AP - Students clashed with police and activists rampaged through a McDonald's restaurant and torched the entrance to a Gap store in the capital Saturday as demonstrations against a government plan to loosen job protections spread in a widening arc across France.

AP - Women's basketball teams chosen for the 2006 NCAA tournament continue to outscore male counterparts in college graduation rates, but the achievement gap is closing.

Faster chips may close the performance gap with AMD, but benefits for consumers are less clear. By Bruce Gain.

Reuters - Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.K) said on Tuesday it planned to launch a next-generation DVD player that will bridge the yawning gap between two competing formats by playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Reuters - U.S. retail sales fell a larger-than-expected 1.3 percent in February as auto sales plunged and consumers took a breather after spending big in January, a government report showed on Tuesday.

Reuters - The U.S. current account deficit widened more than expected in the fourth quarter to a record $224.9 billion as the goods trade gap ballooned, pushing the current account gap to a record $804.9 billion in 2005, government data showed on Tuesday.

AFP - Rangers crushed Kilmarnock 4-0 at Ibrox in the Scottish Premier League to narrow the gap on Hearts in the race for Champions League qualification.

The Sporting News - Though Adam Morrison leads J.J. Redick by one point per game (28.8-27.8) in the NCAA scoring race, there's a double-figures gap regarding their futures in the NBA. A league exec who scouts draft prospects says Morrison will be one of the top three picks in the June 28 draft if he enters as expected. The exec says he would take Redick between Nos. 15 and 20.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The U.S. trade deficit hits a staggering $68.5-billion in January as the U.S. demand for foreign exports continues to soar. The monthly trade gap widened 5.3-percent from a revised estimate of $65.1-billion in December and...

Reuters - The U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in January to a record $68.5 billion, as record imports fueled by high oil prices outstripped record exports propelled by stronger foreign demand, a U.S. Commerce Department report showed on Thursday.

Reuters - The U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in January to a record $68.5 billion, as record imports fueled by high oil prices outstripped record exports propelled by stronger foreign demand, a U.S. Commerce Department report showed on Thursday.

NewsFactor - Cisco Systems is taking a closer look at enterprise security with plans to integrate video-surveillance capabilities with its Internet Protocol (IP) networking technology, in effect bridging the gap between analog and digital video.

European women are better educated than men, but get fewer top jobs and lower salaries, new statistics show.

AP - The sales clerk at The Gap, the perfume lady at the department store and the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cashier would all get health insurance from their employers under a bill introduced Tuesday, shifting the cost of skyrocketing health care in many cases from taxpayers to big businesses.

AP - The sales clerk at The Gap, the perfume lady at the department store and the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cashier would all get health insurance from their employers under a bill introduced Tuesday, shifting the cost of skyrocketing health care in many cases from taxpayers to big businesses.

AP - Last year was the first in which telephone companies added more broadband Internet subscribers than their cable TV rivals did, according to a research report.

AP - Last year was the first in which telephone companies added more broadband Internet subscribers than their cable TV rivals did, according to a research report.

Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Friday that all of its pharmacies would carry emergency contraceptive pills, bowing to pressure from states seeking to force the world's biggest retailer to do so.

Reuters - Apparel retailer Gap Inc. said on Friday that its chief supply chain officer, Nick Cullen, will leave the company, effective March 10.

AFP - A widening gap between China's haves and have-nots will top the agenda when 3,000 Chinese lawmakers start their annual parliamentary session in Beijing's Great Hall of the People this weekend.