Filed under: Gaming var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/playstation/PS3_2_41_firmware_out_now'; Sony's 2.41 firmware update for the PS3 is apparently out and riding the network updates. This according to our readers and those of the official PlayStation Blog. Now deep breath, install, and hope your system doesn't hang like it did for the few 2.40 unfortunates.[Thanks, David]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Reuters - The Fox thriller "Fringe" and CBS' sci-fi drama "Eleventh Hour" will be the highest-rated new shows next season, while NBC's "Kath & Kim" and CBS' "Worst Week" will prove to be weak links in their respective comedy blocks.

Reuters - After a dozen years at Epic Records, country star Patty Loveless is going the indie route with her next album, the September 9 release "Sleepless Nights."

The Group of Eight industrialized nations on Tuesday endorsed halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and called on individual countries to set goals reducing their own emissions much earlier

Negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program will resume this week for the first time in nine months, South Korea's nuclear envoy said Tuesday

JERUSALEM Israel has signed an agreement to swap prisoners with the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, according to a statement released yesterday, as Israeli forces began digging up the bodies of Lebanese fighters to be exchanged in the deal. The statement said the agreement was signed "in the presence of a U.N. representative." The Israelis say implementation of the deal depends on carrying out further steps, but it did not say what they are. Isra
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in U.S. territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released yesterday. The reefs discussed in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report serve as breeding grounds for many of the world's seafood species and act as indicators of overall ocean health. "They are a major indicator of something that c
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NEW YORK In a break with tradition, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat stadium in Denver, rather than at the site of the party's national convention across town. Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean acknowledged the decision to move Obama's speech to the giant open-air football field of the Denver Broncos would raise security challenges. But he said he and Denver Mayor Jo
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3 express concern for FARC captives still in Colombia Appearing healthy but thin in the face, the three Americans who were captive in the Colombian jungle for more than five years made their first public appearance yesterday, waving an American flag and embracing teary family members at a military hospital.

Military policy on gays not needed, officers panel says Congress should repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy because the presence of gays in the military is unlikely to undermine the ability to fight and win, according to a new study released by a California-based research center.

Security deal could include withdrawal timetable, aide says Iraq's prime minister said yesterday his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal the two countries are negotiating.

After attack, Obama counters with his own economic plan Sen. John McCain tried yesterday to relaunch his campaign with a pledge to use broad-based tax cuts to revive the ailing economy - and a string of barbs contrasting his views with Sen. Barack Obama's.

More than 40 killed, 150 hurt in blast at Indian Embassy The car bomb that killed more than 40 people outside the Indian Embassy here yesterday stoked regional tensions and threatened to erode already diminishing confidence in the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Case rejected, genital mutilation victim still fighting to stay in U.S. Growing up in the West African nation of Mali, Alima Traore assumed that girls everywhere had to undergo the procedure.

Firm picked by city panel lost Uplands job to team that includes mayor's associate A development team including a contractor with whom Mayor Sheila Dixon had a relationship was chosen last year for a $200 million project in Southwest Baltimore, even though an independent city panel urged that the contract be awarded to another firm.

The Communications Workers of America's national executive board has suspended the head of the union's largest local - a New Jersey state worker who also used to be Gov. Jon S. Corzine's girlfriend.

A man accused of buying a highly poisonous fish toxin while posing as a research doctor once solicited someone over the Internet to kill his wife in exchange for $8,000 and an AK-47 assault rifle, prosecutors said Monday.

A former television reporter sued a rival Chicago TV station Monday, claiming it aired a videotape of her in a swimsuit at the home of a man whose estranged wife had vanished to boost ratings.