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America Online has filed five federal lawsuits targeting spammers it accuses of sending some 1-billion junk e-mail messages promoting mortgages, steroids and pornography to its subscribers.

A landmark case that began when Texas police broke into a gay man’s apartment in 1998 goes before the US Supreme Court next week, seeking the repeal of state laws against sodomy and oral sex.

Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.

Chess legend Garry Kasparov and supercomputer Deep Junior played to a draw on Sunday, leaving their Man vs. Machine series tied 2-2 after four games.

The most serious attack on the internet in more than a year stranded millions of online and phone users and knocked out bank machines across the United States on Saturday, in what security experts feared was just a prelude to a bigger cyber-assault.

Unless decisions are taken to fund humanitarian programmes, 12-million — or 20% — of southern Africa’s 60-million people may die prematurely of Aids, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.

You may have recently discovered priceless photographs of your childhood, yellowing but still tangible. Your grandkids probably won’t fare as well with your digital photos.

Four men serving life sentences for conspiring to bomb two US embassies in Africa are seeking a new trial because, their lawyer alleges, jurors acted improperly and saw them shackled during their 2001 trial.

Armed groups involved in conflict in countries from the Philippines and Afghanistan to the Congo have been using youths under 18 as soldiers despite international calls to stop the practice, the United Nations said on Monday.

President George Bush has given the CIA permission to kill about two dozen top terrorism suspects around the world whom it believes are plotting to attack American interests.

David Hilliard’s career as an enemy of the state is only a memory now. The former chief of staff of the Black Panthers, the United States’s first armed black revolutionary group, does not disown the violence of the days when the FBI labelled him a threat to national security.

The United States Justice Department has opened an investigation into accounting practices at AOL Time Warner, delivering another blow to the world’s largest media company.

In the waves of Roman Catholic sex scandals over recent years, a dozen bishops worldwide have been publicly accused of misconduct.

As the first anniversary of the September 11 tragedy approaches, plans for the World Trade Center site are in disarray, tainted by criticism that they’re boring and small-minded.

President Bush yesterday continued to assemble the team he hopes will get the US economy back on track with the nomination of William Donaldson as chairman of the securities and exchange commission.

The bronze miniature of French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s most famous sculpture, ”The Thinker,” which was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Towers, has disappeared, officials said on Monday.

Fears of war and a spiraling confidence crisis in Corporate America pummelled the broad stock market to an 8-month low on Thursday.

Evidence against men tried in the bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 shows that al-Qaeda has made eastern Africa an important base.

Leaders of nine African nations and scores of high-ranking world diplomats will meet next week to discuss the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an ambitious plan created by Africans to advance economic development.

New York police have arrested a Catholic missionary priest from Kenya on charges of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy.

An analysis of communication from the World Trade Center after the twin towers were attacked on September 11 shows that most of those who died were on the upper floors of the towers.

In a stock market darkened by a troubled economy and accounting scandals, one investment still shines: gold shares.

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It’s an unlikely African art market: a Manhattan storage depot; but over 15 years dozens of art dealers have transformed these dusty steel cages into the home of a thriving daily art fair.

Ten days after the end of recovery operations at the site of the World Trade Center, construction workers are still finding the remains of September 11 victims in buildings adjacent to Ground Zero.

Children as young as 11 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, where they are coerced into human rights abuses including mass executions, an in-depth report showed on Tuesday.