Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 5 hours ago ROME, Italy -- Pressure is mounting on the Italian government from its own supporters to reconsider the country's military presence in Iraq after conflicting reports on the killing of an Italian agent by US soldiers.

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 9 hours ago (CBS/AP) The man whose jittery bride-to-be skipped town days before her lavish wedding and claimed she had been abducted says that his fiancée wants the "whole world to know she's very, very sorry.". John

British grow less unflinching on warfare
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago LONDON Election campaigns claim unforeseen casualties and, in Britain's case, one may be the ability of leaders to order troops to war at America's side with quite the same flair and quite the same sense of Churchillian rectitude as Tony Blair displayed

Bush presses Social Security plan
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Bush traveled to a Mississippi auto plant Tuesday to press his proposal to alter the way future Social Security retirement benefits would be calculated, while the White House signaled flexibility over the details of

Capitol Report
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve bungled its post-meeting statement on Tuesday, confusing everyone by inadvertently leaving out a key sentence on its inflation outlook. Before the Fed sheepishly

Iraq Cabinet Takes Office
Voice of America - 1 hour ago By Neil MacDonald. Iraq Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has been sworn in with 29 members of his cabinet, but the country's political impasse continues with key portfolios unfilled. Mr. Jaafari was nominated

CNN Access
CNN - May 2, 2005 (CNN) -- Teenagers Josh Long and Troy Driscoll survived six days on a 14-foot sailboat in shark-infested waters off the Atlantic Ocean without food or fresh water. The pair traveled more than 100 miles from

Rival aims for MCI assets
Financial Times - 6 hours ago By Paul Taylor in New York. Qwest Communications, the US telecommunications group that abandoned a three-month takeover battle for MCI this week, will press regulators to scrutinise industry mergers closely

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 3 hours ago UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iran's foreign minister said Tuesday that the country will press forward with its pursuit of "peaceful" nuclear technology, calling it an "unalienable right.". "It is unacceptable that

China warns Taiwan on 'separatist' actions
International Herald Tribune - 39 minutes ago BEIJING Chinese officials said Tuesday that Taiwan's governing party must scrap its party platform and stop its "separatist activities" before Beijing would talk with President Chen Shui-bian, dashing hopes that the recent thaw in relations would lead to