Toshiba Debuts Laptop HD DVD Writer BetaNews - By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews. Toshiba said Monday that it had produced the first HD DVD writer for mobile PCs, which would also have read and write capabilities for standard DVD as well as CD discs.

AP - On a once-lush landscape made wasteland overnight by the Tungurahua volcano, five members of the Meneses family raised picks and hoes in unison to strike at ash-encrusted earth.

Dubya-expelled Aussie receives top science award NEWS.com.au, Australia - ... who received the $337,000 Gruber Prize in New Orleans on Tuesday, was lauded by the Peter Gruber Foundation for her "fight against the politicisation of science ...