University of Florida (UF) men's basketball coach, Billy Donovan, says signing a new, expensive contract extension to stay with the school would send the wrong message to his team about why he will remain with the college. Coach Donovan explains, "There's a part of me that doesn't feel right when...

SanDisk is attempting to compete with Apple's iPod by unveiling its 8-gigabyte Sansa e280 MP3 player. The flash-based music player has a microSD expansion slot which can store up to 10-gigabytes of music, or 2,500 songs, with an optional 2 GB microSD card....

Reuters - Two stand-up comics accused of making light of the Holocaust at the Edinburgh Fringe festival hit back at their critics on Tuesday, igniting a debate about where, if anywhere, to draw the line in comedy.

Playbill - Annie Golden and Eartha Kitt will star in a new mounting of the musical Mimi Le Duck, the latest product of the New York International Fringe Festival to graduate to a commerical production.

Reuters - Attention Elvis impersonators: you may soon have a new way to make a living.

and now it's been adapted for the stage. REUTERS/Phil McCarten" border="0" /> Reuters - At a kids' summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, a bunch of self-described "theater geeks" are singing their hearts out rehearsing a show that will appeal to more than just their parents.

Reuters - The quality of Martin Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at the same time slyly mocking his need for it.

AP - Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial insisted on Tuesday that Iraq's military was attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed.

AP - More than 500 Iraqi men have joined the police in restive Anbar province — a focal point of the Sunni Arab insurgency — in the most successful recruiting drive by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried to defuse growing public anger Monday over his handling of the war against Hezbollah, promising to rebuild rocket-scarred border areas but rejecting peace talks with Syria, a key supporter of the Lebanese guerrillas.

AP - An Iraqi investigative panel has launched an independent probe into the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl allegedly by American soldiers currently in U.S. custody, who will be tried in absentia if necessary, an official said Tuesday.

AFP - Egypt's national rail chief has been sacked over a train crash that left 58 people dead, officials said, as the press lashed out at the government over the latest transport disaster.

TechWeb - Apparently, Microsoft wants to help Mozilla if it's interested in making sure the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run under Windows Vista.

Reuters - Software provider Salesforce.com Inc. said on Tuesday that it has acquired start-up Kieden Corp., which helps customers track sales leads generated with online advertisements on Google Inc..

InfoWorld - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used a dinner presentation to Boston-area customers, analysts and members of the press Monday evening to announce a new search marketing service that will allow companies to manage Google AdWords marketing campaigns directly from Salesforce's CRM software.

AFP - SanDisk Corporation introduced the world's highest-capacity MP3 player and priced it to take a bigger bite of the market dominated by Apple's iPod.

Reuters - SanDisk Corp. on Monday introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Reuters - The U.S. government will not require recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.

Reuters - Twenty-five years after John McEnroe told an umpire "You cannot be serious," a technology making its grand-slam debut next week aims to make line disputes a thing of the past.

AP - The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world's biggest telecoms market, has grown to more than 431 million, a government news agency reported Tuesday.