AP - The broadcaster Discovery Communications Inc. wants to help kids with their homework by selling them access to an enhanced home version of the video encyclopedia network already used by thousands of schools.

AP - Governments, not private companies, should take the lead in improving public access to safe drinking water, representatives of 148 countries said Wednesday at the end of a forum on how to tackle the world's water crisis.

AP - Bank of America Corp. has reached a deal with a Chinese bank to offer both of their customers free ATM access while they're traveling abroad.

AP - Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that a school acted properly in refusing to allow a student to wear Muslim clothing of her choice rather than the attire permitted under school policy.

Nearly 40% of NHS staff do not have access to basic hygiene measures, health inspectors find.

AP - A U.N. investigator who was granted rare access to Chinese detention centers last year is calling for sweeping changes in the country's police and court systems to reduce the widespread use of torture.

AP - Ed Whitacre Jr., the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed critics who say its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable.

Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission should encourage competition for TV viewers by ensuring that telephone companies entering the business can buy access to programming, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.

AP - Ed Whitacre, the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed criticism that its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable.

Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday called on regulators to force Cablevision Systems Corp. provide access to its lucrative sports programming, including the New York Knicks basketball team and New York Rangers hockey team.

AP - The European Union's executive office on Tuesday called on the governments of member nations to do more to get people online, saying only 13 percent of the union's 450 million people have broadband Internet access.

AP - A U.N. investigator who was granted rare access to Chinese detentions centers last year is calling for sweeping changes in the country's police and court systems to reduce the widespread use of torture.

Prisoners in Oregon are getting access to game gadgets to help them adjust to life outside jail.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejects an appeal by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard seeking access to classified documents in his file. The justices declined to review a U.S. appeals court decision that said federal courts do not have...

PC World - Lawsuit accuses company of using fraudulent tactics to access mobile phone logs.

AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to give Jonathan Pollard, now serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, access to records that could bolster his case for a presidential clemency.

Reuters - Port to telecom conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa said on Monday its third-generation telecoms service clients would be able to access Microsoft's instant messenger, MSN, and Hotmail through their handsets.

AP - As the Bush administration presses for wider use of health savings accounts, experts acknowledge that a big piece of the puzzle is still missing: ready access to the true cost of a medical procedure.

Reuters - Drought, poverty, war, pollution and chaotic urban growth are preventing African governments from supplying clean water to their people, United Nations officials said on Sunday.

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.