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.

Who is to blame in all of this? The obvious answer, of course, is Syria and Iran. While Lebanon gets bombed back to the Stone Age, Damascus and Tehran sit comfortably, offering empty pledges of support for Lebanon and the Hezbollah terrorists while Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze in Israel and Lebanon die or are maimed.

Wal-Mart may be the biggest retail seller in the US, however, the way business is moving these days, it seems that their biggest competitor, Target, may come out on top. Why the recent drops in sales? Perhaps this has to do with the fact that until recently, Wal-Mart`s business plan focused on a "self-cannibalization" strategy.

Here is a local schedule with news and info for eastern Washington baseball and other athletic activities.

Here?s a theoretical scenario for you to contemplate: Japan, unnerved by North Korea?s having acquired nuclear weapons, decides to develop its own nuclear weapons program.

North Korea has said it plans to finish building a 50-megawatt nuclear reactor in as little as two years, allowing it to produce enough weapons-grade plutonium for 10 weapons annually. Outside analysts and U.S. officials believe North Korea currently has as much as 53 kilograms of plutonium.

Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be,`said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. Opera Software recently announced the permanent removal of the ad banner and licensing fee that so many of its customers have gotten accustomed to from its Web browser.

The sport`s magazine Wisden has named England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff as 2005`s top cricket player. Wednesday`s issue was the 143rd edition of the magazine, and it was a special edition for "Freddie."

The 10th WebAward Competition is on its way, and The Web Marketing Association is calling for entries. The WebAward competition is the standard making benchmark for the industry, and values a site by seven criteria.

Some would think that Britney Spears does not a model mother make, let`s face it entertainment fans, the fact is if she was a normal person, meaning not a Hollywood A-lister with tons of money, she would not be the first person to look at for your pro-life campaign. She drives with her child on her lap, she walks around public bathroom barefoot whilst very pregnant, and she is thought to be drinking a bit while pregnant with her second child.

Embedded speech technologies leader, Sensory, announced that its FluentChip technology library for the RSC-4x family of mixed signal processors has been issued updates and additions.

Sports players breaking the law are not a new phenomena. There are many stories of famous players behaving in a violent way, or driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Hewlett-Packard`s (HP) beleaguered chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, will reportedly step down from her post in January next year, the company said earlier this week. In Washington, the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives gave HP a week to name the private firm Dunn hired to investigate leaks to the media.

Godfather of Funk James Brown, who died on Christmas Day at the age of 73, started his career at the Apollo Theater in Harlem

Businesses today think of various ways to attract as many customers as possible. The simple, straightforward commercial just doesn`t do it anymore.