Credit Cards Travel Troubles (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News) Its hard to beat a trip to Europe. You get scenery, history, different cuisines, museums, shopping, new friends to make, and more. Your trip can quickly become a bummer, though, if the credit card you brought with you keeps getting rejected.

The 23-hour lock-up Comment is free: Erwin James: Cuts forcing prisoners to stay in their cells all day will make it harder for them to rejoin society

Call of Duty 4 Hardware Performance Guide Find out how Call of Duty 4 runs on our stable of hardware and what we did to improve frame rates.

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Analyst: Small Wii supply costing Nintendo big Industry watcher says console makers inability to keep up with demand is costing $1.3 billion in hardware sales alone.

Q & A with Hekki Kovalainen After months of speculation, Finish driver Hekki Kovalinen has signed a long term deal with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes formula one team. The 26 year old will replace the Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who left the team after just a year with the Woking based team. Hekki took place in a question and answer session, shortly after been signed as McLarens new driver.

Hekki Joins McLaren in 2008 The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is pleased to confirm that Finn Heikki Kovalainen will team up with Formula 1 World Championship runner-up Lewis Hamilton for the 2008 season. Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa will remain the third driver and an integral part of the team, whilst Gary Paffett will assist Pedro with the testing programme when required.

A safer barrier Its an unavoidable fact of oval racing: there is a wall all around the outside of the track. Its there to protect the fans from the cars, but the price for that protection has often been paid in careers - and sometimes lives - ruined for drivers unfortunate enough to hit the wall at speed.