In a suspicious continuation of the string of apartment fires striking the French capital region, a building housing African immigrants went up in smoke early Sunday morning.

Microsoft was hoping for a big bang when releasing their portable audio player, the Zune, however with lackluster customer interest, the software giant is tuning down expectations

Advanced Micro Devices, the world`s second-largest producer of processors for PCs and servers, is planning to launch its dual-core Opteron server chip line with a lower power-per-watt configurations.

Most of the village`s 1,200 residents had fled to the hills to escape the tsunami which resulted from the massive earthquake. According to local news reports, the quake, which rocked several islands in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku, also damaged hundreds of homes in five other villages on Buru Island.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday that his country would be willing to help its enemy, the US, leave Iraq, saying: "Iran is ready to help the administration to withdraw its troops from Iraq."

Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers have invested in many pioneering tech firms such as Netscape Communications Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., and other. Now John Doerr is looking into a new emerging sector that he calls "green technology."

An Australian drug smuggler`s body was released after receiving a guilty verdict and being executed by Singapore officials. His body was released to be flown home Saturday.

Although the U.S national soccer team is not one of the favorites of winning the upcoming World Cup in Germany next month, there is another World Cup coming where the U.S national team is expected to show great performance.

Egyptian authorities, in a reversal of their earlier assessment, say recent car bomb attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, though nine months apart, were the work of a single organization with roots in Sinai and in extremist Islamic ideology.

Puppies are popping up everywhere amid the rubble left by Hurricane Katrina. Officials say more than 6,000 pets were saved in the region after Katrina came ashore August 29, 2005.

Two holes in `Madonna` and a damaged corner on `The Scream` were all that was detected following the retrieval of the works stolen from the Munch Museum.

The fiasco that took place during World Cup`s final match in Berlin on June 9 will not be forgotten soon. Zinedine Zidane`s unbelievable behavior and the view of him head-butting Italy`s defender, Marco Materazzi, are images that no soccer fan will forget soon.

U.S. President George W. Bush is encouraging Sudan to live up to its pledge to allow United Nations peacekeepers into the troubled western Darfur region. President Bush called Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who he has previously accused of aiding genocide in Darfur.

1&1 Internet, the world`s largest Web-hosting provider by known servers, is continuing to offer some of the most competitive pricing in the U.S.

Its summer time and that means that like most people, you are taking a break from your job or business, and spending some much needed vacation days with your family. As you must know already, unless your business covers your vacation expenses, taking you and your entire family somewhere magical is far from affordable.