China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.

CHARLESTON-Officials from the Ralph Johnson VA Hospital say over 1 thousand vets packed Mcalister Fieldhouse Friday for a free Aaron Tippin concert

On Wall Street, massaging the balance sheet is a time-honored practice. But did Lehman Brothers Holding Inc cross a line in the routine manipulation of its balance sheet, as described by an independent examiner?

AP - Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

A high-profile report on Lehman Brothers raises fresh questions about whether senior executives at the failed Wall Street investment bank presented a misleading picture of its financial health and whether government regulators did enough to prevent the firm's sudden collapse.

Apple's iTunes software has helped the company sell millions of songs, applications and video clips. Most people use it on their computers, but what do you do when you want new music on the go?

Environment America (EA) released a report titled “Building a Solar Future” this week stating that the US should aim to obtain 10% or more of its total energy consumption from the sun by 2030. Environment America found that “a comprehensive suite of public policy strategies can remove many of the common barriers to solar energy development and help to make this vision a reality.” And if you look at where the US sits compared to other nations on solar energy and solar technology, you can see that it really needs to put these policies into practice. (more…)

AP - The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans will be the focus of a two week United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of Qatar.

California has taken strong action to promote or require renewable energy. It is the national leader on this front. Currently, it’s renewable energy standard is 33% by 2020. However, with the passage of new legislation in Colorado, Colorado is now nipping close at its heels. (more…)

Reuters - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

AFP - The fate of bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears will be topping the agenda on Saturday as the top UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered species gathers for a summit in Doha.

Everything you need to know about who makes up the blogosphere, what and why they are blogging, and how much time is being spent doing so.

AP - DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.

AP - THE DISPUTE: Cable TV providers challenged a five-year extension of federal regulations requiring them to make channels they own available to rivals such as satellite TV.

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