Ghana`s President John Kufuor celebrated with his citizens 50 years of Independence, last week, independence that forever changed the face of Africa.

In the 2005 Zippo Hot Tour national battle of the bands, local Cincinnati alternative rock band The Times was chosen as a national finalist, and called "One of the top ten unsigned bands in the country" by Maxim Magazine.

Online casino gaming is one of the fastest growing business on the web. More and more players everyday are looking to join and play at web-based casinos, but until now some of these people had compatibility issues. Most online casino games are platform based and these platforms happen to be PC`s, Mac users have therefore been left out of the loop.

Collegehoops, the web`s largest independent college basketball site, returns for its fourth season with creator and operator Shawn Siegel, law student, at its helm.

Game Tunnel is hosting its fourth annual Game of the Year awards. This company, which runs a website for the best Independent Video Games, will be handing out the prize for Sports Game of the Year.

A website that was formally a grass-roots, unofficial news website featuring Iraqi news will with the help of the Reuters news service and the United Nations become the country`s first true independent and commcercial news service serving the Iraqi and foreign media.

New announcement of online video renting website was timed to demonstrate the continued strength of the independent video retailer in America.

Parody known as "Ya Grandma`s a Gangsta" wins more honors at New York indie film festival, star/subject is happy to be bustin` out the rhymes for her homies, who are usually more than 50 years younger than she is.