In a speech at the 2006 Microsoft business forum held in Moscow Microsoft founder and Philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the world wide lack of qualified IT workers and called out for the more developed countries to make more of an effort in teaching IT skills to students.

Stephen Colbert, entertainment icon and comedian, recently exchanged his pompous television persona for a carefree, fun-loving one Friday night

A new online discussion group, Women Writers of Western America enables women to come together with a common interest, writing about the multi-cultural American West.

In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, hundreds of young men pushed past security guards and made their way into the heart of the main enclave for foreign embassies. Again, part of protests against the perception the West and indeed much of the world has of Muslims as overly violent.

Western Washington and Central Washington universities will begin establishing some new football rivalries in 2006.Both have been admitted as football-only members to the North Central Conference, one of the nation"s most prestigious NCAA Division II alignments.

Western Sahara became a source of contention in the mid-1970s, when Spain officially ceded sovereignty of the territory, and the Polisario Front sought to secure the land as an independent state for the Saharawi people.

Safety Invention of the Year-1998, is worn in the current issue of Forbes Magazine, The 400 Richest People in America. The Western Outlaw cowboy style hard hat is prominently featured on page 243.

With Sue Bird`s wings clipped by a broken nose, chalk this one up for the bench bunch.

Just another typical football thriller between Western Washington University and Central Washington University.

It is homecoming weekend for more than two dozen Eastside and South County high school football players.