AFP - Japan could reimpose a ban on US beef lifted last month after a beef shipment may have violated rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakaga

AP - Rescue teams searched early Friday for two miners who were unable to escape after a fire broke out in an underground coal mine. Nineteen miners were able to flee the blaze, state officia

PC World - IEEE 802.11n task group approves draft specification for much-anticipated, fast next-generation Wi-Fi.{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, saying it is an essential tool in monitoring al-Qaida and other terrori

AP - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine — a request th

AP - Antonio Davis has never been one to cause trouble — until he thought his wife was in danger. When Davis responded by climbing into the stands, he did more than jump across the scorer'

Reuters - One of Iraq's most influential Sunni
Arab leaders called on Friday for American journalist Jill
Carroll to be freed and her father made an appeal on Arabic
television stations

Reuters - Japan is considering stopping all imports
of U.S. beef -- just a month after lifting a ban on the meat --
after finding risk materials that could cause mad cow disease
in a shipment fr

Reuters - The United States dismissed on
Thursday a conditional truce offered in a tape attributed to
Osama bin Laden and said it "does not negotiate with
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Reuters - Nigerian militants who have waged a
month-long campaign of sabotage and kidnapping against the oil
industry said on Friday they would resume their attacks on the
world's eigh

Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department, facing
lawsuits and congressional hearings on President George W.
Bush's domestic eavesdropping program, sought on Thursday to
persuade congression

AFP - Iraq braced for the announcement of final election results as authorities tightened security and Baghdad was wracked with explosions from military operations in its southe

AFP/Al-Jazeera TV - A new audiotape by Osama bin Laden and a recent airstrike targeting his deputy have dramatically swung the spotlight back on the impossibly remote region where they are thought

AFP - At least 52 people were killed when an overcrowded bus skidded off a slippery mountain road and plunged into a gorge in Indian Kashmir.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad closed ranks in talks between the two allies, as both nations face growing international pressure.{br}{br}Vi

AP - Japan's agriculture minister recommended a total halt to American beef imports if officials confirm a recent U.S. meat shipment contained material considered at risk for mad cow disease,