Their helicopters buzz through the Baghdad sky, their patrols bristle with the latest weaponry and their armored vehicles carry the latest hi-tech gadgets.
The review of all security companies in the country comes after a shooting incident involving guards from the U.S. firm Blackwater.
Gold hit a 16-month high above $700 per ounce on Friday, boosted by a falling dollar after U.S. data showing a surprise contraction in U.S. non-farm payrolls for the first time in four years.
Gold changed course to trade higher on Wednesday, but investors remained cautious because of weaker equities and fears about the global economy.
Gold slipped with stock markets and other commodities on Tuesday as fears about the effect of a global credit squeezed lingered, analysts said.
U.S.-financed China Public Security Technology will provide software that links to at least 20,000 police surveillance cameras being installed along streets in southern China, according to the New York Times on Sunday.
Internet companies, retailers and the government must do far more to protect people from the dangers of the lawless Wild West of cyberspace, an influential group of British Members of Parliament said on Friday.
Gold drifted lower on Tuesday as the dollar broadly gained ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting and accompanying statement.
Nepal faces security problems and food shortages in the critical period before elections in November aimed at sealing peace after a decade-long Maoist rebellion, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
As many U.S. cities and states arrest illegal immigrants in raids and toughen laws against them, a Connecticut city is offering to validate them under a controversial, first-in-the-nation ID card program.
Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said.
Gold was steady on Friday ahead of the release of U.S. payrolls data, while Tokyo futures shed the previous day's gains to track losses in New York.
Police were holding eight people on Tuesday, at least four of them foreign doctors, over a suspected al Qaeda plot against Britain that has triggered a manhunt stretching as far as Australia.
A four-wheel-drive vehicle crashed into the main terminal at Glasgow airport on Saturday and exploded in flames, a day after police foiled a possible al Qaeda plot to detonate two car bombs in central London.
Kuwaiti logistics provider Agility said on Saturday it was part of a group with U.S. firm Dyncorp International which won a $50 billion deal from the U.S. military.
The head of U.S. Air Force intelligence and surveillance on Thursday said data available commercially through online mapping software such as Google Earth posed a danger to security but could not be rolled back.
Gold drifted higher on Thursday on bargain hunting after a three-month low the previous day, but analysts said the metal had potential to test fresh lows.
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said that it is investigating a flaw in its Microsoft Word 2000 word processor that may allow remote users with malicious intent to take control of a user's computer.
Microsoft's email and planning software Outlook 2003 has a vulnerability that can allow a malicious takeover of a users' computer and data, said a network security firm Tuesday.
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today plans to acquire IronPort Systems Inc., a provider of e-mail, Web, and security management appliances, for about $830 million in cash and stock.
The German Chancellor urged security and trade co-work ahead of her nation's EU presidency.
President George Bush signed a new border protections bill into law on Friday which will establish a $400 million security grant program and regulate products entering and leaving the US. An unrelated provision also strengthens laws that in effect ban most types of online gambling.