Reuters - One thing can be said about the Environmental Film Festival: it's not Cannes or Sundance. It may not even be Missoula. But it is part of a U.S. trend to feature movies about nature and the assaults on it.

Reuters - Walt Disney Co.'s Buena Vista Games Inc. said on Friday it plans to release a PC video game based on the wildly popular television show "Desperate Housewives" this fall.

The wife of a slain minister has confessed to killing him, police in Selmer, Tennessee, said today. Police said the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is taking part in questioning Mary Winkler, informed them of the confession. Winkler, 32, faces a charge of first-degree murder for the death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31. Church member Pam Killingsworth described Mary Winkler as always seeming like "the perfect mother, the perfect wife," with very loving children.

AP - An Internet marketing company that offered free movie tickets in exchange for friends' e-mail addresses agreed to pay a $900,000 fine to settle charges it violated federal anti-spam laws, authorities said Friday.

The Motley Fool - Ring, ring! Will somebody please pick up the phone? It's Mobile Telesystems (NYSE: MBT - News) on the line, calling with its Q4 and full-year 2005 earnings news. Problem is, I'm a late sleeper, and the news is due out at 6 a.m. EST on Monday. So I'm happy to go over where the company's been and where it seems to be headed right now ... but on Monday, like I said, will somebody else please get the phone?

AFP - Jaroslava Moserova, a former doctor and novelist who in 2003 became the Czech Republic's first female presidential candidate, died Thursday night aged 76, a family friend said.

AFP - An Afghan Christian facing possible execution for converting from Islam was likely to be released from jail "soon," a senior government official said following huge Western pressure over the case.

AP - The Supreme Court said Friday that it would hear arguments a second time before ruling on the constitutionality of a Kansas death penalty law, apparently so new Justice Samuel Alito can break a tie.

AP - Three days after saying it will delay the consumer version of its new Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft Corp. said Friday that the update to its Office business software suite also won't appear in stores until January.

AP - The United Nations appealed Tuesday for nearly $327 million in aid to help starving people in southern Somalia, which is suffering its worst drought in a decade.

The wife of a slain minister confessed to shooting him at their church parsonage, then fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three daughters, authorities said. Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband, Matthew, on Wednesday.

Reuters - NASA lifted its ban on spacewalks from the International Space Station following ground tests of suspect safety equipment, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

AP - Larry Bigbie, among the contenders for the St. Louis Cardinals' vacant left field job, said Friday he'll be sidelined two to three weeks with a stress fracture in his left foot.

The wife of a slain minister has confessed to killing him, police in Selmer, Tennessee, said today. Police said the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is taking part in questioning Mary Winkler, informed them of the confession. Winkler, 32, faces a charge of first-degree murder for the death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31. Church member Pam Killingsworth described Mary Winkler as always seeming like "the perfect mother, the perfect wife," with very loving children. Police say the couple's three children, who were with their mother, are in "very good condition."

The wife of a slain minister has confessed to killing him, police in Selmer, Tennessee, said today. Police said the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is taking part in questioning Mary Winkler, informed them of the confession. Winkler, 32, faces a charge of first-degree murder for the death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31. Church member Pam Killingsworth described Mary Winkler as always seeming like "the perfect mother, the perfect wife," with very loving children.

AFP - Polish authorities said they are investigating allegations North Korean labourers are being forced to work in inhumane conditions in the northern Polish shipyard where the Solidarity trade union was born 26 years ago.

Reuters - There is growing evidence of a link between global warming and natural disasters such as droughts and flooding, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.

The wife of a slain Tennessee preacher will be charged with killing him, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said today. Mary Winkler, 32, will face a charge of first-degree murder, the TBI said. Matthew Winkler, preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee, was found dead at his parsonage on Wednesday night. After a daylong search, Winkler's wife and children were 340 miles away in Orange Beach, Alabama.

The wife of a slain Tennessee minister will be charged with killing him, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said today. Mary Winkler, 32, will face a charge of first-degree murder, the TBI said. Matthew Winkler, minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee, was found dead at his parsonage on Wednesday night. After a daylong search, Winkler's wife and children were 340 miles away in Orange Beach, Alabama.

Reuters - A hominid skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race, a scientist said on Friday.