TechBrief: Laptops help lift PC shipments International Herald Tribune - (Web promotion) 2

TechBrief: Laptops help lift PC shipments International Herald Tribune - (Web promotion) 2

TechBrief: Laptops help lift PC shipments
International Herald Tribune - 2 hours ago Worldwide shipments of personal computers rose more than 17 percent in the third quarter as consumers flocked to laptop PCs and lower-cost models, according to two technology research firms. Shipments grew

Miers Backed Ban on Most Abortions in '89
Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago By JESSE J. HOLLAND. WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers pledged unflagging opposition to abortion as a candidate for the Dallas City council in 1989, according to documents released Tuesday.

Posh & Becks: Happy or Rocky?
E! Online - 5 hours ago by Gina Serpe. Lawyers for David and Victoria Beckham appeared in London court Monday for a pretrial hearing on a libel complaint filed against a last year over a British tabloid article questioning the legitimacy of their marriage.

UPDATE 5-Strengthening Hurricane Wilma threatens Florida
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Jane Sutton. MIAMI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Hurricane Wilma drenched the Caribbean coast of Honduras on Tuesday and strengthened rapidly as the season's record-tying 21st storm headed toward the Gulf of Mexico on a path for storm-weary Florida.

School defends intelligent design
BBC News - 9 hours ago A school board being sued in a US court for questioning the theory of evolution has begun presenting its case. Pennsylvania's Dover Area school board requires science teachers to say that evolution is unproven

Time Line: Saddam's Road to Trial
NPR (audio) - 25 minutes ago Saddam Hussein visits the clay home in which he was born in near Tikrit. His daugther Raghad, fourth from left, is now directing his team of defense lawyers. This undated photo was taken by an official regime photographer. Corbis.

WRAPUP 1-Post-quake diplomacy lifts hope in grieving Kashmir
Reuters AlertNet - 1 hour ago Doctors stitch head injuries of Abdul Mir, 8, an Indian Kashmiri boy, at a hospital in Tangdaar town near Line of Control (LoC) in Indian administered Kashmir October 18, 2005. Mir was injured in the South Asia earthquake on October 8.