Rowling's Potter Picks Up (Web promotion) Populist Lit Award Forbes - 3 hours

Rowling's Potter Picks Up (Web promotion) Populist Lit Award Forbes - 3 hours

Rowling's Potter Picks Up Populist Lit Award
Forbes - 3 hours ago You'd think that worldwide sales of more than 10 million books would be prize enough, but you'd be wrong. JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been named the first book of the year by the

Refco's British chief executive arrested, owing firm $430m
Independent - 47 minutes ago By Katherine Griffiths in New York. A British University of Cambridge graduate, who was until Monday the chief executive of the futures trading firm Refco, was charged yesterday with hiding transactions worth

France, Sweden, Serbia & Montenegro Reach World Cup (Update3)
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- France, Serbia & Montenegro and Sweden advanced to soccer's World Cup after winning final qualifiers today, while Turkey, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Spain made the playoffs. England beat Poland 2-1 to win its group.

Analysis: Microsoft, Yahoo Alliance Takes Aim At IM Competition
InformationWeek - 3 hours ago Microsoft and Yahoo said they would provide customers in the second quarter of next year with the basic communication services of text communication, computer-to-computer voice calls and presence, which is the ability to see who is available on the network

NOPD Lawyer: Tape Doesn't Tell Whole Tale
ABC News - 56 minutes ago By ROSS SNEYD Associated Press Writer. NEW ORLEANS Oct 12, 2005 � A police union official and a lawyer for officers accused in the beating of a retired teacher on Wednesday sharply disputed the man's contention