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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle illegally over the weekend when he collided with a car in his Brentwood neighborhood, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday.

Scientists say they have found a way to use embryonic stem cells to correct the mutation that causes sickle cell disease in mice.

Kyocera Corporation and Nokia have entered into a patent license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Kyocera is licensed under Nokia’s essential patents, and some additional patents, relating to CDMA, PHS and PDC standards. Kyocera will pay royalties to Nokia for all Kyocera CDMA mobile phone and module products.

4Flix.Net has announced a new video download service that delivers hundreds of feature-length movies, TV shows, independent films and other video content over the Internet for playback on Macintosh, Windows, and the video iPod without cumbersome Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.

Wireless Internet access should be installed in parts of the Houses of Parliament to give its members access to information on the move.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources report that Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal arrived in Damascus first thing Sunday morning Jan 8 with an royal order for President Bashar Assad to present himself without delay to King Abdullah in Jeddah. The Saudis were racing against time to put Assad on the carpet before the onset of the hajj later that day. From Jeddah, the Syrian president flew to Sharm el-Sheikh where he was severely rapped by Hosni Mubarak.

At least 20 suspects have been arrested in an ongoing operation and more detentions are expected by Spanish interior minister Jose Atonio Alonso. They were detained in Madrid, Vilanova y la Geltru near Barcelona and Tolosa in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa.

HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks, has drawn up contingency plans to cope with the absence of up to half of its 253,000 staff in a bird flu pandemic, as fears grow of the virus spreading westward …

Experts have cast doubt on the value of a widely used test for prostate cancer. US researchers found the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test did not improve survival rates.

At least 114 grenades have been found by the Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar in northern India, police say.