Reuters - President Jalal Talabani supports a call by a Shi'ite leader for Iran and the United States to hold talks to resolve their differences over Iraq and ways of stabilizing it, his office said on Sunday.

AP - Possible negotiations between the United States and Iran and the convening of the first session of a new Iraqi parliament could give the Bush administration a long-needed lift.

AP - President Bush is engaging in St. Patrick's Day festivities with Irish leaders while using the occasion to take stock of the stalled peace process in Northern Ireland and look for ways to move it along.

AP - President Bush is imploring China to shed "old ways of thinking and acting," including its lack of candor about details of its military buildup.

Reuters - The White House pressed China on Thursday for further reforms of what it called "discredited" trade policies and criticized its military expansion in a hardening of the U.S. line on the Asia-Pacific power.

AP - South Korea's new point man on North Korea said Thursday the United States is stepping up engagement with Pyongyang even as it cracks down on the North's alleged money laundering and poor human rights record.

AdWeek.com - IBM's new "Innovation That Matters" campaign from Ogilvy & Mather repositions Big Blue as a means for companies to significantly change how they do business when seeking new ways to grow. The global effort--which introduces the tagline, "What makes you special?"--responds to growing evidence that corporations, after years of retrenchment, are embracing change.

AP - The ranks of National Guard and Reserve troops on active duty for Iraq and the global fight against terror has fallen to just under 118,000, the lowest level since before the U.S. invasion of Iraq three years ago.

USATODAY.com - States, armed with better technology, are finding innovative ways to collect child support, from acquiring the cellphone records of deadbeat parents to withholding their moose-hunting licenses.

Reuters - In many ways, it's a tale of two New York Cities.

Reuters - College basketball fans will get new ways to indulge their passion following a deal announced Tuesday between CBS Sports and Apple.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Chicago, IL (AHN)—Looking for new ways to generate revenue, struggling U.S. airlines are getting bolder about charging customers for every extra amenity — including aisle seats. Attempting to ramp up its bottom line, one major airline, Northwest...

AP - A martyr. The "Earth Wind and Fire" of gospel music. A man set free from an addiction to pornography.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Boston, Mass (AHN) - A new computer program is giving colorblind people several ways to filter multichromatic images on their computer screens. EyePilot also offers the software equivalent of a TV hue knob, allowing users to adjust the overall spectrum of a...

AP - Veteran rocker Henry Rollins says he still harbors the anger of his punk roots but has found new ways to channel it off stage.

AFP - Indian President Abdul Kalam has left Myanmar after a four day trip in which he sealed a deal allowing his country to search for new ways to tap Myanmar's natural gas reserves.

NewsFactor - The idea of controlling people by manipulating brain activity long has been a staple of science fiction and dystopian fantasy. Hypnotism, implanted devices, brainwashing, even the Jedi mind trick -- all are methods that have appeared in fictional works as effective ways to subvert the will of human beings.

AP - Senators from competing dairy regions came at Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns from opposite directions Thursday, upset over the ways President Bush's budget-cutting proposals would fall on dairies.

AP - The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council weighed proposals for an initial response to the Iran nuclear crisis Thursday, as Washington urged its allies to consider targeted sanctions and the entire council planned its first meeting on the issue next week.

Reuters - European Union foreign ministers, who meet in the Austrian town of Salzburg on Friday, will seek ways to continue aiding the Palestinians after a government led by the Hamas militant group takes office soon.