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AFC Enterprises Incorporated said today it has signed a franchising agreement to open 100 Church's Chicken restaurants in 19 African countries by 2007. The first is scheduled to open in April in South Africa.

Grits are long overdue for a state honor, says one Georgia representative who proposed Monday making the Southern breakfast staple the state's official prepared food.

Internet users looking to give friends and relatives an easy-to-remember e-mail or Web site address can now turn to their own name.

U.S. poultry growers have a chicken-and-egg dilemma. For decades, people who raise chickens for dinner tables have been honing their "selective breeding" skills and have gotten pretty good at growing the fattest bird possible.

The scenario is frustratingly familiar to cell phone users: Warning beeps, "My battery's going," silence. Who hasn't gotten disconnected?

Buying gifts online was a popular option this holiday season. But how well did e-tailers do at fulfilling guarantees and getting orders to customers in time for Christmas?

Gasoline prices increased 3 cents in the past three weeks, ending a 15-week price crash that began with the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to a newly released industry analysis.

The timing of an accounting firm's memo directing the destruction of documents raises the serious possibility of obstruction of justice, according to the chairman of a Senate committee investigating Enron Corp.'s collapse.

Starting Friday, every piece of luggage going on board an airplane must be checked for explosives or matched with a passenger.

The timing of an accounting firm's memo directing the destruction of documents raises the serious possibility of obstruction of justice, says the chairman of a Senate committee investigating Enron Corp.'s collapse.