BOSTON (Reuters) - Electrodes implanted into the brain to treat a man with a stubborn case of ringing in the ear instead sparked an out-of-body sensation, doctors in Belgium reported on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc’s AOL Internet division said on Wednesday that it would let users opt out of online advertisements that are presented to individuals based on the Web sites they have visited.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday voted to ban exclusive deals between building owners and cable television providers to give apartment and condominium dwellers a greater choice of pay television services.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government approved in principle on Wednesday a new food safety law aimed at raising standards at every level of production, a senior official said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Insurance and holiday company for the over-50s Saga has launched a social networking Web site for silver surfers in a bid to emulate the huge popularity of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Houston Rockets overcame a 45-point effort from Kobe Bryant to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 95-93 in their NBA season opener on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A book billed as an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the “Harry Potter” book series infringes copyright and attempts to cash in on the successful series, author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. said in statements announcing a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The big four U.S. professional sports leagues will take in more than $2 billion in sponsorship revenue this year, up 15 percent from 2006, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Real Madrid fans from Barcelona are seldom seen and Manchester United supporters born in Liverpool are just as rare.
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LONDON (Reuters) - All eyes at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich will be on U.S. star Justin Timberlake, who dominated the show in 2006, and British singer Pete Doherty’s performance on Thursday night.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Fabrice Santoro thrilled the home crowd by crushing world number three Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-2 in the second round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - “Here’s the beauty of being me,” says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. “They can’t buy me off.” Seinfeld, whose “Bee Movie” debuts in theaters on Friday, grins when he tells his off-the-cuff joke, and although the reporters with him laugh, everyone knows he is not joking.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The amount of body fat a child accumulates over time may be related to their mother’s body mass index prior to and during pregnancy, study findings suggest.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cornerback Darrell Green and wide receivers Cris Carter and Herman Moore head the list of 124 nominees submitted for election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2008.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Facebook, the social networking Internet site that is sweeping the globe with a quarter million new members every day, has targeted the world’s second-largest Internet market, registering a local Web address in China.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Thirteen percent of healthy adults were found to have some type of undiagnosed — but likely harmless — abnormality in the brain, according to a Dutch study published on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African Americans are more likely than their white or Hispanic counterparts to check themselves out of the hospital against their doctors’ advice, a new study has found.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 380,000 “Galaxy Warriors” toy figures sold by Family Dollar Stores Inc are being recalled because the surface paints contain excessive levels of lead, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Derian Hatcher will undergo surgery to repair a damaged left knee and is expected to be sidelined for three or four weeks, the team said on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Lane Garrison, who played an inmate on the television drama “Prison Break,” was sentenced to three years and four months in prison on Wednesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - It’s not the neon lights or hip-hop beats that make this an unusual whistle stop in the November 2008 presidential contest. It’s the youthful faces of those in the crowd.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first full genetic map of a cat — a domestic pedigreed Abyssinian — is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS and other diseases, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The St. Louis Cardinals have promoted assistant John Mozeliak to become their new general manager, the team said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Heather Mills, estranged wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, says Britain’s tabloid media drove her close to suicide and wrongly cast her as a gold-digger.
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DETROIT (Billboard) - Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood’s memoir has just hit U.S. bookshelves, but he’s already talking about another volume — and even a film adaptation.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese children who lose weight through diet and exercise may become stronger and more agile in the process, a study shows.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Golf’s myriad regulations will get a tweak after the Royal and Ancient (R&A) issued amendments on Wednesday to its rulebook for 2008. In an attempt to make penalties more proportionate to the offences the R&A, in conjunction with the United States Golf Association, has amended 28 of its 34 playing rules.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - San Diego Padres centre fielder Mike Cameron was suspended for 25 games on Wednesday after testing positive for a banned stimulant for a second time.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Grady Little resigned on Tuesday as speculation grew that former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre was poised to join the National League club.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With shows like ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” Hispanics are making big strides in primetime, according to a report released Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, is in talks to put applications from Web search leader Google Inc on its cell phones, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Canadian lobster and tuna fisherman Everett Condon had never traveled further south than the United States until this year, when he spent his off-season going to tango shows and getting plastic surgery in Argentina.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British film project has turned MySpace users into movie moguls, giving them a say in choosing the director, cast, soundtrack and marketing model.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the latest antics of “The Simpsons”, Bart chases a giant ape through a video game factory, Lisa destroys a logging camp and Marge storms city hall with an angry mob.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hospitals seeking to keep patients from picking up infections should focus as much on cleaning up invisible germs as on removing the visible dirt, a British doctor argued on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - English rock band Coldplay is nearing completion of its fourth album, due in the first half of 2008.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared with vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries have twice the risk of complications and deaths of both infants and mothers when the fetus is in the normal, head-down position, according to findings from a study conducted in Latin America.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Philharmonic announced plans on Wednesday to tour China and Taiwan but failed to confirm media reports that the United States’s oldest symphony orchestra will also perform in North Korea.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The San Antonio Spurs opened the new NBA season with a 106-97 victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp are supplying Libya’s government with 150,000 rugged laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to meet the needs of children in developing countries.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What people eat and how fast they grow are both significant causes of cancer, but many Americans still incorrectly believe that factors such as pesticides on food are bigger causes, experts reported on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan is being investigated on possible assault charges against a photographer, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The largest U.S. mobile service provider AT&T Inc and smaller rival T-Mobile USA revealed new handsets on Monday to attract a growing number of consumers who like to send e-mails or text messages.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It might not have gone more than four games, but the Boston Red Sox’s second World Championship since 2004 still boosted Fox to a primetime win Sunday night.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Houston Astros re-signed veteran catcher Brad Ausmus to a one-year, $2-million contract the Major League Baseball club said on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ignorance is fuelling the spread of hepatitis B in Asia, where patients are failing to get proper treatment and not enough is done to reduce transmission of the virus from mother to child, an expert said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the states accusing it of continuing monopolistic behavior asked a federal judge to temporarily delay the end of government oversight of the software giant, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet media company Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Free agent pitcher Luther Hackman was suspended for 50 games on Tuesday after testing positive for an undisclosed performance-enhancing substance.
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