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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott expanded his lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Wednesday, alleging that a second form of anti-piracy technology used by the label violates the state’s spyware and deceptive trade practices laws.

Police and fire crews were called to a British Energy nuclear power station in Scotland after workers reported “anomalous behaviour” as they disposed of spent fuel rods, a company spokesman said on Friday.

A hoard of Bronze Age artefacts which had been discovered in a garden has been declared treasure trove.

The niece of Osama Bin Laden has posed for provocative photographs for an American magazine. Wafah Dufour, an aspiring musician and model, is the daughter of the al-Qaeda leader’s half-brother Yeslam.

A green tea extract may help patients with a form of leukaemia, a study says. The tea, discovered in China nearly 5,000 years ago, has long been thought to have health benefits.

Ford Motor Co. has injected another £1.2 billion ($2.1 billion) into Jaguar Cars to cover heavy losses and investment writedowns at its British luxury car subsidiary, the company said on Friday.

Jurors in Oakland, Calif., Thursday awarded $172 million to thousands of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees after deciding that the world’s largest retailer violated state law by denying lunch breaks, a court spokesman said.

Palestinian terror planners are now sending their Qassam missiles after big game: the important port-town of Ashkelon, which lies ten kilometers from the northern tip of the Gaza Strip, where the ruins of the evacuated Israeli locations of Dugit, Elei Sinai and Nisanit have been turned into handy launching sites.

A Californian law that made it illegal to sell or rent violent or sexually explicit games to children has been blocked by a US federal judge.

The socialist president-elect of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has met the outgoing President, Eduardo Rodriguez, to plan the transition of power.