AFP - Emergency workers are mounting a massive clean-up operation after the strongest typhoon to pound Manila in a decade left a trail of devastation, at least 16 people dead and millions more without power before heading toward Vietnam.

AP - Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard Co. to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers, the latest volley in a high-stakes battle with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

AFP - The former chairman of Australian wheat exporter AWB has maintained he was ignorant of huge kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime after a special inquiry hauled him back for a second grilling.

AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld steered clear of any judgment on a classified document that concludes the terrorist threat to the U.S. has increased, saying efforts to judge whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have fueled terrorism would be futile.