At least 8 killed as U.S. troops open fire on Afghan highway
The victims were caught in a crossfire after a suicide bombing, U.S. officials asserted.

New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers
Banking analysts suggest that these operations — with few employees and no costly real estate — could force changes to established banks.

U.S. troops push into Sadr City
It was the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad. Left, an Iraqi army soldier searching a driver at a vehicle checkpoint in Baghdad on Sunday.
- Brutal boundaries divide Baghdad

Officials support High Court ruling to block BBC report
Senior government officials rallied Sunday to support the ruling that has blocked the BBC to transmit news on an alleged campaign finance scandal.

Envoys meet to get trade talks going
Ministers from world trade powers tried Sunday to advance stalled talks for a delayed deal to increase global commerce and ease poverty.

Saudi king meets with Iranian president
Both say they are committed to halting sectarian strife in Middle East.
- The president of Iran will visit Saudi Arabia for summit

Religious surge in China surprises leaders
New survey shows rapid increase in number of believers.

Police and protesters clash in St. Petersburg
More than 100 arrested after anti-government rally.

New tool unlocking more oil from old fields
Dire forecasts about the world's reserves drying up have given way to predictions that more oil can be found than ever before.

While Australia burns
Australia's soaring heat, vanishing water and rampant fires are connected to larger global patterns of climate change.

Losing Bangladesh, by degrees
Losing Bangladesh, by degrees, on the waves of our warming world.

Memories of a colder Iceland
The glacier Snaefellsjokull is supposed to be one of the seven sources of spiritual energy in the world. The glacier is melting like others of its kind in Iceland.

Media titans clash and audiences lose
If Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson were in opposite corners in the same ring, which fighter would you bet on?

FastWeb founder turns his attention to Internet television and video-on-demand
In seven and a half years, Silvio Scaglia transformed FastWeb from a start-up with a plan to bring fiber-optic cables into houses from Milan to Palermo into a company with €1.3 billion in annual sales and 1.1 million clients.

On Advertising: BBC creeping toward commercialism
With its agreement with You-Tube, the BBC is moving away from its position as a publicly funded broadcaster.

Sober EuroNews arrives at a raucous party
In the midst of a raucous, 24 news cycle interspersed with Anna Nicole Smith funeral updates, now seems an unlikely time for a pan-European television newscaster, EuroNews, to expand in the American market with a sober, anti-conformist style best summed up by "no."