A top U.S. envoy says Sudan`s government and the largest Darfur rebel group has agreed to sign a peace plan, marking major progress in an internationally backed effort to end the death and destruction in western Sudan. At least 180,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million forced to flee their homes in what the United Nations has called one of the world`s worst humanitarian crises.

That Republicans are believed to be beholden to the interests of ?big business? is hardly a secret. But what Democrats don?t necessarily like to bring attention to themselves for is their own weakness to become as susceptible to the wiles of big business as the ostensibly small-government conservatives of the Grand Old Party.

BitTorrent" is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution tool written by programmer Bram Cohen and debuted at CodeCon 2002. Cohen designed BitTorrent to be able to download files from many different sources, thus speeding up the download time, especially when the peers are on ADSL connections.

Zapatista rebels in rickety trucks and buses streamed out of their jungle strongholds for the first time in nearly five years for a six-month tour of Mexico aimed at reshaping the nation`s politics. The trip through all 31 states and Mexico City is meant to influence Mexico`s July presidential election.

According to some security organizations, a new unpatched bug in Microsoft Word 2000 is actively being broken by attackers. Symantec`s researchers had analyzed a sample of the in-the-wild attack and confirmed that it worked against a fully-patched edition of Office 2000.

A blog-tracking site Technorati has found that the blogosphere is constantly growing, doubling every six months for the last three years, which means around 175,000 new blogs per day worldwide.

More and more boys and girls are choosing to not play baseball, softball, football and basketball so that they can play the sport of lacrosse.

Already, villagers of Guimaras Island have gathered on the beaches and mangroves in an attempt to contain the mess, but local Filipino Coast Guard Commander Harold Jarder said the oil had spread from the small island of Guimaras towards nearby island of Panay.

The entertainment fans are waiting for the veteran film critic Roger Ebert to recover from the cancer operation he has undergone recently. Because of the operation, which required the reconstruction of his jaw, Ebert, 64, has spent two months in hospital, which had been, as he said, no entertainment and no fun at all.

A gynecologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for raping and fondling patients who came to his clinics looking for treatment. Prosecutors also say he prescribed painkillers for no medical reasons, pressured patients into surgeries and double-billed companies for procedures.

Several right-wing members of the Chilean government have proposed that three statues in honor of the late General Augusto Pinochet be erected in and around the country

Bully Pulpit Books` general editor, Mark Joseph, in association with W Publishing Group, will soon publish and release `Pop Goes Religion`, the first novel by veteran journalist Terry Mattingly.

Yahoo Inc. has recently acquired Upcoming, an online event-planning site. Yahoo hopes to gain more content and information regarding news and events taking place in local communities.

Houston got a rude awakening after the All-Star celebrations which ended last week. The Rockets got hammered by the Suns who look to have the Rocket?s number dialed on automatic.

A co-anchor of ABC`s "World News Tonight" broadcast and an ABC cameraman suffered serious head wounds Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Taji, north of Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier was also wounded in the attack. The wounded ABC team was stabilized at a military hospital, and then later flown to Germany for further medical care the network said in a statement.