AFP - Bobby Charlton has urged world football governing body FIFA to tackle the problem of players hounding referees.

AP - When student demonstrators in France wear trash bags to protests, their message is: "We're not disposable." They're angry about a new government job plan that will allow employers to fire them more easily.

New York workers have discovered a trove of Cold War-era supplies within the masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge, a cache meant to aid in survival efforts in the event of nuclear attack.

Again demonstrating innovation and creative customer support Litigation Services and Technologies has added SMS text messaging to its online deposition calendar system. The new addition saves attorneys wasted trips by sending text message notifications when depositions are cancelled. [PRWEB Mar 20, 2006]

AP - Audiences were in a rebellious mood, lifting the action tale "V for Vendetta" to the top spot at the weekend box office with a $26.1 million debut.

AP - Audiences were in a rebellious mood, lifting the action tale "V for Vendetta" to the top spot at the weekend box office with a $26.1 million debut.

Reuters - Some call it sport, some call it fun, others swear by its health benefits, rattling off a list that would make a snake-oil salesman blush.

AP - Fearing another dam break like the one that killed as many as seven people earlier this week on Kauai, state officials invoked emergency authority Thursday to enter private property and inspect earthen dams across the state.

AFP - The South Korean government banned disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk and his team from conducting stem cell research following a scandal over faked results.

As crews look for seven people missing after the dam collapse in Kilauea, Hawaii, fears are rising that other dams throughout the state are also vulnerable.

AFP - Six soldiers killed by an Iraqi mob in one of the British army's bloodiest episodes of recent times could not call for help because of a lack of satellite radios, an inquest heard.

AP - Jameer Nelson scored 25 points, four in overtime, and added nine assists as the Orlando Magic beat the Utah Jazz 114-108 Wednesday night.

AP - Hitachi is working on an R2D2-like security robot on wheels that can map out its surroundings using infrared sensors and a camera to detect missing items, suspicious packages and intruders.

AFP - A coroner's inquest began hearing graphic details about how six Royal Military Police soldiers were killed by an Iraqi mob in one of the British army's bloodiest episodes of recent times.

AFP - South Korea's golf and politics scandal has claimed a second victim as the vice education minister resigned after less than three months on the job.

AP - Dwyane Wade scored 19 of his 25 points in the first quarter as Miami built a huge early lead and rolled past the Utah Jazz 121-83 on Tuesday night, the Heat's 12th win in 13 games.

Reuters - Some call it sport, some call it fun, others swear by its health benefits, rattling off a list that would make a snake-oil salesman blush.

AFP - Key wage talks in the German engineering and metalworking sectors stalled on Tuesday, with the powerful IG Metall labour union threatening warning strikes across the country by the end of the month if a deal is not reached soon.

AP - Slobodan Milosevic leaves a legacy as "one of the most malign forces in Europe in quite a long time," even though he died before the end of his four-year U.N. war crimes trial, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

Reuters - The Bush administration on Monday said it was preparing to release prewar Iraqi government material from a trove of documents and tape-recordings captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.