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AP - Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.

AP - Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized four U.S. Humvees.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite.

AP - As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China’s northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.

AFP - Britain’s Competition Commission on Wednesday recommended the sale of three airports, two in London and one in Scotland, that are operated by Spanish-owned group BAA, owing to the company’s dominance.

AP - Israel has closed its cargo crossings with the Gaza Strip following a Palestinian rocket attack on southern Israel that violated a truce.

AP - Paraguay’s new president is replacing the nation’s police commander four days into the new administration.

AP - China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists’ names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.

AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge — stiffer personal-computer competition — that threatens to slow its steady growth.

AP - China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists’ names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.

AP - Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slump.

AFP - Ever since the online auction site eBay sprung up 10 years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of Americans has tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal.

AFP - Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday.

Reuters - Apple Inc has issued a
software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection
problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from
customers, a European mobile service provider said on Tuesday
as Credit Suisse reported strong U.S. sales of the device.