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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Celebrities' whining about a lack of privacy, but then acting out in public to draw paparazzi attention, may be exhibiting a form of addiction.

Last October, Project Gutenberg -- the Web's first and largest online library of free electronic books -- released a long-awaited DVD containing close to 10,000

Last October, Project Gutenberg -- the Web's first and largest online library of free electronic books -- released a long-awaited DVD containing close to 10,000

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- This is the second part of a roundtable on the future of online reference, with three pivotal industry players. Part I ran Monday.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- These are momentous times in the digital content industry. Within the past 60 days, Barnes and Noble withdrew from the e-books business, peddling its electronic

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 30 (UPI) -- Last month, Switzerland's annual rate of inflation dipped to 1.3 percent. Once a cause for celebration, it is now construed to be a worrisome sign of lurking deflation. Growth has been below trend for years now. Demand is ever weakening and capacity is i

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 29 (UPI) -- Indonesia''s Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels per day, adopted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last week. He intends to demand further reductions at the

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 24 (UPI) -- YukosSibneft Oil -- the outcome of the announced merger of Yukos Oil and Sibneft, two of Russia's prominent energy behemoths -- will pump 2.06 to 2.3 million barrels per day of crude. That's more than the current output of Kuwait, Canada or Iraq.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 22 (UPI) -- One sure sign of this niche''s growing importance is the proliferation of conferences, consultancies, seminars, trade publications and books. Banks and law and accounting firms have set up dedicated departments to tackle the juridical and commercial intri

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 22 (UPI) -- Martin Schubert and his New York- (now Miami-) based investment boutique, European Inter-American Finance, in joint venture with Merrill Lynch and Aetna, pioneered the private trading of sovereign obligations of emerging market economies, including those

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 21 (UPI) -- A day after he won a parliamentary vote of confidence, 58-year old Rafik Hariri, Lebanon''s multi-billionaire prime minister, reluctantly formed a new, overtly pro-Syrian government with 30 ministers, only 11 of whom are new faces.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 17 (UPI) -- Trading Iraqi debt -- sovereign notes, letters of credit and papers issued by the central bank and two other banks, Rafidain Bank and Rashid Bank, is onerous. The Economist describes it thus: "Trading, or even holding, Iraqi paper is loaded with traps.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 17 (UPI) -- The French were at it again last Friday. Any reduction in Iraq's $120 billion external debt should be negotiated within the Paris Club of creditor nations, they insisted.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 16 (UPI) -- Dutch electronics giant Philips reported yesterday a first quarter loss of $76 million with sales plunging by one seventh. It promptly blamed tottering consumer confidence, escalating pension costs, vanishing sales of television sets and a generally grim

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 15 (UPI) -- Romanian President Ion Iliescu contests his homeland''s geography. On Monday, at a joint press conference with Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov, he cast both countries as "central-south European" rather than the derogatory "Balkan."

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 14 (UPI) -- Ukraine's long-predicted economic revival is at hand. After a long hiatus, both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are expected to make new commitments in their forthcoming visits in June or July. Finance Minister Mykola Azarov is hoping f

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 10 (UPI) -- Kosovo is not as poor as it is made out to be by interested parties. It has enormous lead reserves, coal and lignite veins and loads of zinc, silver, gold, nickel, cobalt and other minerals, including rumored mines of uranium.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 10 (UPI) -- Should the United Nations administer Iraq? Is it -- as Kofi Annan, its secretary-general, insists -- the best qualified to build nations? Or will it act as a bureaucracy out to perpetuate itself by preventing true transformation and indigenous rule?

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 9 (UPI) -- In testimony before the U.S. Senate Steel Caucus on Tuesday, industry executives urged legislators to ignore the future decision of a World Trade Organization appeals panel, widely expected to uphold an earlier preliminary ruling that U.S.-imposed steel t

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 8 (UPI) -- Is Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein hiding in Syria? DEBKAfile, an Israeli-owned rumor mill, thinks so.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 7 (UPI) -- As the pro-war and anti-war camps are holding their summits, a consensus is emerging in Europe -- including Britain -- that the "road map" for peace in the Middle East would be a futile exercise without some "teeth." Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation ma

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 3 (UPI) -- Russia is close to North Korea. In its previous incarnation as the Soviet Union, in 1965, it built North Korea's infamous Yongbyon facilities. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to Sout

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 3 (UPI) -- Success is the best proselytizer. Faced with the imminent demise of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime, both Russia and Germany -- erstwhile champions of peace and the sanctity of international law -- expressed their hope Wednesday for a swift victory o

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 2 (UPI) -- Iraqi Jews -- a quarter of a million strong -- are known in Israel for their haughtiness and broad education, the latter often the cause of the former. They were forced to flee Arab-nationalist Iraq in 1941-1951, following the rise of Nazism and, later,

SKOPJE, Macedonia, April 1 (UPI) -- Arab nations plan to table a resolution at the U.N. General Assembly condemning the U.S.-British led "invasion" and "occupation" of Iraq and calling for immediate troop withdrawal. This is not likely to endear the organization to the Bush administration.