Hurricane Rita's wind and rain breached two of New Orleans' battered levees today and sent water gushing into already-devastated neighbourhoods just days after they had been pumped dry.

With U.S. mobile phone users like Balecha already spending hundreds of millions a year on ringtones, wireless carriers and the music industry are banking on taking music lovers to the next step: using the phone as a portable music player.

An article posted earlier today accidentally referred to Saishuu Heiki Kanojo as "Kare Kano" instead of Saikano. Kare Kano is actually short for "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou" a completely unrelated series. ANN apologises for any confusion that may have been

Editors who used WEA-KATRINA-CRUISESHIP:WA (Garcia), which moved Sunday, are asked to run the following: An article about a cruise ship being used to house Hurricane Katrina evacuees gave an incorrect figure for the ship's weight.

We didn't keep exact count, but the press releases were flowing into our offices at about a five-a-day clip in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, all chronicling in painstaking detail the speed with which operators were restoring coverage. The FCC

Sep. 22--Less than two weeks before he officially takes over the reins as CEO of The Walt Disney Co., Bob Iger said the Burbank-based conglomerate will be dramatically scaling down the output from its Miramax Films division now that founders

Paul Guyardo has been named executive vice president and chief marketing officer of DirecTV effective Oct. 17, the company announced Sept. 22. Guyardo will be responsible for all aspects of marketing, including branding, customer acquisition and retention marketing, direct sales,

Year: 1962 Condition: VG Price: $4.50 Note: The B side label has a sticker, and its audio is degraded by some kind of abrasion on the vinyl.

Year: 1963 Condition: VG Price: $3.50

Year: 1963 Condition: VG Price: $7.00 Sounds better than it looks.

Year: 1962 Condition: VG Price: $2.00

VR-Zone confirms ATI's Radeon X1800XL will feature a single slot cooling solution and posted two photos.

ASHEVILLE) - A year ago, flooding rains from the remnants of tropical storms hurt the fall tourist season in North Carolina's mountains, where visitors come

Mike Easley has reappointed two members to the North Carolina State University Board of Trustees. D. McQueen Campbell III of Raleigh and Bob Mattocks of New

North Carolina posted 10 mass layoffs in August 2005, one more than the same month a year ago, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (mobinil) has signed a partnership agreement with Egypt's first Virgin Megastore, the local branch of a worldwide records, games and electronics superstore that is one of the largest on the planet.

Soldiers Say Failures by Command Led to Abuse U.S. Army troops subjected Iraqi detainees to severe beatings and other torture at a base in central Iraq from 2003 through 2004, often under orders or with the approval of superior officers,

ANDREA Catherwood, the ITV news presenter, left hospital with her twin baby sons yesterday just weeks after doctors performed the emergency Caesarean operation that may have saved their lives.

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