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Sports News Update
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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

O.J. Simpson ordered held without bail AP - 46 minutes ago

LAS VEGAS - An apparent audiotape of O.J. Simpson's standoff with men he accused of stealing his memorabilia begins with the ex-NFL star demanding, "Don't let nobody out this room. ... Think you can steal my (expletive) and sell it?"

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Honoring rescue workers at Ground Zero, three quakes jolt Indonesia and more.

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  • Thai rescue workers work at the scene of the One-Two-Go Airlines plane crash in Phuket ,Thailand, on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. The passenger plane that crashed on Thailand's resort island of Phuket Sunday killed at least 91 people, including 55 foreigners, an airline official said Monday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
    Data recorders found in Thai plane crash AP - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

    PHUKET, Thailand - Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 89 people — mostly foreigners — on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.

  • A Taliban spokesman said Monday that the Islamic militant group would only talk to the US-backed Kabul administration if tens of thousands of Western troops leave Afghanistan. The hardline movement's spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi had said a week ago that the Taliban were ready to respond positively to President Hamid Karzai's, seen here 9 September, renewed offer of negotiations.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
    Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 8 AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on foot entered a government office and blew himself up Monday in the volatile south, killing eight people, including four policemen, officials said.

  • Workers walk out of the United Auto Workers Local 735 hall after getting updates on contract talks with General Motors Corp., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, in Ypsilanti, Mich. Negotiations were to resume Sunday between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers with widespread reports of progress but several tough issues remaining. The union continued to work under the terms of a national contract that expired at midnight Friday.  (AP Photo/Tony Ding)
    GM, UAW negotiate until 3 a.m. AP - 50 minutes ago

    DETROIT - Bargainers for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers took a break early Monday amid optimism that they are getting closer to reaching a critical contract agreement.

  • Cast members of 'The Sopranos' (L-R, front row) Michael Imperioli, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico and Robert Iler celebrate after their show was named Outstanding Drama Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California September 16, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
    `Sopranos' wins Emmy for best drama AP - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Gone but not forgotten by voters, "The Sopranos" claimed its final Emmy as best dramatic series. Winners in other top categories were scattered across the prime time landscape like the bodies of the show's fallen characters across New Jersey.

  • New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates the last touchdown of his team's 38-14 win over the San Diego Chargers in an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
    Patriots rout Chargers 38-14 AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

    Even while they are at the center of a spying storm, the New England Patriots stay calm. The Patriots followed a week of distractions in which their coach and organization was fined and will lose a draft pick or two by routing the San Diego Chargers 38-14 on Sunday night. It never was close.

  • Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (L) is given the oath of office for his second term by U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey (R) on the steps of New York's City Hall, in this January 1, 1998 file photo. U.S. President George W. Bush has settled on Mukasey as his choice to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The Washington Post reported on September 16, 2007. Giuliani's wife Donna Hanover holds the Bible as the Guiliani's children Andrew and Caroline (R) look on. (Jeff Christensen/Files/Reuters)
    Bush to nominate Mukasey as attorney general Reuters - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen retired New York judge Michael Mukasey as his choice for attorney general, a senior U.S. official said.

  • Former football star O.J. Simpson is shown in this police booking photograph released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department September 16, 2007. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, has been arrested in connection with an alleged armed robbery last week in a hotel room in Las Vegas, police said on Sunday. Simpson was taken into custody at the Palms hotel on Sunday morning without incident and faces felony charges, Capt. James Dillon of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters. (Courtesy Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department/Handout/Reuters)
    O.J. Simpson held without bail in Las Vegas robbery Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 12:45 AM ET

    LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week.

  • Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer during his keynote speech at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, May 9, 2007. A European Union court will decide on Monday whether Microsoft abused its near-monopoly position on the world's 1 billion computers and servers to push smaller competitors out of the marketplace. (Lou Dematteis/Handout/Reuters)
    Microsoft suffers stunning EU antitrust defeat Reuters - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

    BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the U.S. software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.

  • Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf speaks to flood victims during a visit to the storm-hit town of Turbat, 550 km (344 miles) west of Karachi, in this July 6, 2007 file photo. Musharraf plans to quit as army chief to become a civilian leader, removing a key objection to his proposed re-election in October, a senior ruling party official said on Monday. (Stringer/Files/Reuters)
    General Musharraf plans to become civilian president Reuters - 57 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to quit as army chief to become a civilian leader, removing a main objection to his proposed re-election in October, a senior ruling party official said on Monday.

  • A U.S. Army guard stands in a corridor of cells in Camp Five, a detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba September 4, 2007. (Joe Skipper/Files/Reuters)
    Waging "war on terrorism" 30 squares at a time Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 11:37 PM ET

    GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Ringed by cells where bearded men pace back and forth behind windowed doors, a U.S. sailor in camouflage fatigues stood by a metal table with a roll of toilet paper, portioning out strips of 30 squares each.

  • Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan (R) and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the Conference on U.S. Capital Market Competitiveness in Washington March 13, 2007. Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was 'essential' to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 2:51 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clarifying a controversial comment in his new memoir, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he told the White House before the Iraq war that removing Saddam Hussein was "essential" to secure world oil supplies, according to an interview published on Monday.

  • Rescue workers attend the scene of a crashed Thai airliner in Phuket in this September 16, 2007 video grab. (Channel 7 Handout/Reuters)
    Thai rescuers retrieve bodies from plane wreck Reuters - 5 minutes ago

    PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai rescue workers dragged the last bodies on Monday from the charred wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed while trying to land in a fierce monsoon storm on the resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people.

