General Motors Corp. and auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. announced deals with the United Auto Workers this week that would help the struggling companies cut labor costs by offering early-retirement buyouts to 113,000 U.S. hourly workers.

Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have visited virtual Second Life casinos, following an invitation from the developing firm Linden Labs.

In Framce, the nation`s worst violence in nearly four decades has declined slowly over the last week, but some of the worst incidents of violence over the weekend occurred in southern France. A poll published by Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper Sunday indicated that 71 percent of those surveyed do not believe President Jacques Chirac can resolve the social problems that fueled the riots.

While it will be difficult to determine exactly who will be the individual that puts the United States of America over the 300 million persons population mark, it is expected that within the next week America will pass this milestone and become, behind China and India, the third most populous country on the planet.

If you`re into trilogies, but you`re tired of the usual Lord of the Rings type books, this news is for you. Straight from Publishamerica comes a new kind of trilogy like nothing you`ve ever read before.

HardCore Web Content Management v5.6 for PHP, ASP and JSP/Java has been released. New features include a statistics module with more than 40 different real-time website visitor usage reports.

FEDERAL WAY - Even with home-grown gold medalist Megan Quann in the building, Michael Phelps was the clear fan favorite Monday night at an intimate event featuring four U.S. Olympic champions at the King County Aquatic Center.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said Sunday that it would sharply increase its investment in malaria research, awarding $258.3 million in grants to hasten ways of preventing and treating the disease. One grant, for $107.6 million, will fund accelerated work on what could be the first malaria vaccine, under development in Rixensart, Belgium.

EthoStream showcases its new VOD product at the national LA Quinta convention. The new package features Video-on-Demand, Voice-over-IP, and many other new and friendly features.

In some religions, it is considered appropriate to separate the sexes in houses of worship on the principle that doing so will help the congregant focus their spiritual energies on the object of worship (whether we?re talking about the prayers or the recipient Who they want to hear the prayers is a matter of contention for some).

No doubt there are plenty of on-screen kisses in store for the entertainment star Daniel Craig, who plays the new James Bond. But none of those will be more famous than the one that premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Copyrights on the Web are a confusing subject. For the sheer mass of, say, videos that are posted online on a daily basis to the uncertain legal standards that apply on the Web and enforced by different countries? legal codes, it might just turn out to be an impossible issue to take on

Miami`s STREETRUNNER will Run the Streets via Counterflow Distribution later this week. Check out the new albun from Streetrunner.

You tube has launched an innovative advertising scheme featuring online video billboards to provide marketers and businesses with new strategies to attract consumers, available on the You Tube site.

NTP, a leading software developer for handheld devices, is taking Palm Inc. to court