AFP - The simple act of using a computer for email or the Internet can mobilise armies of hidden agents and criminals out to subvert the system and business, the OECD says in a study on cyber crime.
AP - CORRENS, France (AP) Brangelina must be cocooning. The paparazzi swarming France's Cote d'Azur can't find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Locals mutter or giggle about the invasion of Hollywood glam. A flyover of their new home in a luxurious villa turned up no clues about a report they've added a set of twins which Pitt's manager says is "not true."
AFP - Acupuncture provides significant pain relief for patients after head or neck cancer surgery, according to a clinical study released at the annual meeting here of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said on Saturday the dollar peg for currencies in the Gulf Arab
countries had served the region well and any changes to the peg
would be a sovereign matter.
AP - Residents cleaned up Saturday after a tornado plowed a trail of destruction through the east side of Indianapolis, but they gave thanks that nobody was killed and that the only injuries were minor.
AP - The U.S. military says one of its helicopters has crashed south of Baghdad, wounding two American soldiers.
Reuters - Voting began in Macedonia's
parliamentary election on Sunday, widely seen as a test of its
political maturity after campaign violence raised fears its
slow march toward EU membership could be further delayed.
Reuters - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.