2007-04-01: ATLANTA (Reuters) - Defending champion Florida and Ohio State will slug it out for the college basketball championship after winning their NCAA Tournament semi-finals on Saturday.

2007-04-01: AP - A 13-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter for allegedly attacking another boy on a school playground who later died of his injuries, police said.

2007-04-01: AP - Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson on Sunday joined the crowded field of Republicans running for the White House in 2008 and proclaimed himself the 'reliable conservative' in the race.

2007-04-01: AFP - It was spring 2002 when Isaac Mao, a Shanghai-based software engineer for US chipmaker Intel, first came across Internet blogs.

2007-04-01: Russia bans all foreigners from working as retailers in its shops and markets under a new law.

2007-04-02: FT.com - Japanese stocks rose on Monday morning, spurred by upbeat projections for capital spending contained in the Bank of Japan's Tankan survey of business confidence.

2007-04-02: AP - Confidence among Japanese manufacturers slipped in March for the first time in a year, according to a closely-watched Bank of Japan survey released Monday.

2007-04-01: AFP - European economic growth could prove to be stronger than expected thanks to an "intense recovery" underway, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told AFP in an interview.

2007-04-02: AP - The subprime mortgage implosion will take even more steam out of the already slowing real estate market this year and beyond, according to a new economic report.

2007-04-04: From Panama to Shanghai, buyers are paying top dollar for properties with pedigrees and developers are prioritizing careful renovations of historic buildings.

2007-04-01: The chances the Internal Revenue Service will audit your tax return are slim. That's why 85 percent of U.S. taxpayers don't sweat about an audit, according to a survey by H&R Block.Comment