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Reuters - Duke University will again give Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod digital music players to students for use in its courses this fall, broadening their use from just freshmen to all class levels...

Reuters - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said on Sunday seven suicide bombers spearheaded its brazen overnight raid on Abu Ghraib prison that wounded 44 U.S. soldiers, according to an Internet statement...

Reuters - Syria has promised to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon by April 30 and will let a United Nations team verify the pullout, a U.N. envoy said Sunday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050403/ts_nm/lebanon_syria_dc

Reuters - Iraqi politicians elected a Sunni Arab to be the speaker of parliament Sunday, ending a political impasse and taking a decisive step toward forming a government nine weeks after historic elections...

Reuters - Mahmoud Abbas accepted the resignation of a top security chief on Saturday and ordered hundreds of Palestinian officers to retire in a bid to reform his forces and halt growing chaos, an official said...

Reuters - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party scored an overwhelming win in a disputed parliamentary election on Saturday, seizing the two-thirds majority it needs to ram through constitutional changes at will...

A Canadian radio station was formally reprimanded Wednesday after one of its presenters insulted immigrants to Canada and then said the Sikhs of northern India were "a gang of bozos."...

Reuters - An Australian navy helicopter crashed off the quake-hit Indonesian island of Nias Saturday, with Australian media saying nine people on board were killed...

Reuters - The world's two largest PC makers said on Friday that they expect mostly to sell machines with full version of Windows in Europe despite a European antitrust order forcing Microsoft Corp. to offer a stripped-down version of its flagship operating system...

Reuters - A former employee of Microsoft Corp. was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $5 million in restitution for selling the world's largest software maker's products for personal gain, federal prosecutors said...

Reuters - Iraq's parliament erupted in acrimony at only its second sitting on Tuesday and journalists were thrown out after legislators berated leaders for failing to agree on a new government, two months after elections...

Reuters - Supreme Court justices questioned on Tuesday whether the recording industry's attempts to shut down online file-sharing networks would deter inventors from developing new products like Apple's iPod music player...

Reuters - President Bush predicted on Tuesday Iraq's parliament will choose a new government soon, despite chaos that erupted between Iraqi lawmakers trying to reach agreement in Baghdad in only their second meeting...

Reuters - Microsoft has agreed to implement all the "main changes" to its new stripped-down version of Windows requested by the European Commission, the software giant said on Tuesday...

Reuters - Dell Inc. , the world's largest personal computer maker, on Wednesday introduced two low-priced server computers as it seeks to convince wary customers that networks of PC-style machines can handle tasks generally reserved for much bigger ones...

Reuters - U.S. stocks edged up on Monday, gaining ground after 3 weeks of losses, as a drop in crude oil eased concern that high energy prices will cut into profits and a 2.5 percent gain in insurer American International Group Inc. propped up the Dow...

Reuters - Two astronauts finished their spacewalk ahead of schedule on Monday and installed equipment to enable the first European cargo craft to dock at the International Space Station, mission control said...

Reuters - To the disappointment and concern of the faithful, the ailing Pope John Paul failed to appear at his window on Easter Monday but there was no indication that the Pontiff's health had worsened...

Reuters - A bombing in a Christian suburb of east Beirut overshadowed Easter celebrations on Sunday and raised fresh fears of a slide back into Lebanon's violent past. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050328/ts_nm/lebanon_dc

Reuters - As discount "family plans" become the top growth area for U.S. cell phone service providers, investors should keep a sharp eye on customer cancellation rates in coming years, according to industry watchers...