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Among the questions investors now face: How much rally is left in cotton since skyrocketing 171% already in a year? Among the variables to consider are weather, demand and how much more land gets devoted to cotton. Analysts point to better and worse ways to play this commodity.

Looking good isn't going to get any cheaper. Clothing makers plan to raise prices in 2011 as they struggle to absorb the impact of soaring cotton costs, The Wall Street Journal reported. It cites companies including Hanesbrands, Jones Group and VF as planing to raise prices by as much as 10%....

The United Arab Emirates will not suspend BlackBerry services next week as threatened. The UAE and Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion have resolved their dispute over access to email and other data.

The floods in Pakistan caused 250 billion rupees ($2.9 billion) of damage to crops such as sugar cane, cotton and rice. The waters destroyed 700,000 acres of planted cotton and 200,000 acres each of rice and sugar cane, Mohammed Ibrahim Moghul, chairman of farmers' group Agri Forum Pakistan, told...

Pakistan plans to monitor Google and its YouTube site, as well as Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft's MSN, Hotmail and Bing for anti-Islamic content, saying it will block links to certain content on those sites if it deems it necessary.

Americans' trust in the press has been slipping for years. Will the disclosure that some 40 news organizations cooperated in hushing up the kidnapping of a New York Times reporter by Taliban militants damage it still further? Or will it help to reverse the trend? Both, probably. The Times revealed...