FERRIDAY — The fire chief and a police officer collided in their town-owned vehicles Friday night, sending both men to the hospital and closing the highway for 45 minutes.

If XM and Sirius merged, the new company could reduce programming costs by pruning redundant channels and redundant employees.

Should the United States pull out of Iraq, or increase the number of troops on the ground? Should you break up with that person you've been dating for eight years -- or propose marriage? Should you sell that old house, or hold on to it?

A weekend car bombing in Madrid shattered a nine-month-old cease-fire with Basque separatists and left Spain's prime minister groping for a way to salvage the nascent peace process.

In February, Turbolinux will release a new product, Wizpy, a Linux-embedded, portable USB bootable device with digital audio capability. The product will

As new portable devices emerge, the attention shifts to wireless connectivity, storage, audio and portable-related technologies as well as power consumption and interference hurdles.

Although there is still a lot of work to be done in mainland China's R&D sector, there has been remarkable progress especially in the communication and consumer electronics front.

Last year, the trend in the electronic industry was integration. This year, Taiwan focuses on communication and consumer electronics.

Prospects are bright for Korea's electronics industry in 2007.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The fighting between Hamas and Fatah militants hasn't played out just in the streets of the Gaza Strip. The rivals also pummelled each other over the airwaves with such epithets as "mercenary death squads," "child killers" and "Zionists."