05/07/2008,
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AP - Pakistani security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country's volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal elders, officials said Saturday.
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06/06/2008,
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Employers shed 49,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose the most since 1986.
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06/06/2008,
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I can't believe it's been nearly a year since people lined up around the country for the original iPhone. Of course, in the end it made no difference whether you spent a week without a shower sleeping on a lawnchair on 5th Avenue or dropped by an Apple store three hours after the official launch -- everyone who wanted one managed to buy one. And now comes the expectation that CEO Steve Jobs will use his appearance at the Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference on Monday in San Francisco to unveil the next generation.
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02/07/2008,
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AP Interview: Spitz sees 'success story for all times sake' when Phelps goes for 8 golds again
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04/07/2008,
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Punk-loving robots pogo in the name of science
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04/07/2008,
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AP - Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites.
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04/07/2008,
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Ageing, as you'll know from following Sir Terry Wogan's career, can be a cruel
business and the most terrible symptoms, apart my very specific problem that
I seem to resemble fellow knight Salman Rushdie a bit more every day, are
increased grumpiness and a tendency to repeat oneself.
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04/07/2008,
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the world's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Inc said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion) purchase price.

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03/07/2008,
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AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
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04/07/2008,
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How the problems with school test results came about
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03/07/2008,
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WTA resists as women play on outer courts in favor of top men's draws.
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12/06/2008,
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Researchers have found that people who don't get enough sleep often indulge in excessive snacking.
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05/07/2008,
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The former Portuguese detective in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann plans to publish an "explosive" book on the case in which he asserts that the British toddler is dead, among other claims, London's Daily Mail reported.
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27/05/2008,
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Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin is to step down from his post as the head of one of Britain's biggest companies.
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03/07/2008,
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GPs in England operate "gentlemen's agreements" to stop patients moving between practices, a minister says.
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01/07/2008,
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Spam is a modern nuisance, but have you ever wondered how clogged your inbox
would get if you clicked on all those offers for breast enlargements, penis
enhancements and the chance to share in the obscene wealth of an African
prince?
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03/07/2008,
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A Jewish school is cleared of racially discriminating against an 11-year-old boy it refused to admit.
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04/07/2008,
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A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Winston Churchill was
talking about Stalin's foreign policy but much the same applies to the
Russian orphan who grew up to be the world's fifteenth-richest man.
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