WASHINGTON - IBM, having already come up with a computer that can beat the world's best chess players, is gearing up for another challenge.

The US computer giant on Monday announced it was developing a computer to compete with humans on the popular US television quiz show 'Jeopardy'. IBM said its scientists have been working for nearly two years on an advanced computing system codenamed 'Watson' - after IBM founder Thomas Watson, not Sherlock Holmes's sidekick.

SAN FRANCISCO - INTERNET rights champions on Monday accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get iPods to work with music websites other than iTunes.

Attorneys from nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) teamed with OdioWorks lawyers to file a lawsuit against California-based Apple in a US federal court.

HARARE (Zimbabwe) - GROWING pressure from poaching and human encroachment in Zimbabwe has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate from the country and at least one leopard to stalk an upmarket Harare suburb, conservationists said on Monday.

The independent Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force appealed in its latest monthly bulletin for more action - and money - to preserve the troubled nation's wildlife.