Reuters - Global sales of digital music
tripled to $1.1 billion in 2005 and the popularity of
recordings on iPods and mobile phones will result in digital
music generating 25% of worldwi

AP - A top Sunni politician appealed Friday for the release of an American female journalist and urged U.S. and Iraqi forces to stop arresting Iraqi women as a deadline set by the reporter'

AP - Security forces went on high alert in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq to prevent possible terror attacks ahead of Friday's announcement of preliminary election results, police and milita

AP - A Slovak military plane carrying troops back from Kosovo crashed into a mountainside in northeastern Hungary, killing at least 42 people, officials said Friday.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

Reuters - Cuba's leadership has begun to prepare
for the day when President Fidel Castro is no longer around,
amid concern the island's communist system could implode in a
politic

AP - The head of Russia's atomic energy agency said Friday that Iran is ready for detailed discussions on the proposal to conduct Iran's uranium enrichment in Russia, the RIA-Novosti ne

AP - A roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Friday, killing four Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a penchant for changing symbols — he's renamed Congress, the Supreme Court and the country itself since taking power.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP/File - Nigerian oil workers' unions threatened to withdraw their members from the troubled Niger delta region if the government fails to stop the violence there.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP/Jiji Press/File - Prosecutors have begun grilling executives at Livedoor, the once high-flying Internet firm at the centre of recent market pandemonium in Japan, reports said, as pressure grew

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - In the barrage of questions fired at Paul Martin in recent weeks about his sagging Liberal campaign, one in particular painted a telling picture about just how mu

Reuters - A former Serb commander, now an
Australian citizen, charged with war crimes committed during
Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence has been arrested in
Australia, Attorney-Gener

Reuters - Portugal's parliament has passed a
measure aimed at boosting home-grown music by setting a quota
for local talent on radio, a government spokesman said on
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Reuters - A growing number of rock star wannabes
are launching online, using Internet buzz, free samples and
cyberscouts to get their music heard.{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits "Mustang Sally" and "In The Midnight Hour," died of a heart attack Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his manageme

AP - Osama bin Laden warned in an audiotape aired Thursday that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States but offered the American people a "long-term truce" without specifying t