Toshiba: Recalled Battery Sparked Fire

June 19, 2007 By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- A Toshiba Corp. laptop with a recalled Sony battery pack that hadn't been replaced burst into flames last month in Great Britain.

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