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12/22/2005
Free access archiveWitness Testifies on Hussein-Era Torture
The trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity on Wednesday heard some of the strongest evidence yet linking the former Iraqi president and his co-defendants to alleged torture.
Google Earth Images Irk Nations
When Google introduced Google Earth, free software that marries satellite and aerial images with mapping capabilities, the company emphasized its usefulness as a teaching and navigation tool, while advertising the pure entertainment value of high-resolution flyover images of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the pyramids.
Toxic Spill Threatens Southern China
A toxic waste spill from a zinc smelter, the second environmental disaster to hit China in weeks, halted water supplies from a southern river for eight hours and threatened cities downstream, state media said on Wednesday.
Iranian's Oratory Looks Back to 1979
The morning after the ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was elected president in June, he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the father of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an act that appears to have foreshadowed exactly how the president-elect planned to lead his country.
EU Tries to Revive Iran Talks
Iranian and European negotiators sought to revive dialogue on Tehran's atomic ambitions Wednesday, but Iran again insisted on enriching uranium domestically despite concerns it could make nuclear arms.
German Banker Back in Court
Judges on Wednesday ordered a retrial of Germany's most prominent banker and five others over large payments to executives during Vodafone's takeover of rival Mannesmann in 2000.
AOL Snubs Microsoft in $1Bln Google Deal
America Online agreed to sell a 5 percent stake to Google in a $1 billion deal that deepens the ties binding two of the web's most popular sites while thwarting Microsoft's efforts to grab a larger piece of the booming Internet advertising market.
Lenovo Appoints Rival to Top Post
Lenovo, the world's third-biggest personal computer maker, named Dell's William Amelio as chief executive officer, replacing Stephen Ward.
- Utility Defaults on $17Bln Debt
- Kerkorian Ditches Loss-Making GM Shares
- Sailing to Success as Fixer for the Super-Rich
- Appointments
- Alarming Words From Tehran Need Answers
- A White Christmas Dreamed for All
- Critical Test for Turkey's New Identity
- A Parallel March in a Parallel World
- A Good No-Go for WTO
- Business in Brief
- 'Ring Fence' to Be Lifted Next Week
- Study: $22Bln Spent on Cars in '05
- Demographic Crisis May Cost $400Bln
- Sofia Sets Deadline for UES
- Trutnev: Laws of Economics Should Govern Extraction
- Surkov Lumps Oligarchs With Nationalists
- Moscow, Nearby Regions Buried in Heavy Snowfall
- Housing Protesters Block Ryazansky Prospekt
- Illarionov Lambastes New Face of State
- News in Brief
- Court Backs Putin's Right to Pick Governors
- Cherkesov Lauds Anti-Drug Efforts
- Chechen Schools Close, 70 Ill
- Water Cut to 10,000 Residents in Khabarovsk
- Villagers See a Chinese Conspiracy
- Amended NGO Bill Quickly Approved
- A 'Bah, Humbug' From Atheists
