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The Palestinian who blew himself up in the Israeli resort of Eilat on Monday was unemployed, despondent over the death of his baby daughter and driven to avenge his best friend’s killing by Israeli troops, relatives said.Dozens of neighbors celebrated outside 20-year-old Mohammed Siksik’s house after the fiery attack that killed him and three other [...]

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Anti-war protesters from across the nation including Jane Fonda rallied in the shadow of the Capitol building in Washington today to demand that Congress block President George W. Bush’s new plan to send more troops to Iraq and withdraw those already there.The demonstration, the first national peace rally since voters gave Democrats a majority in [...]

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Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft.
It’s launch long delayed Microsoft plans an enormous marketing campaign to promote the software as a way to get more out of computers.
    But detractors are rolling their eyes and saying the new Windows is nothing more than a weak imitator of other operating systems. And [...]

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Shares of IBM Corp. fell nearly five per cent Friday even though the computer services giant generated healthy fourth-quarter profits as the company rode cost cuts and software acquisitions to boost its bottom line.IBM’s earnings report, released after the market closed Thursday, showed an 11 per cent gain in net profit, to US$3.54 billion, or [...]

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London - The end of the world brought about by nuclear war is now just five minutes away, according to the latest ‘Doomsday Clock’ time check, announced Wednesday.
Keepers of the clock, set up in 1947 to show how close humanity is to wiping itself out, moved the minute hand two minutes forward from seven towards [...]

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For the second time in less than three months, OPEC is considering calling an emergency meeting to rescue plunging crude oil prices. It’s enough to give oil traders a sense of deja vu, harkening back to October when futures prices swirled amid a flurry of will-they or won’t-they headlines.
Prices swayed in a broad $1.45 range [...]

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President Bush’s “New Way Forward” in Iraq faces two immediate obstacles that are best framed as questions: Will the new Democratic-led Congress go along, and what difference will the latest tactical shift make on the ground?
Bush is betting that a modest increase in American force and money will reverse a spiral toward sectarian anarchy in [...]

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America’s largest city got a scare early Monday when the smell associated with natural gas covered a large swath of Manhattan. Sirens blared, emergency vehicles raced through streets, people poured out of buildings, and some train stations were evacuated.
But nothing dangerous was discovered, and there was no immediate explanation for the odor. New York City [...]

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TV talk host Oprah Winfrey was the target of an alleged extortion plot involving potentially damaging audio tapes, federal officials in Chicago say.
Keifer Bonvillain of Atlanta was charged with illegally taping telephone conversations he had with a Winfrey employee he had met at a party in an effort to extort $1.5 million from the star, [...]

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In Somalia, an alleged message from Osama bin Laden’s deputy urging Somalis to launch an Iraq-style guerrilla war against Ethiopian forces there is being taken seriously by a now mostly-disbanded group of militant Somali youths known as the Shaabab. In an interview with VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in Mogadishu, one former Shaabab member warns that [...]

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Millions of Romanians and Bulgarians revelled in their first day as citizens of the European Union on Monday, after a night of fireworks and street parties celebrating their countries’ entry into the bloc.
Deemed too politically and economically backward for membership during the EU’s first eastward expansion in 2004, the Black Sea neighbours were relieved to [...]

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