AP - Warren Buffett remains optimistic about the prospects for his company and the nation even though Berkshire Hathaway Inc. turned in its worst performance in 2008 and the widely-followed investor says the economy will likely remain a mess beyond this year.

AP - Iraq's parliament pushed back voting Saturday on this year's budget and could be forced to make further cuts because of falling oil prices.

AP - A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal reported. The frogfish — which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail — was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour operator a year ago in shallow waters off Ambon island in eastern Indonesia.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.

AP - After months of cutting oil production it appeared this week that oil producing nations had finally captured some control in the crude markets, at least until the latest batch of economic news sent oil prices falling yet again.

AP - Nothing says summer in Iowa like a cloud of dust behind a combine.

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (OneWorld.net) - Thousands of protestors will stage an act of mass civil disobedience at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC Monday, in what may be the highest profile act of civil disobedience on climate change in the United States.

AFP - A Japanese court Friday ordered the government to pay more than 57 million dollars in compensation to residents over noise pollution from a US air base on the southern island of Okinawa.

AP - After months of cutting oil production it appeared this week that oil producing nations had finally captured some control in the crude markets, at least until the latest batch of economic news sent oil prices falling yet again.

Reuters - Oil prices fell 1 percent on Friday, pulled lower by U.S. data showing the economy of the world's largest energy consumer shrank more than expected in the final three months of 2008.