Five presumed drug gang members and one soldier were killed in shootouts Thursday and Friday after criminals blocked thoroughfares in two northern Mexico states to prevent military reinforcements from arriving, authorities said.

As Pope Benedict XVI wound down his first visit to the United States in 2008, the U.S. Catholic Church's news service noted that the pontiff had achieved his top objective for the trip by personally apologizing to Americans who had been sexually abused by priests.

This week: Mapping! It's one of my favorite topics. We'll discuss how maps are made, who owns the aerial image of your backyard, and how to crowd-source mapmaking. With Peter Birch of Google and Nick Black of Cloudmade.

It may sound like two big companies fighting over who gets what. But there's plenty at stake in this court fight for other content creators and Web site operators.

There wasn't a big-screen hero with a gun to his head or a Hollywood beauty in harm's way, but Washington was caught-up in a cliffhanger this week -- and President Barack Obama was at the center of it.

A video clip which shows an office worker opening a Kit Kat chocolate bar and finding an orangutan's finger has been re-posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, a day after it was removed at the request of food giant Nestlé.