HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- The average length of a pregnancy in the United States is getting shorter, with the most common duration now 39 weeks, rather than 40 weeks, which is considered full term, a new report found.

AP - Heat backup center Alonzo Mourning has a partial tear in his left calf and will be out two to four weeks.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- The average length of a pregnancy in the United States is getting shorter, with the most common duration now 39 weeks, rather than 40 weeks, which is considered full term, a new report found.

Reuters - Toshiba Corp.'s (6502.T) U.S. unit may delay the launch of its next-generation DVD player for several weeks to coincide with the April debut of movies that play in the new HD DVD format, the company said on Thursday.

Coalition forces today rescued three kidnapped Christian aid workers in western Baghdad after receiving information about their location from a detainee captured the night before, a U.S. military official said. James Loney and Harmeet Sooden of Canada, Briton Norman Kember and American Tom Fox were kidnapped on November 26. Fox's body was found in Baghdad two weeks ago. He had been shot in the head.

AP - European Union leaders risked another bad-tempered summit Thursday after weeks of protectionist sniping over attempts to shield companies from takeovers cast doubt on the EU's much-vaunted border-free market.

Reuters - Chieko Ushiyama visits a doctor every two weeks, spending a minimum $200 a month on medical care.

Reuters - The DVD pipeline is tightening. Suppliers in the first 11 weeks of the year have released 13.8% fewer titles than they did in the comparable period last year, and if the trend holds up, this could be the first year with a decline in total DVD output since the format was launched in 1997.

Reuters - U.S.-led forces freed three Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday in an operation mounted two weeks after the kidnappers tortured and killed their American colleague.

AFP - Three Western aid workers held hostage in Iraq for four months were freed, two weeks after one of their colleagues was killed by their captors, the US military said.

AP - Thousands of Shiite and Sunni families who once lived side by side have been forced from their homes and into a desperate exile, victims of the beginnings of ethnic cleansing a month after the bombing of an important Shiite shrine.

Reuters - After nine consecutive weeks of sales increases, the soundtrack to the Disney cable TV movie "High School Musical" returned to the top of the U.S. pop album chart Wednesday.

Reuters - The Edinburgh International Festival unveiled its 2006 program on Wednesday including a topical Shakespearean play on political corruption along with theater, music and dance offerings from around the world.

Reuters - Chieko Ushiyama visits a doctor every two weeks, spending a minimum $200 a month on medical care.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Glendale, OR (AHN) - A missing Oregon family is found after spending two weeks trapped in their RV. Snowbound inside the RV, the family of six was forced to ration their food and gas. They listened to radio reports of their search and were heartbroken when,...

AP - Three weeks of relative peace and tranquility ended for the Cleveland Indians.

Reuters - Former Universal Pictures chairman Stacey Snider might be sprung from her contract with the studio sooner rather than later and could assume her new post as co-chairman and CEO of DreamWorks in a couple of weeks.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Tucson, Arizona (AHN)—To once again confront the problem of illegal immigration, a controversial civilian border patrol group is planning a return to Arizona in two weeks. The original Minuteman Project conducted in April 2005 brought increased national...

AP - A family that disappeared more than two weeks ago after leaving for a short trip in an RV was found alive Tuesday in a remote area of southwestern Oregon.

AP - Six family members who disappeared more than two weeks ago after leaving in a recreational vehicle for a trip to the Oregon coast were found alive Tuesday in a remote area of southwestern Oregon, authorities said.