Article: Actuate Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results.

Article: US suspect in ex-husband's killing caught
AP Worldstream;  December 4, 2009 ;     398 words ... ... of paying a hit man $400,000 (euro269,000) to kill her former husband, Tucson businessman Gary Triano. The officials say that extradition proceedings have begun for Phillips. Triano died 13 years ago when a bomb destroyed his car.

Article: Dollar surge reins in European, US stock advance
AP Worldstream;  December 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... continue through to the year-end, but analysts cautioned that year-end profit-taking ... especially with the year end now rapidly approaching ... over the last couple of years sooner than previously ... percent in the third quarter. That was a better ...

Article: Chicken stuffed with cocaine is recipe for arrest
AP Worldstream;  December 4, 2009 ;     416 words ... ... carrying a cooked chicken stuffed with more than $4,000 worth of cocaine. Agents decided the fully cooked chicken that 32-year-old Wagner Mauricio Linares Aragon brought with him on a flight Saturday from El Salvador warranted closer inspection. Inside ...

Article: In Bolivia vote, Indian power a central issue
AP Online;  December 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to easily win re-election to a five-year term, the focus in Charagua is on the ... dictators," says Changaray, a 42-year-old farmer's son with a boxer's build ... more than a huge sand flat for half the year. Many of the town's 1,600 residents ...

Article: Study finds 'slight' impact of Games on Vancouver
AP Online;  December 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... studies required by the International Olympic Committee to analyze the overall impact of the games in the host city over a 12-year span. The study is designed to assist bidding cities and future organizing committees to "maximize the benefits of the ...

Article: Biggest Brazil retailer buys stake in rival chain
AP Worldstream;  December 4, 2009 ;     643 words ... ... Pao de Acucar with other members of his family. Pao de Acucar has Brazil's biggest network of supermarkets and earlier this year bought Brazil's second-largest appliance chain, Ponto Frio, in a stock and cash deal valued at about 824 million reals ...

Article: North Korea-made designer jeans launched in Sweden
AP Online;  December 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... communist regime. Still, over the years, the challenge of doing business ... kronor ($220) _ more than two years' wages for an average North ... been banned in the country for years since they are considered a ... said it took his team almost a year to get the official invitation ...