Two Veiled Women Shoot Cairo Tour Bus
ABC News - 5 hours ago Egyptian soldiers surround the site where two women opened fire at a tour bus and at least one of them was shot dead by area guards, in Cairo, Saturday, April 30, 2005, two hours after a primitive bomb blast near the Egyptian museum in Cairo.

Social Security: Help for the Poor or Help for All
New York Times - 2 hours ago WASHINGTON, April 30 - In attempting to fix Social Security's long-term problems without raising taxes, President Bush has chosen to recast the 70-year-old retirement program as one that would keep the lowest-income workers out of poverty but become

Insurgents Kill 11 in New Attacks in Iraq
ABC News - 8 hours ago Iraqi men attend the scene after a car bomb exploded outside a building holding a meeting of senior Sunni leaders from the Council on National Dialogue, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 30, 2005. According

Ex-Hostage's Italian Driver Ignored Warning, US Says
New York Times - 4 hours ago BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 30 - The car carrying the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena that was struck with a deadly hail of gunfire as it sped toward Baghdad International Airport on March 4 ignored warnings from American soldiers who used a floodlight, a

US 'Leash Girl' soldier wins plea bargain over Abu Ghraib abuses
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago By Philip Sherwell in Washington. Lynndie England, the gloating face of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, has agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges in return for a shorter jail term when her court martial begins tomorrow.

US Economic growth weakest in two years
Boersenreport - 4 hours ago The US economy grew at its softest pace in two years during the first quarter 2005, slowing to a slowing down 3.1 percent annual rate of expansion as consumers and businesses curbed spending in the face of rising oil and raw material prices, the Commerce

For Buffett, the One That Got Away
New York Times - 1 hour ago By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN. TOMORROW morning, Warren E. Buffett and his board will gather in Omaha to consider the merits of three executives he considers likely to succeed him one day as Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive.

Vietnamese mark 30 years since end of war
CTV - 56 minutes ago Tens of thousands turned out in Vietnam for celebrations, marking the 30th anniversary of the communist victory over a US-backed regime Saturday. Military bands and soldiers paraded down the same boulevard the tanks drove down thirty years ago.

Taiwan Opposition Leader Returns to China
ABC News - 2 hours ago A Chinese man holds up a banner with the words "Lien Chan we welcome you" as the Taiwanese Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan, right walks by as he arrives at the airport in Xi'an, western China, Saturday, April 30, 2005.

Missing bride found in New Mexico is back in Atlanta
Access North Georgia - 51 minutes ago The missing Georgia bride-to-be who turned up on a seedy stretch of Route 66 in New Mexico arrived back in Atlanta Saturday night. Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, landed at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International