RABAT, Morocco ? The muezzins’ calls echo well before daybreak, summoning the Muslim Uproar over loud prayer calls in Muslim Morocco - San Diego Union-Tribune faithful to daily prayers and reminding foreign tourists in the Moroccan capital how far they are from home. But the rising decibel level is deepening fault lines …

BEIJING ? A Chinese human rights activist whose husband was jailed earlier this year Chinese rights activist Zeng Jinyan disappears - San Diego Union-Tribune has disappeared and may have been taken by police to prevent her from speaking to journalists during the Beijing Olympics, an overseas-based human rights group …

When one of the country’s top experts in prescription economics set out to help his mother Too many choices? - Baltimore Sun choose one of the new drug discount cards, it should have been a piece of cake. But Stephen W. Schondelmeyer spent 45 minutes trolling a Medicare Web site to …

BEIJING — The sheer numbers! Human beings suspended by wires and running across a Theme from Beijing: There’s always someone else - Detroit Free Press sphere. Hundreds of drummers beating on lights, creating a human countdown. Fireworks going off not only in the stadium but up the streets and around the city …

Christopher Coppola, 46, nephew of Francis Ford and older brother of Nicolas Cage, hasn’t been called the pirate of the Coppola family for nothing. Clad in a fringed leather jacket and sporting a variety of silver jewelry, his head swathed in a black …

The Indiana State Police are warning cell phone owners to be wary of a new scam. Identity thieves and scam artists have long used ”phishing” to obtain personal or financial account information from potential victims by sending real looking emails …

Here in Silicon Valley, our passion for the latest in cell phones and mobile devices like the new iPhone is unbounded. But after you get that whiz-bang gadget out of the box, can you actually connect? It’s no small irony that in the technology …

Why can’t we get a definitive answer about cell phones and health? Mobile phones have been Why Cell-Phone Health Concerns Persist - BusinessWeek around for over 20 years, and they’re now used by more than 3 billion people. Yet questions linger over whether mobile phones can contribute to health problems …

Do you use a cell phone? How about a BlackBerry, Treo, Sidekick or other personal digital assistant, or PDA, device? Visitors to amNY.com can now get full-text access to local news, sports, business and entertainment on their cell phone or PDA …

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? More than 40,000 telephone customers in the Harrisburg area have their phone service back after a water leak knocked out phone service, including 911, for nearly seven hours. Service was restored just before 11 p.m. Friday …