Reuters - Palestinian election winner Hamas has chosen one of its own to be the next prime minister, a spokesman for the Islamic militant group said on Monday.

AFP - Hamas will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from all occupied Palestinian territories, its leader has told Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

Reuters - In the absence of any significant new rollouts internationally during the weekend, Steven Spielberg's "Munich," playing in 49 markets, found itself displaced from its No. 1 box-office spot by "Les bronzes 3: Amis pour la vie," a French-produced comedy that Warner Bros. is distributing in France.

AFP - Mobile mania comes to Spain for four days from Monday, when telecoms companies will vie for the attention of visitors to this year's 3GSM World Congress, the globe's self-styled "premier mobile event".

Reuters - Jennifer Beals has come aboard "The Grudge 2," a sequel to the 2004 horror hit.

Reuters - Early signs are that a direct-to-video sequel to a sixtysomething-year-old movie is racking up impressive sales -- to the point of handily beating a new theatrical release targeting the same child audience.

AP - An African proverb holds that "when the elephants fight, the grass suffers" — meaning that warmaking by leaders only ends up injuring their people.

Reuters - No sooner were the Academy Award nominations announced last week than the studios began slotting nominees for DVD release, in the hopes that an Oscar win March 5 would translate to higher sales.

AP - Jon Sim and Roberto Luongo roughed up the Washington Capitals — again.

AP - Florida newcomer Jon Sim gave the Panthers a big lift.

USATODAY.com - Director Kevin Smith's sequel to his groundbreaking Clerks is a coming-of-age story for guys in their 30s who never grew up. The first film, which came out in 1994, was a homemade, grainy, black-and-white chronicle of one slacker's daylong shift of misery at a tiny convenience store that became a cultural touchstone for Generation X.

The Christian Science Monitor - This winter, teenagers at a Chicago high school used their Xanga websites to post obscene and threatening comments about a teacher, in one case suggesting her neck be "slit like a ... chicken."

Reuters - A sequel to the wildly successful movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" is set to begin production later this year, with Andrew Adamson returning as director.

The Christian Science Monitor - Ballots are out and armchair Oscar voters are in place as five sober dramas - all with weighty subject matter - vie for Hollywood's top honors: best film and best director.

Everybody knows the baby boomers are aging, but the numbers are quite staggering. 8,000 people turn 60 every day in this country and orthopedic surgeon Nick DiNubile has an interesting take on the aging of the boomers.