The Houston Astros have signed slugger Carlos Lee to a six year, $100 million contract over Thanksgiving weekend. The free agent, 30, got the richest contract in franchise history

Our view is that if Iran takes any further enrichment-related steps, the international community will have to consider additional measures to constrain Iran`s nuclear ambitions, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington, D.C.

Britain`s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill favored summarily executing Adolf Hitler in an electric chair if captured by the Allies rather than holding "farce" trials. Churchill also said that Britain should retaliate for Nazi attacks in Czechoslovakia by destroying three German villages for every Czech village assaulted by the Nazis.

XO Communications has entered the world of sports. XO recently announced that it has officially been chosen as the telecommunications provider to the famous Sacramento Kings.

has finally lived up to the hype that surrounded him on draft night. Pietrus was declared as a poor man?s Michael Jordan by many NBA scouts who traveled to France to see him. This season, Mickael Pietrus has emerged from the injured list to rejuvenate the floundering franchise. Pietrus has only been back for two games, and in the first one, he launched multiple airballs, but that is beside the point.

As it was discovered by a recent study by the University of Toronto, Canada, the slang and abbreviations used for instant online messaging do not hurt teens`speech.

A senior British Army officer is criticized the U.S. Army`s performance in Iraq, and did so in a magazine distributed and published by the U.S. Army. "The Army is full of soldiers showing qualities such as patriotism, duty, passion and talent," writes Aylwin-Foster. "Yet," he continues, "it seemed weighed down by bureaucracy."

As if there aren`t enough hazards to be careful from when roaming online space, Microsoft announced that an new unpatched memory corruption in its famed word processor software, Microsoft Word, has been detected and that it might be used for attacking PCs

Dr. John F. Murray, a renowned psychologist specializing in sport performance is suggesting that walking has an added value other than improving physical health. Murray says that walking can also lift the spirit.

Thousands of Air Madrid passengers remain stranded in Spain and other locations, after the company announced bankruptcy Friday. The Spanish airliner stopped all its flights. The Spanish civilian aviation authority revoked the charter airliner`s charter in Saturday.

After breaking two of his ribs during a fishing accident in Costa Rica and missing the chance to commemorate this great feat or the recovery afterwards, Tom Green is planning not to miss a golden opportunity that seems to have fallen from heaven.

Kola Boof has now proven that she was once Osama Bin Laden`s mistress. How? As Sudan`s top novelist, Boof offers her new novel to readers, in startling detail, in her autobiography, `Diary of a Lost Girl`.

A new DVD title from Hollymood Entertainment has recently been released called `The Homegrown Collection`, a compilation of incomprehnsible stunts, funny pranks, and shocking, to the point of disturbing, footage that will leave your bottom jaw wide open.

Consumer spending fell 0.5% in August - the largest monthly fall in nearly four years - reflecting the recent rise in gasoline and domestic fuel prices.Consumer spending fell 0.5% in August - the largest monthly fall in nearly four years - reflecting the recent rise in gasoline and domestic fuel prices. - Sat, 1 Oct 2005 08:00:01 GMT

British Petroleum America (BP America) has announced that its Prudhoe Bay oil field in the state of Alaska will continue to operate at half its normal capacity, translating into a hoped-for total of 150,000 barrels reaching the American market every day.