Boys saved after six days at sea
Daily Times - 33 minutes ago Two teenagers who drifted at sea for six days in a small sailing boat without food or water told Monday how they prayed to be rescued from the shark-infested waters of the Atlantic. Josh Long, 17, and Troy

Air Force to Probe Intolerance Reports
Wired News - 24 minutes ago By ROBERT WELLER Associated Press Writer. DENVER (AP) -- A task force will investigate allegations of anti-Semitism and other reports of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy after cadets lodged dozens

Telecom Report Qwest goes back to drawing board
MarketWatch - 2 hours ago Having lost a high-stakes bidding war for MCI Inc., the Denver-based phone company must find other ways to grow its business, shrink costs and whittle down a heavy debtload, analysts say. If Qwest can achieve

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 2 hours ago CHINA opened a new round of panda diplomacy yesterday, offering a pair of the animals to Taiwan. But the gesture quickly became bogged down in a spat over whether state leaders rather than cuddly mammals should visit the island.

Capitol Report
MarketWatch - 25 minutes 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

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 8 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

Bangladesh slams ‘kind of hell’ tag
Daily Times - 39 minutes ago DHAKA: Bangladesh condemned as unfounded on Tuesday a report by the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters without Borders, which branded the country a “kind of hell” for journalists and the home minister a press freedom “predator”.

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 4 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.

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 2 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

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 2 hours ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). BAGHDAD: Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century was sworn in Tuesday, but the line-up remained incomplete as wrangling continued over the attribution of key portfolios to the minority Sunni Arabs.