Why was Russia picked to host the recent Group of Eight summit? The G-8, a grouping normally consisting of democratic, open-market economies, met in St. Petersburg, Russia, former seat of the Russian Empire, also Russian president Vladimir Putin?s hometown.

Whitney Houston, one of the best selling singers in history is filing for a legal separation from hubbie Bobby Brown. After 14 years is seems as if the couple`s rocky marriage is coming to an end.

As said by a security researcher, Microsoft may have intentionally did not reveal information about a new unpatched weakness in the PowerPoint program. Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. had warned the public of a new unpatched weakness in PowerPoint, the presentations program of Microsoft Office.

The life of entertainment stars is not as easy as it seems. According to a recent judge order, Michael Jackson has to pay $60,000 in attorney fees for his ex-wife as she pursues a custody case against the pop superstar.

The Wimbledon tennis championship has always been one step ahead of all other tournaments in the world. The prestige that comes with winning this title has always been an incentive for men and women for decades to vie for the top prize. However, now they will have another reason to fight until the finish ? the All England Club announced this week that it was increasing Wimbledon prize money by nearly 9% up from last year.

Delivering high tech stylish design and top of the notch technology, Sony announces another addition to their highly popular Walkman Mp3 series of players. The new players will demonstrate unprecedented battery life for long hours of functionality ? up to three hours of playing with just three minutes charge!

Trade officials in the Federal Republic of Germany seized MP3 players from SanDisk`s booth at a trade show in Berlin recently, after SanDisk lost a legal fight over the use of compression technology in their MP3 players in an Italian court.

Dell, the number one computer maker, will install Google software on its systems to bust Google`s competition with Microsoft, as said on Thursday. Google Desktop will become a part of Dell`s systems; the application contains personal computing applications, a tool bar carrying the Google brand and a co-branded Internet home page.

Point guard Andre Barrett was signed on Tuesday by the Toronto Raptors as announced by the team. Barrett contract is for the rest of this season including the 2006-07 season to come. The financial details of the contract were not published, according to the team`s policy.

Discount Watch Store considers itself to be the leading provider of discount quality watches over the internet, and the company has recently added the high-quality Croton Watch line to their robust watch inventory. Zai Zhu, president and founder of thr Discount Watch Store, is excited about the new offerings.

Several weeks ago Google blacklisted BMW from their results page after discovering that the site did not abide by Googles guidelines. However, it seems that Google turned its head when it came to American websites. Is Google partaking in a bit of favoritism, or did the American sites follow the guidelines in a manner that was deemed appropriate by Google webmasters?

New Orleans police, who gunned down a man wielding a 3-inch knife, appear to be justified in the killing. An investigation is still ongoing and all the officers involved have been put on administrative leave.

The right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison this week after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He intends to appeal.

Crescent State Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of Crescent Financial Corporation (Nasdaq SmallCap CRFN), has announced that Michael Stellar has joined the organization as the Apex City Executive. In this position, Stellar will direct all commercial and retail bank operations in Apex and will manage the operations of the organizations Apex branch.

A 36 year old woman from Montreal, Canada has made a decision to freeze some of her own eggs for her 7 year old daughter to use if she ever decides that she wants to have children in the future. The girl was born with a genetic condition called Turner?s Syndrome which essentially causes ovarian problems and sterility due to a missing or incomplete X chromosome.