If you’re an e-mail user, you probably don’t want to end up like Katherine Brand, who spent years developing a client base only to lose business because of an e-mail address shuffle.
The United States has scuttled a bid by Libya to secure a non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council for a two-year term starting next year, a senior administration official said on Friday.
In a stunning role reversal, two African presidents demanded on Friday that the United States apply its free trade preaching to itself — by lifting generous state subsidies paid to southern cotton farmers.
President George W Bush’s trip to Africa this week signalled a recent strategic decision to increase the United States’ military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
Liberia is a sea of suffering, its capital awash with hungry, homeless refugees, victims of civil strife. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and other administration officials ponder whether to send American troops in to stabilise the situation.
Americans may not know it, but most eat genetically modified food daily. And two Midwestern scientists — one an unassuming gardener, the other a no-nonsense executive — are largely responsible.
President Bush’s trip to Africa this week signals a recent strategic decision to increase America’s military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
The US government and private technology experts warned that hackers plan to attack thousands of websites on Sunday in a loosely coordinated ”contest” that could disrupt internet traffic.
US President George Bush has demanded that Liberian President Charles Taylor leave the war-ravaged west African nation, as he neared a decision on sending US peacekeeping troops there.
Of the first 42 American presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are the only ones to make extended visits to Africa. On Monday, it will be George Bush’s turn.
The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law forcing libraries to use internet porn filters, dismissing arguments that the law violated the rights of cyber surfers when they blocked legitimate websites by mistake.
US forces in Iraq have captured Saddam Hussein’s residential secretary, Abdel Hamid Mahmoud, the fourth most wanted official of the former regime, a US defence official said on Wednesday.
The United States and several African nations are busy looking for a Boeing 727 passenger jet stolen in Angola last month, fearing it could fall into terrorist hands, The Washington Post said on Wednesday.
The United States on Tuesday welcomed a truce to end four years of war in Liberia and form a transitional government without President Charles Taylor.
Microsoft said on Tuesday it filed 15 lawsuits against so-called ”spammers” in the US and Britain accused of flooding the company’s internet customers with more than two billion unsolicited e-mails.
The World Health Organisation’s long-held position that dirty needles cause 2,5% of African HIV exposures is too conservative, says a leading researcher at the United Nation’s agency.
A US federal appeals court rejected a request by Verizon Communications Incorporated to delay turning over the names of four of its internet subscribers suspected of illegally offering free music for downloading.
The United States’s Central Intelligence Agency’s, Director George Tenet warned last fall that if the United States attacked Iraq, President Saddam Hussein might hand off his forbidden weapons to Islamic terrorists for a counterattack.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell met in Washington on Tuesday with a controversial Roman Catholic archbishop from Zimbabwe to thank him for his outspoken opposition to the practices of President Robert Mugabe’s government.
Foreigners can soon expect to be electronically photographed and fingerprinted when entering the United States, under a high-tech new border security system, a top US official said on Monday.
Brian Martin, a computer consultant in Maryland, is careful when he handles the plastic discs in his DVD library of more than 200 movies. But accidents — and scratches — still happen.
One form of the virus that causes Aids made the jump from animals to people by 1940, a new analysis indicates. HIV-2 didn’t spread across West Africa until the 1960s, perhaps spurred by a war in Guinea-Bissau, where researchers say it originated.
Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200-million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves — an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from US regulators.
The Republican Party has scheduled its 2004 convention unusually late in the year, so that the climactic moment when President George W Bush’s re-election campaign begins will nearly coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 attack.
US forces in Iraq have taken custody of Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and the most visible Iraqi leader other than Saddam Hussein.
It could only happen with a United States invasion. Poised behind the troops, waiting for a signal that Iraq is safe enough for them to operate in, are the evangelical Christians — carrying food in one hand and the Bible in the other.
It was one of the main reasons cited for the war: to find and destroy abundant anthrax, mustard gas and the like that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was said to have stashed, as well as missiles he might use to deliver deadly packages to his neighbours.
The United States is urging Zimbabwe’s neighbours to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to hand power to a transitional government to pave the way for new elections, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
Global financial leaders papered over differences on rebuilding Iraq at their weekend meetings and pledged to attack sluggish economic growth rates in their countries and poverty worldwide.
World powers can find the money for war on Iraq in an instant but they are stuck when it comes to the poor, activists charged Sunday after global financial talks here.
Scientists who three years ago said they had virtually completed a map of the human genetic code now report progress in understanding the last few pieces of one of the world’s most complex puzzles.