  • .S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testifies about the state of the war in Iraq to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 11, 2007. Crocker warned that nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees seeking to enter the United States may have to wait as long as two years because of bureaucratic bottlenecks, The Washington Post reported on Monday. (Molly Riley/Reuters)
    U.S. Iraq envoy blasts pace of refugee process: report Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 2:11 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, warns that nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees seeking to enter the United States may have to wait as long as two years because of bureaucratic bottlenecks, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

  • The Microsoft office in Herndon, Virginia. A top European court has handed Microsoft a surprise defeat in its epic antitrust battles, backing the European Commission's 2004 record fine of 497 million euros (690 million dollars) against the software giant.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
    Microsoft loses landmark EU antitrust case AFP - 23 minutes ago

    LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - A top European court on Monday handed Microsoft a surprise defeat in its epic antitrust battles, backing the European Commission's 2004 record fine of 497 million euros (690 million dollars) against the software giant.

  • Workers and officials inspect the crash site of the MD-82 passenger jet operated by budget carrier One-Two-Go at Phuket airport. Crash investigators sifted through the charred debris of the Thai jet as anguished relatives desperately sought news of loved ones after Thailand's worst air disaster in a decade. Officials said 89 people died in the crash.(AFP)
    Investigators probe Thai air disaster AFP - 32 minutes ago

    PHUKET, Thailand (AFP) - Crash investigators sifted through the charred debris of a Thai jet Monday as anguished relatives desperately sought news of loved ones after Thailand's worst air disaster in a decade.

  • US President George W. Bush (R) and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are seen here in 2006. Bush will announce that he has decided to name retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new attorney general, a senior administration official said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
    Bush to name retired judge Mukasey attorney general AFP - 3 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will announce Monday that he has decided to name retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new attorney general, a senior administration official said.

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei opened a general conference with a call for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. A French warning that the Iran nuclear crisis could lead to war heightened diplomatic tensions and overshadowed a key UN atomic watchdog meeting in Vienna.(AFP/Samuel Kubani)
    Iran 'war' warning overshadows UN nuclear talks AFP - 45 minutes ago

    VIENNA (AFP) - A French warning that the Iran nuclear crisis could lead to war heightened diplomatic tensions and overshadowed a key UN atomic watchdog meeting here Monday.

  • Greek Prime minister Costas Karamanlis and his wife Natasa celebrate after winning in Greece's general elections late 16 September 2007. Karamanlis has claimed a "clear mandate" for his reform agenda even though his conservative New Democracy party saw its majority cut in an election.(AFP/Aris Messinis)
    Greek ruling conservatives see majority cut in election AFP - 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

    ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Monday claimed a "clear mandate" for his reform agenda even after his conservative New Democracy party saw its majority cut in an election.

  • The fall in US house prices triggered by the subprime credit crisis will likely be bigger than expected, former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, seen here March 2007, has warned in an interview published.(AFP/GettyImages/File/Chip Somodevilla)
    Greenspan memoir links Iraq war to US thirst for oil AFP - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, for years an inscrutable seer on the economy, is causing a stir by alleging in his new memoir that "the Iraq war is largely about oil."

  • Customers queue to enter a Northern Rock bank in Chelmsford, Essex. Hundreds of panicky depositors have converged on branches of embattled British bank Northern Rock to grab their savings, as shares in the lender plunged by nearly a third for the second straight trading day.(AFP/Shaun Curry)
    Northern Rock customers grab savings as bank's shares tumble AFP - 12 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Panicky depositors converged on British branches of Northern Rock for a third day Monday to grab savings from the beleagured mortgage lender, the latest victim of a global credit crunch.

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  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks at a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington September 14, 2007. Gates on Sunday rejected former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's statement that the Iraq war 'is largely about oil.' (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
    Gates rejects Greenspan claim war is about oil Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 1:14 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday rejected former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's statement that the Iraq war "is largely about oil."

  • Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies on Capitol Hill, November 3, 2005. Greenspan in a memoir to be released on Monday criticized President George W. Bush and congressional Republicans for abandoning fiscal discipline and for putting politics ahead of sound economics. (Yuri Gripas/Files/Reuters)
    Former Fed chair Greenspan criticizes Bush in book Reuters - Sat Sep 15, 6:23 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in a memoir to be released on Monday criticized President George W. Bush and congressional Republicans for abandoning fiscal discipline and for putting politics ahead of sound economics.

  • A young girl holds a sign as Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and her husband former President Bill Clinton speak to supporters during a Labor Day campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, September 3, 2007. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)
    Civil U.S. presidential race not so good for voters Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 9:28 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama may joke about preparing for debates by riding bumper cars, but the 2008 campaign has been fairly civil so far -- and that's not necessarily good for U.S. voters.

  • A resident walks past the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad September 16, 2007. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)
    Sadr's movement pulls out of Iraq alliance Reuters - Sat Sep 15, 3:23 PM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The political movement loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quit Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance on Saturday, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.

  • O.J. Simpson talks with reporters as he arrives for the funeral of attorney Johnnie Cochran, Jr. at West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles, in this April 6, 2005 file photo. Las Vegas police arrested former football star O.J. Simpson on Sunday in connection with a hotel room break-in, CNN said. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
    O.J. Simpson held without bail in Las Vegas robbery Reuters - Mon Sep 17, 12:45 AM ET

    LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Patriots rout Chargers 38-14

AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

Even while they are at the center of a spying storm, the New England Patriots stay calm. The Patriots followed a week of distractions in which their coach and organization was fined and will lose a draft pick or two by routing the San Diego Chargers 38-14 on Sunday night. It never was close.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Microsoft must share code with rivals

AP - 15 minutes ago

LUXEMBOURG - Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to share communications code with rivals, sell a copy of Windows without Media Player and pay a $613 million fine — the largest ever by EU regulators.

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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 17, 2007
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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