AP - Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country's eastern coast Monday.

Reuters - Telecommunications executives are banking on big revenue increases during the next few years from new mobile phone services, but getting customers to pay more may not be so easy, according to a report released on Monday.

AP - Prince Charles stirred a small controversy in Egypt even before his scheduled arrival in the country Monday, as some Islamic scholars objected to plans to award him an honorary doctorate.

USATODAY.com - Oil companies and U.S. industries have been aching for years to get at the billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas sitting off the shores of the USA.

AP - A powerful tropical cyclone ripped the roofs off buildings and uprooted trees, tearing across Australia's northeastern coast with powerful winds that kept emergency workers from responding to pleas from terrified residents.

Tropical Cyclone Larry slammed into the northeastern coast of Australia with gusts up to 185 mph (300 kph), authorities in the Australian state of Queensland report. Sounds of metal and lumber being torn from structures could be heard above the winds as the cyclone passed over the beach resort of Innisfail, journalist Phil Willmington told CNN.

Tropical Cyclone Larry slammed into the northeastern coast of Australia with gusts up to 185 miles per hour (300 kilometers per hour), authorities in the Australian state of Queensland report. Sounds of metal and lumber being torn from structures could be heard above the winds as the cyclone passed over the beach resort of Innisfail, journalist Phil Willmington told CNN.

FT.com - Mobile phone users are unlikely to pay extra to access the growing range of video and audio content available on their phones, according to a global KPMG survey. This trend could push operators into rethinking their business models.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall prepare to go on their second overseas tour, to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India.

AP - Two U.S. Navy warships exchanged gunfire with suspected pirates Saturday off the coast of Somalia, and one suspect was killed and five others were wounded, the navy said.

Against the dizzying sounds of South By Southwest buzz bands this week in Austin, Texas, the shape of the music business -- including how record labels are now asking for more artist revenue streams than ever before -- will also be discussed by the leading entertainment law firm between the coasts, Lommen Abdo, which is also cosponsoring the legal forum this year, which has doubled in size. As CD sales decline, record companies increasingly want to participate in music artist income like t-shirt sales, web-site ownership and commerce, ring tone and other digital sales and other revenue-generating activities. Before now none of that was any of their business. And much of it did not even exist! [PRWEB Mar 15, 2006]

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - According to the Internal Revenue Service, just over 1.2 million individual income tax returns were audited in fiscal year 2005. The figure represents a 21 percent increase from a year earlier. That follows a 19 percent increase in...

AP - Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella had the fastest qualifying time for the Malaysian Grand Prix and an engine change spoiled Michael Schumacher's bid to set the Formula One pole position record Saturday.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, are working on the "Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006." According to CNET, the 11-page measure would require the U.S. Department of Commerce to work with the...

AP - Water is worth fighting for — even to the death, activists holding an "alternate" forum outside the world water summit said Friday.

AP - Those who live and work in the region where an ivory-billed woodpecker was reportedly spotted are used to people doubting the bird's discovery — they've heard it before. But despite an article in Friday's issue of the journal Science that suggests the bird does not live in the eastern swamps of Arkansas, locals in the 4,000-resident town of Brinkley don't believe birders will take flight.

Reuters - Metals company Ryerson Inc. said on Friday it expects to revise or restate several financial statements dating back to 2003 due to incorrectly recorded costs and income tax credits.

Reuters - Procter & Gamble Co. on Friday filed a counterclaim against Pfizer Inc. in response to a suit Pfizer filed two weeks ago, which argued that television ads for P&G's Crest Pro-Health mouthwash used false claims, a court document showed.

AP - Reem al-Jawad can't take her young daughters to see Iraq's "great and famous Tigris and Euphrates" rivers — it's too dangerous, she believes. So the 34-year-old Iraqi housewife brought her mother and two girls for a vacation in Egypt, to see the Nile — and to get a brief escape from the violence and psychological stress of the war back home.

Reuters - Tragic results from a clinical study of a new drug which has left six men in Britain seriously ill could be a setback for other trials, at least in the short-term, an industry expert said on Friday.