Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture and Foods Valery Tsvetanov has been an agent of the Communist State Security Services, as announced by the Records Commission Thursday.

Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. It's a dreary time for Bay Area venture capitalists. Investments are slowing and exits are stalled.

Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against UBS AG , accusing the Swiss bank of deceptively steering customers into auction-rate securities that this year became impossible to cash out of amid the credit crunch.

Reuters - Toy maker Hasbro Inc said on Thursday it filed a suit against the creators of the online game Scrabulous, saying it infringes Hasbro's Scrabble intellectual property rights.

AP - Caleb Campbell said he was upset when the Army told him he wouldn't be able to play for the Detroit Lions this season.

Management consultancy Accenture Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda) has conducted a study that estimates that 7.34 billion euros (about $11.5 billion) was spent in Europe in 2007 to re-box, restock and resell returned electronics goods. This compares with $13.8 billion spent to do the same task in the United States.

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System software used to route messages between computers on the Internet.

PC World - China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market, with 253 million total users by the end of June.

CHAMPAIGN - A bevy of Jayhawks descended on Champaign County this week, and like the Blues Brothers, they're on a mission from God - sort of. The youth group from Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kan., is on a weeklong mission to spruce up shelters and generally help out at eight nonprofit agencies in the county. The 60 teens and 30 adults are grouped into eight work teams ...

AP - Jimmy Rollins was scratched from the Philadelphia Phillies' lineup for their game against the New York Mets on Thursday.