After eBay made Jeff Skoll a billionaire, he went to Hollywood to make small movies with big messages. By Michael S. Malone from Wired magazine.

Reuters - They hold the British record for fastest-selling debut album, have been labeled the next Oasis and are hailed as the first superstars of the iPod age.

AP - For sale: 1,800 acres of Val Kilmer's Pecos River Ranch southeast of Santa Fe. Asking price: $18 million.

Reuters - Hypoguard USA, Inc., the operator of Medisys's U.S. blood glucose monitoring business, has settled with Roche Holding AG's diagnostics unit over a patent row, Medisys said on Friday.

AFP - Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will face an "unofficial reprimand" after responding to crowd taunts in Perth with a single-finger gesture, officials said.

Reuters - U.S. employers added a smaller-than-forecast 193,000 new jobs in January but job growth in each of the five prior months was pushed up as part of a broader annual revision of the Labor Department's statistics collection, a government report on Friday showed.

A string of fires scorched churches in central Alabama and investigators are tying to determine if an arsonist is at work, a state official said today. Six fires were reported in two counties between about midnight and 3 a.m. today. Two churches were destroyed, but no one was injured in the blazes. "We're clearly investigating these as arson," said Ragan Ingram, with the Alabama Department of Insurance.

A string of fires scorched churches in central Alabama and investigators are tying to determine if an arsonist is at work, a state official said today. Six fires were reported in two counties between about midnight and 3 a.m. today. Two churches were destroyed, but no one was injured in the blazes. "We're clearly investigating these as arson," said Ragan Ingram, with the Alabama Department of Insurance.

A string of fires scorched churches in central Alabama and investigators are tying to determine if an arsonist is at work, a state official said today. Six fires were reported in two counties between about midnight and 3 a.m. today. Two churches were destroyed, but no one was injured in the blazes. "We're clearly investigating these as arson," said Ragan Ingram, with the Alabama Department of Insurance.

AP - Sheryl Crow, Lindsay Lohan, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Ann Womack and other singing stars strutted their stuff for a new crowd Friday: the fashion editors, stylists and retailers at New York Fashion Week.

AP - A Roman Catholic priest who was jailed in Haiti for his political activities thanked his supporters for pressuring the country's government to release him so he could be treated for leukemia.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says Iran has "several weeks" to defuse the crisis over its alleged nuclear ambitions.

Three people die in Brazil's city of Sao Paulo in a crush to see a visiting Mexican pop group.

AP - As grand exits go, it wasn't much. The Bus didn't win the Super Bowl for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the final game of his career. Didn't even have a lot to do with it, until he was given the ball to grind up some yards and run down the clock toward the end.

President Bush's 2007 budget request supports math and science instruction and high school reform, targets resources, and eliminates 42 ineffective programs, saving $3.5 billion.

AP - Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday it is exploring various options for its nearly $4 billion over-the-counter drug unit, including selling or spinning off the business which includes Listerine mouth wash, Visine eye drops and Lubriderm skin lotion.

World leaders have called for calm over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed as deadly violence spilled into a third day in Afghanistan. Wire reports said police shot dead two protesters to stop an angry crowd from marching on a U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan.

Reuters - PepsiCo Inc. said on Wednesday fourth-quarter profit rose as strong sales of salty snacks and Gatorade sports drinks and Aquafina water offset the impact of increasing energy and raw material costs.

The spate of church fires in rural Alabama is motivated by hate, a state official said today, but it's not clear whether arsonists are choosing their targets on the basis of race or religion. "Obviously, somebody or somebodies are interested in burning down churches, whether it's hate against a race or a religion in general, we don't know," state assistant insurance commissioner Ragan Ingram told CNN.

The spate of church fires in rural Alabama is motivated by hate, a state official said today, but it's not clear whether arsonists are choosing their targets on the basis of race or religion. "Obviously, somebody or somebodies are interested in burning down churches, whether it's hate against a race or a religion in general, we don't know," state assistant insurance commissioner Ragan Ingram told CNN.