Florida state prosecutors are dropping charges against a teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. The decision comes after a judge rejected a plea deal that would have given Debra Lafave three years of house arrest and seven years probation.

A lot of parents send their kids to school with a cellular phone. However, the little students don`t always follow the school rules to turn them off during class time. And even more kids are expected to come with cellular phones this year.

An exhibition on loan from the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. opened in the Federal Republic of Germany on Thursday, at the same building that once served as a printing house for posters promoting Nazi racial policies.

It was a very sad tournament for Argentina. Their vibrant team of excellent soccer players showed remarkable ? and at times even amazing- soccer skills, and many soccer fans around the world were positive that Argentina would go all the way.

The Denver Nuggets were in a good mood after securing their first division title in 18 years. The Nuggets were lead by Carmelo Anthony with 28 points, and Ruben Patterson right behind him with 21 brining the Nuggets to a 110-98 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, Monday night.

The brother of the late Pat Tillman, former NFL player killed in the line of duty by friendly fire in Afghanistan, spoke out viciously against the continuing war in the region

The world`s largest and fastest growing legal digital music radio network, Mercora, recently announced that its IM Radio, Individual Modulation, service has taken over 45% of the daily radio programming in the U.S. This includes AM, FM, and XM web radio.

A pastor near Seattle, Washington, the home of Microsoft, is threatening a boycott of the software giant along with Hewlett-Packard and other business that support a gay civil rights bill. Gay activists protested the company`s decision to pull its backing of the measure, prompting a turnaround in its previous official stance.

Announcing that the power of Torque-created games are coming to Xbox over the Xbox Live service, and have agreed to bring Marble Blast and other titles online via the soon to be released Xbox Live Arcade.

Morpheus, provider of eBusiness solutions, has announced this week that a leading UK online book supplier will invest in IBM WebSpehere Commerce technology in order to extend its e-commerce capabilities.

LinkConnector is an Affiliate Marketing Network that has just announced a new agreement with thinkingVOICE, in order to launch a new pay-for-performance event, to be called "Pay Per Call".

In its lawsuit, Microsoft said it was seeking a court order forcing Dr Lee to abide by terms of confidentiality and non-compete agreements that he signed at Microsoft. His contract forbids working for direct rivals within a year, Microsoft said. Google said the claim had no merit.

In a dramatic rescue of British troops being held in an Iraqi jail, British forces rammed the walls of a jail in Basra, engaging Shitte troops in gun battles in an action the British dryly referred to as an effort to "collect" their men.

The latest version of the OutSystem Platform was pre-launched this week by OutSystem. The new version will support both Microsoft .NET and J2EE applications.

Playwright Steven A. Butler, writer and creator of THE TRUTH (Welcome to the Down Low), will premiere his new play during World AIDS Day December 1st, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. at the H Street Playhouse. The music and lyrics are written by Courtney Baker-Oliver and Christopher Burnett.