Three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez said he will consider retiring from baseball if his shoulder does not return to full strength

The growing popularity of portable music players has helped Apple to achieve it`s best-ever quarter, as iPod sales accounted for a good portion of the $320 million in sales for the three months before and including June 25, compared to $61 million at the same time last year.

The number 2 soft drink company in the world, Pepsi, is expected to issue a new brand of sort drink this summer. The new drink will be a fruit-flavored diet drink and will be called "Jazz."

At least nine are dead and hundreds of thousands displaced as the northeast is hit by its worst flooding in years. In northeast Pennsylvania alone, as many as 200,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a result of rising waters on the Susquehanna River.

The founders of Bluemotorcycle Consulting pay tribute to their fond memories of countless hours of playing the pencil, dice, and paper version of Dungeons & Dragons with a free fansite geared toward the hotly anticipated release of Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Finally, when it seemed like Nicole Kidman gave up completely on finding love again she did. It seemed like it took the entertainment superstar decades to erase the memories of her once husband from her mind.

The long-awaited test launch of a North Korean missile sparked condemnations from the United States, South Korea, Japan and China, even as it was described by Washington as a ?failure?. U.S. anti-ballistic missile batteries on the Pacific Coast had been activated in case the Taepodong-2 missile managed to exceed expectations and reach what is believed to be its longest range.

Thailand said to be preparing papers for the extradition of John Mark Karr, the confessed killer of 6-year-old Jon-Benet Ramsey 10 years ago, to the United States. They said the 41-year-old Karr will be flown to Colorado, possibly as early as next week, where he will then before a court face charges of murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault.

Ethanol futures, which are allegedly becoming an investment of choice even among such elite entrepreneurs such as America`s Bill Gates of Microsoft and the UK`s Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group, has drawn $14.3 billion in support, and appears set for potentially bigger gains in the coming years.

If there ever were a competition of the most bizarre ways to fight off the paparazzi, Denise Richards would be sure to take one of the top spots.

New Personal Archive product comes from the off-site email management and security provider Postini. The new service is targeted for the corporate market, and will allow users to store all email and instant messaging communications permanently.

According to the United Nations, Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans per capita in the world due to the AIDS/HIV pandemic that has swept this Southern African country

Java is the most used programming language used on the Web. Sun, developers of Java, are now working on improvements in order to make the language more user friendly. Sun is enhancing its Java System Portal Server with a new release to make it easier to build collaborative content and communities.

An LCD plant is going to receive a $2 billion expansion from Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co. Both Japanese and South Korean companies are looking for a larger share of the flat-screen market.

Joel Schumacher, after eight years of filming a Batman movie, has brought the famous Bruce Wayne back to the silver screen. `Batman Begins`, a prequel created by writer-director Christopher Nolan (`Memento`) and his co-writer, David S. Goyer (`Dark City`), shows a different take from the past Batman films.