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Cricket: Vaughan hails English spirit after Test win

The England captain Michael Vaughan praised his side's character after they completed an impressive turnaround to seal their first overseas series triumph in three years with a 121-run victory in the final Test against New Zealand in Napier. Vaughan singled out his side's resilience after they recovered from losing the first Test in Hamilton to finally seal a 2-1 series win shortly after lunch on the final day at McLean Park.

Brash burglar nabbed after prison break-in: Malawi police

after he broke into a prison office and stole guns and handcuffs days after completing a six-year jail term for burglary, police said Monday.

After the Bell-Circuit City down, to be replaced in S&P 500

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Shares of Circuit City (CC.N: Quote, Profile, Research)fell 6.2 percent to $4.11 after the bell after Standard & Poor's said HCP Inc (HCP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will replace it in the S&P 500.

Google yanks App Engine demo after blogosphere brouhaha

Just a day after launching a preview version of its new Google App Engine, Google Inc. yesterday yanked one of the development product's demo applications after a blogosphere brouhaha erupted over its origin.

DNA Frees Man After 27 Years

A Dallas, TX man was freed from prison after spending 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. James Lee Woodward was released on April 29 after he was cleared of the 1980 murder of his girlfriend with the help of the Innocence Project.

Brash burglar nabbed after prison break-in: Malawi police

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AFP) - A notorious criminal was nabbed in Malawi after he broke into a prison office and stole guns and handcuffs days after completing a six-year jail term for burglary, police said Monday.

Saudi Arabian Blogger Freed After Four Months

Saudi Arabia's most popular blogger was released after serving four months in prison without charge. Fouad al-Farhan, 33, was detained Dec. 10 after authorities warned him about his online support of an activist group.

Woman back in jail after 32 years on run

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A woman who spent 32 years on the run after breaking out of prison in 1976 is back behind bars after being arrested in California, authorities said on Wednesday.

Man arrested for bench sitting after dark

An Orlando, Fla., man says he spent nine days incarcerated after he was arrested for sitting on a park bench after dark.

eBay Inc. (EBAY) NewsBite - EBAY Up After Tuesday's Market Rally

eBay (EBAY) opened at $26.44. So far today the stock has hit a low of $26.38 and a high of $26.80. EBAY is now trading at $26.96, up 0.55 (2.08%). After hitting a one-year high of $40.73 in November, the stock hit a one-year low of $25.33 last week. Shares of EBAY are trading a higher this morning after the market posted a strong rebound on Tuesday. Investors are hoping this is not a one-day wonder and that the market can hold on to yesterday's gains. Judging by today's opening, EBAY and the rest of the market might be able to hold on. Technical indicators for EBAY are bearish but improving slightly, while S&P gives the stock its highest 5 STARS (out of 5) strong buy rating. If you’re looking for a hedged play on this stock, consider a July bull-put credit spread below the $22.

VeriSign (VRSN) Names Robins Acting CFO, Sees Q1 Results At Or Above Prior Guidance

After-Hour Movers 4/7: Agria (GRO) Sinks After COO Resigns/Audit Delayed; Aftermarket Tech (ATAC) Up After SmallCap600 Addition

Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Ends

One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias 'sarge' the security support for the old distribution (3.1 alias 'sarge') is coming to an end on March 31st. The Debian project is proud to be able to support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year after a new version has been released.

Vista Service Pack One Almost Here

arogier writes "After numerous delays and an actual release reversal, the official release date for Vista service pack one has been set for Tuesday, March 18th on Windows Update and Microsoft Downloads. It will be released as an automatic update on April 18th. 'It's unclear so far how a February snafu will affect SP1's roll-out. Last month, after Microsoft pushed a pair of prerequisite patches to users, some reported that their machines refused to finish installing one of the fixes, then went into an endless series of reboots. Several days later, Microsoft pulled the update from automatic delivery, said it was working on a solution and promised it would "make the update available again shortly after we address the issue."' It would be a good time for those planning to adopt early to perform requisite backups and locate their restore media

Online Marketing - How Agents Can Use SEO to Save Their Business

RISMEDIA, April 24, 2008-After 23 years as an agent and after spending the last 10 years as a broker, Diana Russell realized her career was facing its end in November of 2007. The sub-prime mortgage mess, a suddenly somnambulant marketplace and a type of concern bordering on consumer hysteria among home buyers had exhausted her financially, emotionally and physically. Her once robust brokerage had no closings but expenses kept coming. After depleting her reserves and trying all sorts of traditional measures Russell suddenly saw the handwriting on the wall: it seemed that everything she had spent learning over the previous 23 years no longer worked. Reluctantly, she started calling her vendors, cutting back her overhead to near zero, and was planning to close shop with no idea of what she would do or where she would go.

Lucky escape for crew after space descent danger THE crew of the Soyuz space capsule that landed in Kazakhstan at the weekend after an unexpectedly severe descent was in serious danger.

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Web Metrics and Grains of Salt

Stock in the measurement firm comScore slid in after-hours trading on Thursday after Google reported surprisingly strong first quarter earnings. Why the decline? Analysts were primed for a poor performance from Google after three straight months of comScore reports showing a slowdown in paid clicks on the Web giant’s sites.

