Efforts to prevent genocide in Darfur, Sudan have run into another hurdle. Two million black Sudanese have already been made homeless as a result of the fighting between African groups and Arab militias, and estimates of those killed range from 100,000 to 450,000. Tribal leaders in Khartoum threatened ?holy war? if non-African troops are sent to try and prevent the deaths of innocents.

A heckler who disrupted a White House appearance by Chinese President Hu Jintao last week was charged in federal court with harassment of a foreign official. The offender has been identified as 47-year-old Wang Wenyi, a reporter with The Epoch Times, an English-language publication strongly supportive of the meditation and spiritual movement Falun Gong, which is banned in China.

In one of the NFL`s most significant moves of the off-season, the Dallas Cowboys signed wide receiver Terrell Owens to a three-year, $25 million contract.

No one seems surprised anymore, and for a good reason. Roger Federer, the world number one ranked tennis player and, at 25, already assured of a spot at the tennis pantheon, has won his 10th Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open.

The Italian soccer community, as well as the entire European one, is extremely anxious about the results of the upcoming Juventus appeal. Juventus`lawyer is hoping that the sentence handed down by a sports tribunal could be reduced soon.

In a nationwide address, Chirac said that he would soften the divisive new labor law and called on student and trade union leaders to begin constructive talks. In his speech, Chirac supported the new law, which will create job contracts giving employers the right to fire workers 25 and under without cause during a trial period on the job.

One can only imagine the frustration North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il must be feeling now that he has been upstaged once again by events in the Middle East. Speculation had risen in recent days that Japan was considering a break with its post-war tradition of pacifism, sparking alarm in a former Japanese colonial project, South Korea.

Learning a new language is never easily, particularly when the language is one of the most difficult ones around. This difficult language is of course English, but now, with a new great software, students can get a hold on pronunciations in a flash.

LTDnetwork`s Qtrax, just like Napster and BitTorrent, is launching its peer-to-peer services again, only this time it is legal. Qtrax and his predecessors offered peer-to-peer music sharing for Internet users and were the pioneers of the pirate online music community.

When it comes to listening to the latest information on the go, nothing quite fits the niche as much as podcasts. Podcasts are wonderful because you can download them and listen to them anywhere and everywhere.

The election delay marks the fourth date officials have set for elections to replace the interim government installed after a rebellion helped force out the unpopular Aristide in February of last year.

The very next month Chinese citizens may actually have a homegrown 3G technology. Being tested during the last three years, the TD-SCDMA-based 3G network, made in China, is now ready to be offered to a small commercial trial of 20,000 users.

Wladimir Klitschko defended his IBF heavyweight boxing title against Calvin Brock on Saturday at Madison Square Garden

France went ahead last week with plans to change the status quo vis-?-vis online music sales, opening up the possibility of lowered penalties for those who download songs without buying licensed versions online from a retailer such as iTunes. At issue, more than simply just downloads, is the ability of those who download songs from iTunes to play those tracks on devices made by Apple?s rivals.

Jean Todt, team boss for Ferrari, said that the team plans to announce its lineup for the 2007 season during their home Italian Grand Prix this September. News comes after the Spanish Grand Prix when Todt was interviewed and asked about Ferrari`s future.