Serbia-Montenegro withdraws from the Eurovision Song Contest after a row over their national entry.

Reuters - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko headed for overwhelming electoral victory on Sunday, but his liberal rival's backers massed in a square accusing him of rigging the vote and demanding a re-run.

Reuters - Polls opened in Belarus on Sunday in a presidential election where President Alexander Lukashenko seeks re-election against a liberal opposition who vow to contest any attempt to rig the polls.

Reuters - Slobodan Milosevic will be buried on Saturday in a funeral that is shaping up as a contest to settle who really represents Serbia - his diehard nationalist followers or the pro-Western democrats who ousted him in 2000.

AP - As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.

Structural biology, sun-earth connections, an eclipse, colonial America, Confederate maps, World War II maps, and an essay contest on the First Amendment are among the topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.

Macworld.com - A contest to see who could get Windows XP working first on an Intel Mac has been won, according to the contest’s coordinator, Colin Nederkoorn. A terse statement posted to the Windows XP on an Intel Mac page reads, “Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly.”

Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking from home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, as she walked along the railroad tracks in Austin, Texas, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking from home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, as she walked along the railroad tracks in Austin, Texas, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking from home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, as she walked along the railroad tracks in Austin, Texas, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking from home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, as she walked along the railroad tracks in Austin, Texas, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

High school juniors are invited to write an essay examining the historical debate on the benefits and disadvantages of adopting the First Amendment. While its words are familiar, the rights it guarantees -- involving religion, speech, free press, public assembly, and petition -- were modified many times in the First Congress (1789). The best essay will receive $5,000. (National Endowment for the Humanities)

Reuters - The union of Serbia and Montenegro has pulled out of this year's Eurovision Song Contest after its two constituent republics came close to a brawl over the choice of song.

AP - Polling stations opened Tuesday in Belarus for early voters in Sunday's presidential election, a closely watched contest that the opposition fears will be rigged in favor of the authoritarian incumbent.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Tehran, Iran (AHN) – An Iranian newspaper's cartoon contest about the Holocaust has drawn 700 entries from about 200 people so far, an official at the newspaper has said. One entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline. Another portrays the Holocaust as a...

E! Online - Master P does have his limits, at least in court.

AP - In a deal with prosecutors, rapper Master P pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor gun charge and was placed on probation for three years.

AP - An Iranian newspaper's contest for Holocaust-related cartoons has drawn entries from 200 people, with some drawings mocking the World War II slaughter: One entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline.

NewsFactor - A university systems engineer, boasting that a Swedish Mac-hacking contest was too easy, had his own Mac challenge shut down when his employers realized hackers would be slamming the school's networks.

E! Online - The 23-year-old actor was sentenced to 10 days in Los Angeles County Jail after pleading no contest Wednesday to a drunken driving charge, the city attorney's office confirmed.