Saudi blogger freed

RIYADH (RTRS): A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday. Fouad Farhan was detained in early December after running an online campaign over 10 men arrested since February 2007 on suspicion of financing militant groups, but whose supporters say they are being punished for pro-democracy activity. “I received a mobile phone message from his wife at 5.30 this morning saying he was released,” said Ahmed al-Omran, who published the news on his website (www.saudijeans.org). “It was surprising. After blocking his website, I thought his detention would go on longer. It’s good news.”

Google rise calms fears of online ad slowdown

Fears that the economic slowdown in the US has infected advertising spending were assuaged last night after Google beat Wall Street expectations with a 42 per cent surge in revenues for the first quarter of the year. The figures, which came after the New York stock market had closed, saw shares in the internet search engine rise 18 per cent in after-hours trading. Wall Street had worried that Google might have shown weakness in US advertising spending as the world’s biggest economy grapples with recession.

Googles 42% revenues rise lays fears of advertising slowdown

Fears that the economic slowdown in the US has infected advertising spending were assuaged last night after Google beat Wall Street expectations with a 42 per cent surge in revenues for the first quarter of the year. The figures, which came after the New York stock market had closed, saw shares in the internet search engine rise 18 per cent in after-hours trading. Wall Street had worried that Google might have shown weakness in US advertising spending as the world’s biggest economy grapples with recession.

Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper

Lucas123 writes "The same Xerox lab that brought us Ethernet, the GUI and the mouse has demonstrated paper that can be reused after printed text automatically deletes itself from its surface in a day. Instead of trashing or recycling after one use, a single piece of paper can be reused up to 100 times. 'The paper contains specially coded molecules that create a print after being exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from a thin bar in a printer. The ultraviolet bar itself is very small, so it can be used in mobile printers. The technology could also be useful for network printing.'"

Philip Morris, HCP joining S&P 500; Circuit City, Commerce Bancorp out

SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Philip Morris International Inc. will replace Circuit City Stores Inc. in the Standard & Poor's 500 index after the close of trading on Friday, March 28, S&P said late Thursday. Philip Morris, which is being spun off by Altria Group Inc., will also replace Allegheny Technologies Inc. in the S&P 100. Allegheny will remain in the S&P 500. S&P also said HCP Inc. will replace Commerce Bancorp Inc. in the S&P 500 after the close of trading on Monday, March 31. Commerce Bancorp is being acquired by Toronto-Dominion Bank. In addition, Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. will replace Hillenbrand Industries in the S&P MidCap 400, and Hillenbrand Inc. will replace Caraustar Industries Inc. in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on March 31.

Philip Morris, HCP joining S&P 500; Circuit City, Commerce Bancorp out

SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Financial) - Philip Morris International Inc. will replace Circuit City Stores Inc. in the Standard & Poor's 500 index after the close of trading on Friday, March 28, S&P said late Thursday. Philip Morris, which is being spun off by Altria Group Inc., will also replace Allegheny Technologies Inc. in the S&P 100. Allegheny will remain in the S&P 500. S&P also said HCP Inc. will replace Commerce Bancorp Inc. in the S&P 500 after the close of trading on Monday, March 31. Commerce Bancorp is being acquired by Toronto-Dominion Bank. In addition, Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. will replace Hillenbrand Industries in the S&P MidCap 400, and Hillenbrand Inc. will replace Caraustar Industries Inc. in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on March 31.

South Africa's Lorgat named new ICC chief

South Africa's Haroon Lorgat has been appointed the new chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body announced today. The 47-year-old Lorgat will take over from Malcolm Speed after the governing body's annual conference starting on June 29, the ICC said in a statement. Lorgat, a former South Africa chief selector, was chosen a week after his compatriot Imtiaz Patel turned down the offer after being named the preferred candidate.

Hoggard included in Lions squad

LONDON (Agencies): Matthew Hoggard has been named in the England Lions 12-man squad to face New Zealand on 8 May at the Rose Bowl. The seamer has been given an early chance to impress the England selectors after he was dropped after the first Test defeat to New Zealand in March. "He is a fighter and he will not want to give up his England place easily," said national selector Geoff Miller. The Lions will be led by Kent's Robert Key and also include Matt Prior, Ravi Bopara, Owais Shah and Chris Tremlett. But there is no place for Durham's Steve Harmison, who was dropped alongside Hoggard after England's 189-run defeat in Hamilton. Hoggard has been in excellent touch during the early stages of the season, taking eight County Championship wickets for Yorkshire, including 6-57 against Hampshire at Headingley.

West Belfast artist honoured

Ahead of a weekend of events to mark the murder of three West Belfast IRA volunteers in Gibraltar, the main witness to the killings of two of the dead – Dan McCann and Mairéad Farrell – has arrived in West Belfast where she will speak this evening, the 20th anniversary of their deaths. Carmen Proetta, who successfully sued several English newspapers after they attempted to discredit her when she came forward as a witness, will speak at St Mary’s University College tonight (Thursday, 7pm), along with Joe Austin, who travelled to the British colony 20 years ago this week to collect the bodies of the Gibraltar Three, Dan McCann, Mairéad Farrell and Seán Savage. Speaking to the Andersonstown News last night after arriving in the city, Carmel Proetta said that 20 years after the murders she still gets “very upset� whenever she rec

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