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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dish Network and Disney have reached a landmark deal that envisions the day when Dish will offer a Netflix-like TV service to people who'd rather stream TV over the Internet than put a satellite receiver on their roof.
• The deal announced late Monday paves the way for Dish to offer live local broadcasts from ABC TV stations and programming from ABC Family, Disney Channel, ESPN and ESPN2 over mobile devices, set-top boxes and other means, similar to how Netflix's video streams are delivered today.
• No start date for such a service was announced. It is likely that Dish will have to cut similar deals with other programmers to make such a service attractive. A Dish spokesman refused to speculate on what the offering would cost.
• As part of the new rights deal, Dish Network Corp. agreed to disable -- for three days after the initial broadcast -- a function on its Hopper digital video recorders that allows people to automatically record and strip out commercials from prime-time weeknight programming. But that's only for programs on ABC, which is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
• Dish CEO Joseph Clayton said in a statement the deal was "about predicting the future of television."
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• KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Litterbugs are no longer welcome on the roof of the world.
• As Nepal welcomes this year's trekking season on Mount Everest, it is introducing new rules and oversight this week in hopes of taking more control over the world's tallest mountain. The rules, including a demand that climbers bring down their own trash, are aimed at making the mountain safer -- and cleaner, officials said.
• If the hundreds of Western climbers each year clean up after themselves, "we can be assured that no new garbage will be added," said Kapindra Rai of the mountain's pollution control committee.
• But what of the trash that's already up there? Tons of crumpled food wrappers,

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