As it was discovered by a recent study by the University of Toronto, Canada, the slang and abbreviations used for instant online messaging do not hurt teens`speech.

The 49 year-old tennis legend, Martina Navratilova, announced the end of a thirty-two year tennis career on Saturday.

The online social networking website, MySpace, is one of the most popular online venues and there are millions of people interacting on its platform

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on Saturday. Part of a 19-story building has caved in Islamabad.

Apple has called on its costumers not to upgrade to Microsoft`s new Vista operating system; for fear that the new system may not properly work with ITunes. ITunes is a program developed by apple and is used by IPod owners to organize and manage their music.

As Australia moved slowly past allegations that current Prime Minister John Howard promised over a decade ago to step aside after two terms in favor of party up-and-comer Peter Costello, Mr. Howard seemed to indicate ? contrary to reports earlier in the week which said he would refrain from doing so ? that he was considering a run for a fifth term as Australia?s head of government.

The 2005 NBA Rookie of the year Emeka Okafor has teamed up with NASCAR Rookie of the Year Kasey Kahne in launching Team 950, a partnership with the Bobcats Charitable Foundation and the Kasey Kahne Foundation that was established to provide opportunities for children in need.

The talking iPod is another innovation by Apple, which does not stop changing the world`s music-listening habits. The talking iPod will be able to convert the names of tracks, albums and bands into human speech.

The National Cyber Security Awareness Month campain continues until the end of this month with the goal of spreading awareness to companies and indivicuals about protecting their computers, and themselves, from present threats found online.

Out on the West Coast, communities in California have reported temperatures of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Redding, California, about 160 miles north of Sacramento, the capital, reached 110 degrees; Grand Junction, Colorado, hit 101 degrees.

After taking the text-based advertising world by storm, Google is targeting a new market ? the radio one

Donald Rumsfeld will be the first American defense secretary to visit the headquarters of China`s strategic missile fleet. He invited the People`s Republic to play a bigger role in the economic and security affairs of the wider world.

Hundreds of simultaneous explosions revealed surprising coordination by terrorists. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, but copies of a leaflet found at most of the bomb sites carried a call by an Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, for Islamic rule in Bangladesh.

Ensim Pro control panel, from the leader in service enablement and automation software solutions, Ensim, has been recently released. This new control panel supports the CentOS 4 operating system and securely meets the enterprise demand for the CentOS open source alternative.

Shakespeare wrote: "All the world`s a stage, all men and woman merely players", and the curtain rises for the play in the deceiving game of Poker.