change in the administration's hands-off approach to Iraqi politics.
Washington is pressing Iraq's leaders to end weeks of political deadlock and to form a new government as soon as possible, US officials say.
The flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for crude oil and natural gas that we have experienced over the past two years, said Mr. Greenspan.
Rising prices have helped make many people feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend.
The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats, against 34.3% for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).
It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
China has taken delivery of the first section of a futuristic high-speed train which levitates above the track.
The train literally floats above the track.
A jet filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday, in Venezuela.
A plane carrying vacationers home to the island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in Venezuela.
The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.
Cruise was in Leicester Square when he was squirted with water.
Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.
Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products.
Thousands of Shias have marched in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to back the new constitution and to mourn 1,000 pilgrims who died in a stampede.
Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied in the southern city of Basra to show support for Iraq's new constitution.
Frye says, that he (a homeopathy expert) and Iris Bell recently studied homeopathic treatment of fibromyalgia. A new analysis - comparing published studies of homeopathic drugs to matched, randomly selected studies of medical drugs - suggests that these apparent homeopathic drug effects are merely placebo effects.
What really irks Frye and other doctors of homeopathy, however, is that homeopathic remedies are not supposed to be used like medical drugs.
That request is at odds with the law signed early yesterday, by Bush, directing the federal courts to consider the case de novo without taking into account the state court's findings.
President Bush authorized the federal courts to review the case.
Although most Palestinians crossed into Egypt in order to shop and see relatives, Palestinian officials say that the recent border chaos enabled smugglers to bring drugs and weapons into Gaza.
Egyptian and Palestinian border guards failed repeatedly in efforts to end the chaos and to close the border.
The President George Bush administration, on Friday, ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil from the government's emergency stockpile to halt runaway oil prices triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
European nations were considering releasing oil reserves to help the United States after Hurricane Katrina.
"I will take a brief vacation with some priest friends after Christmas and then I will go on retreat at a monastery," Law, reading from a brief statement, told reporters.
Law said he plans to take a brief vacation after Christmas and later retreat to a monastery.
Three Democrats joined the committee's 10 majority Republicans in a 13-5 vote to advance the conservative judge's nomination to the full Senate. Five Democrats opposed Roberts.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday, approved Judge John Roberts' nomination as the next Supreme Court Chief Justice, virtually assuring his confirmation by the Senate next week.
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
The international community agreed to release stocks from reserves to help avert a fuel crisis threatening the U.S.
In October, however, amid rising tensions between the government and opposition groups, a car bomb seriously injured an opposition politician and killed his driver, in Beirut.
A member of the opposition was injured in a car bomb attack in Beirut.
The outlawed Basque political party in Spain, Batasuna, called, on Monday, parties in the Basque Autonomous Government to boycott the parliament decision to ban it.
Spain's Basque party calls for the boycott of a parliament decision.
Nike Inc. said, Monday, that its first-quarter profit grew 32 percent, as the world's largest sneaker and athletic apparel company posted broad gains in sales and orders.
Nike said that orders for delivery were up 11 percent from a year earlier, and it was optimistic about its growth prospects.
The United Iraqi Alliance, endorsed by Iraq's top Shiite clerics, captured more than two-thirds of the 3.3 million votes counted so far, the election commission said.
The United Iraqi Alliance won more than two-thirds of the 3.3 million votes counted so far, the election commission said.
Lawyer David Gibbs pleaded with the appeals court to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted to give her parents a chance to make a complete argument before a federal court that her rights are being violated.
The appeals court was their last best chance to get that feeding tube reinserted into their daughter.
Then came the dozens of protesters who started camping out near Bush's ranch this month, led by a California mother who lost her son in the war and insists on speaking to the president.
FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has also arrived in Texas, as has Becky Lourey, another mother who has lost her son in Iraq and a state senator in Minnesota
The Rolling Stones kicked off their latest tour on Sunday, with a flashy, high-energy concert at Boston's Fenway Park that made no concession to the band's more than four decades playing pounding rock 'n roll.
The Rolling Stones kicked off their tour in Boston.
A jet, carrying French Caribbean islanders home from a Panama vacation, crashed in rural Venezuela early Tuesday, after the pilot reported trouble with the engines.
A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said.
Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.
Bowles will take the title of Princess Consort.
Seeking common ground amid sensitive differences on democracy, Bush and Putin agreed Thursday, on new efforts to keep nuclear arms away from terrorists as well as sovereign nations like Iran and North Korea.
Bush and Putin agreed that Iran should not have nuclear weapons.
Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned Friday that recent gains in U.S. home prices, stock values and other forms of wealth may be temporary and could easily erode if long-term interest rates rise.
Greenspan also worried in his speech about what will occur with the ending of the recent sustained period of low interest rates and low risks for investors.
Rumsfeld signaled a harder line against China from the Bush administration, which has criticized Beijing over trade and human rights issues but not directly challenged the Chinese military buildup.
Rumsfeld is leveling some harsh criticism at China during his trip.
Witching hour passed and Potter fans poured into bookshops around the world on Saturday, snatching up copies of the latest instalment in the series that promises to be the fastest-selling book in history.
Potter fans rushed to tills in order to purchase the book.
Rising house and stock prices have made many people feel more wealthy and have helped to support consumer spending, a key ingredient of the economy's good health.
A long spell of low interest rates and low risks for investors has especially encouraged investment in homes.
Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji, and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, opened the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) train yesterday, with both sides having much to gain from its success.
Both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Zhu have much to gain if maglev succeeds.
World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
North Korea says it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is building more.