Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.

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Musharraf was speaking to a group of businessmen and bankers in Karachi on Monday -- the same day that a bomb exploded in an industrial area of the city, killing 10 people and injuring 45 others, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

CNN: Musharraf: Troops told to shoot

Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed.

NPR: Texas District Attorney, Wife Found Dead At Home

Mr Overton said the council was within its permitted development rights to prepare the area and that a press release had been issued notifying people of the work.

BBC: New footpath in a copse

During a tense confrontation witnessed by a government-sponsored press tour in the area protesters smashed the windscreen of a police vehicle, prompting the police to draw their weapons.

ECONOMIST: Riots in China

According to press reports, Chancellor Merkel said yesterday there would be no collective guarantees of euro area member country debt "as long as I live".

BBC: War of words for euro summit

Sukma police official Abishek Shandilya told the Press Trust of India news agency that security forces were searching for rebels in the forested area of Puarti village.

BBC: India police 'kill nine Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar told a press conference on Tuesday that the woman and her friend had boarded the bus in the Munirka area of south Delhi.

BBC: Delhi bus gang rape: Uproar in Indian parliament

"Given the total absence of any type of law enforcement and rule of law in the area, there is elephant meat all over the place, " he told the Associated Press.

BBC: Elephant poaching 'rising' in Central African Republic