VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its disputed nuclear program. ( AP)
The United States has alleged that Iran has enough uranium gas to make 10 nuclear weapons and has called for new inspections in the Islamic Republic, a diplomat in Vienna told AFP Wednesday.(DRUDGE REPORT)
The Palestinian Authority's ruling Hamas terror group has launched a web site for children, preaching the moral desirability of being a suicide terrorist through cartoons and children's stories.(Arutz Sheva)
THE lethal strain of bird flu poses a greater challenge to the world than any infectious disease, including AIDS, and has cost 300 million farmers over $10 billion in its spread through poultry around the world, the World Health Organisation said yesterday. (Irish Examiner)
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Google Inc. inadvertently published outdated revenue and profit projections on its Web site after last week's meeting with Wall Street analysts, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. But it stood by its refusal to issue financial projections.
GOOGLE, the internet giant, is planning a massive online facility that could store copies of users' hard drives - a move set to spark alarm among civil liberties campaigners. (Scotsman.com)
Berkshire Hathaway, the investment group run by Warren Buffett, is pushing up the price of hurricane insurance as a precaution against the possible impact of climate change. Mr Buffett said it remained an open question whether "atmospheric, oceanic or other causal factors have dramatically changed the frequency or intensity of hurricanes" but after the worst quarterly losses in industry history it was prudent to limit exposure. (By Dan Roberts in New York, FT.Com)
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) stunned the sports world today by announcing that its annual college basketball tournament, known to its fans as March Madness, will henceforth be known as March Bipolar Disorder. (Borowitz.com)
SHANGHAI, March 7 — By some estimates, there are more than 30,000 people patrolling the Web in China, helping to form one of the world's far-reaching Internet filtering systems. (NYT)
NYSE Goes Public After Two Centuries As Not-For-Profit Exchange NEW YORK (AP) -- Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange will begin buying and selling a new stock on Wednesday: shares of the historic Big Board itself. After nearly 214 years as a not-for-profit exchange, the NYSE has transformed itself into a public company after closing its $10 billion acquisition of electronic rival Archipelago Holdings Inc. on Tuesday.
OPEC President Says Group Will Forgo Production Cut Amid Political Instability VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- OPEC's president confirmed Wednesday that the group will not change its production level amid the political instability and terrorism unnerving global markets
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