Armstrong Surrenders Tour De France (Web promotion) Lead San Francisco Chronicle - 1

Armstrong Surrenders Tour De France (Web promotion) Lead San Francisco Chronicle - 1

Armstrong Surrenders Tour De France Lead
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago By JEROME PUGMIRE, AP Sports Writer. Lance Armstrong surrendered the overall lead in the Tour de France to take some pressure off his team. The six-time defending champion fully intends to wear the yellow jersey again soon.

Winning a ticket to wider audience
Boston Globe - 2 hours ago By Diana Brown, Globe Correspondent | July 10, 2005. Johnny Depp will likely take viewers down a zany road in Tim Burton's ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" when it opens Friday, but Arlington's Joan C. Moravick

AB Foods to Buy Littlewoods to Expand Primark Chain (Update5)
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Associated British Foods Plc agreed to buy Littlewoods Plc's UK stores from the billionaire Barclay brothers for 409 million pounds ($713 million) to expand its discount-clothing business.

'Four' No. 1 abroad; 'War' rages
Hollywood Reporter - 10 hours ago By Bec Smith. SYDNEY -- "War of the Worlds" continued its invasion of international cinemas this weekend, grossing an estimated $60.5 million for a total to date after only 12 days of $201 million. Meanwhile, "Fantastic Four" bowed No.

Oh, happy Dale: Junior claims elusive victory
Chicago Sun-Times - 1 hour ago The son of a wildly popular champion who died while a nation watched the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt's low-key style and obvious talent, combined with his tragic loss, seemed to shelter him from the criticism and down-home intrigue that often permeates

A DVD Standoff in Hollywood
New York Times - 8 hours ago LOS ANGELES - The Hollywood studio executives who gathered here late last month at an annual home entertainment conference in Century City were all chuckles and backslaps. In front of several hundred industry

Body of missing US commando found in Afghanistan
Aljazeera.com - 38 minutes ago The body of a missing US special forces soldier has been found in eastern Afghanistan, the US army said. The military said all indications were that the commando died in fighting, denying an earlier claim by the Taliban that they kidnapped and killed him.

Revolutionary Bakiyev wins Kyrgyz poll by landslide
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Dmitry Solovyov. BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's Kurmanbek Bakiyev pledged on Monday to put together a government that would turn round his poor nation's fortunes after he won a runaway victory in presidential elections on Sunday.

Potter's magic spell turns boys into bookworms
Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago Anyone old enough to count knows there are only six days to go. Just after midnight on Saturday, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is to go on sale to millions of eager children. And the good news, in

Arroyo urges political groups to respect church stand
Xinhua - 1 hour ago MANILA, July 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Monday calls on political groups to respect the stand expressed by the influential catholic bishops and join hands to move on. The