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INSURGENT attacks have killed three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan while air strikes have thwarted a Taliban plan to storm a key southern town by killing 22 militants, authorities say.

(Telecompaper) Brazilian operator Oi reported first-quarter net revenue of BRL 7.487 billion, up 3.5 percent from the year-earlier period. Fixed-line gross revenues rose 3.6 percent to BRL 8.97 billion, and mobile revenues increased 28.4 percent to BRL 2.2 billion. EBITDA dropped to BRL 2.191 billion versus BRL 2.548 in March 2008, while net earnings of BRL 10 million were down from BRL 564 a year ago due to higher financing costs. Revenue-generating units increased by 1.7 million versus December 2008 and 10.3 million since March 2008 to a total 57.7 million. The mobile activities added a net 1.8 million customers in Q1, taking the total base to 31.8 million, up 6.1 percent in the quarter and 45.3 percent versus March 2008. Prepaid additions accounted for 90 percent of the total, while the 26,857 new postpaid users were helped by the new Oi Ligadores campaign. Oi Conta Total had 1.161 million users at year-end, up 9.4 percent in the quarter. On the fixed broadband market, the subscribe

Music News: Questionable org collects royalties, doesn't pay up -- The China Audio-Video Copyright Assn., set up in 2007 to collect copyright fees, which it began doing in 2008. The org considers karaoke singers to be performers, and so fees must be hammered out in accordance with record company contracts. The org, which has collected 80 million yuan ($11.8 million), now says there is no money to distribute

Zurich - Football's governing body FIFA on Friday announced that in the wake of the latest stadium disaster in the Ivory Coast during which at least 22 fans died in March the organization had accepted new crowd control measures. In a statement issued...

General Motors is notifying 1,100 of its 6,000 dealers today that it will not renew their franchise agreements when they expire by October 2010.

Reigning premiers Hawthorn broke Fremantle's three-game winning streak with a hard-fought 22-point win at Subiaco Oval on Friday night.

Cliff Lee is pitching like it's 2008 again. He's rarely throwing pitches right over the middle of the plate, and when he is, he is disguising them well.

War planes attacked Taliban militants who were preparing to enter the southern Afghan town of Lashkar Gah, police have said.

International News: British producers' work to receive retrospective -- Croatia's biggest annual cultural event, the Zagreb Film Festival, will celebrate the work of British producers Mike Downey and Sam Taylor with its first-ever retrospective in October.

Front Page: Show gives ABC edge in total viewers for night -- On a night that all but wrapped up Thursday's portion of the 2008-09 primetime season, 'Grey's Anatomy' was the dominant force, powering ABC to an easy victory among adults 18-49 along with a narrow edge in total viewers over CBS, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.