Week in review (International telephone calls)

Week in review
Sitnews - Journalist Jill Carroll released in Baghdad after 82 days Freelance reporter Jill Carroll, 28, was freed Thursday by captors who held her in a small house in Baghdad for 82 days while demanding the release of all female prisoners in Iraq. "It is

White House discloses new details on eavesdropping
New Zealand Herald - WASHINGTON - The White House, under mounting political pressure in Congress, provided the full House of Representatives intelligence committee today with new details about its domestic spying programme and pledged to do the same in the Senate

Cheap post-paid phone service launched in Bahrain
AME Info - The StarTalk Homeline service from the Bahrain-based Northstar Communications comes on the heels of the launch of its StarTalk prepaid international calling card, which has taken the market by storm by offering the most competitive rates currently

Telecommunications 1991-2000
Kommersant - In recent years, telecommunications have changed our lives beyond recognition. Today, we can learn the news on the Internet and read e-mail on cell-phone screens. All this is a product of the latest stage in the information revolution, which began

On Native Ground
American Reporter - DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- A couple of weeks ago, Doug Thompson, the proprietor of the political-news Website Capital Hill Blue, reported that President Bush had referred to the Constitution as "just a godda--ed piece of paper." This remark came during a