GAZA CITY, August 2, 2008 (AFP) - Hamas on Saturday ordered the closure of the 'Voice of the People' radio station operated in Gaza City by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a station official said.

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - US satellite radio giants Sirius and XM completed their merger Tuesday after winning a lengthy battle with regulators over concerns about market competition.

The new company formed by Sirius Satellite Radio's buyout of XM Satellite Radio, will be called Sirius XM Radio Inc.

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2008 (AFP) - US regulators formally approved the long-delayed billion-dollar merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies, combining Sirius and XM to a single network with 18 million subscribers, media reported Saturday.

LONDON, June 2, 2008 (AFP) - British media company SMG said on Monday it had sold its Virgin Radio unit to a division of the Times of India Group for 53.2 million pounds (67.1 million euros, 104.4 million dollars).

WASHINGTON, May 27, 2008 (AFP) - A communications glitch between the Phoenix Mars probe and Earth has delayed operations, two days after the spacecraft landed on on the Red Planet in search of conditions to support life, NASA said Tuesday.

VATICAN CITY, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Italy's top appeals court reversed the acquittal of two Vatican Radio officials implicated in alleged electromagnetic pollution emanating from the station's transmitters.

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Clear Channel Communications said it had reached an out-of-court settlement with banks that will allow a private equity buyout of the radio and billboard giant to move forward.

LONDON, April 26, 2008 (AFP) - British jazz musician and BBC broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton died Friday following surgery, his website and the BBC said. The trumpeter was 86.

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - Clear Channel Communications said Thursday a US judge has barred a global group of major banks from backing out of a 19.5-billion-dollar private equity buyout of the radio and billboard giant.

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - Clear Channel Communications said Thursday a judge has barred a group of banks from pulling out of funding for a 19.5-billion-dollar private equity buyout of the big radio station operator.