Tuesday, May 03, 2005


Boys saved after six days at sea
Daily Times - 36 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

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

Father Tells Jilted Groom to Go Slowly
ABC News - 8 hours ago In this undated image taken from television and provided by FOX News Channel, John Mason is shown during an interview on FOX News. The jilted groom from Georgia whose bride-to-be ran away four days before

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

China Courts Taiwanese With Pandas
ABC News - 4 hours ago Taiwan's Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan waves to supporters after arriving from China via Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 3, 2005, in Taoyuan's Chiang kai-shek International Airport 40 kilometers (24 miles) south west of Taipei, Taiwan.

Bangladesh slams ‘kind of hell’ tag
Daily Times - 42 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”.

Partial Iraqi cabinet sworn in
Daily Times - 37 minutes ago BAGHDAD: Members of Iraq’s new cabinet, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, were sworn in on Tuesday. However, the crucial oil and defence ministers were still not named when the list was read out during the ceremony.

Air Force to Probe Intolerance Reports
Wired News - 27 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

Report on Calipari killing sparks withdrawal debate
Daily Star - Lebanon - 2 hours ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). ROME: Italy's diplomatic spat with the United States amid sharply differing accounts of the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by US troops has revived a debate over the withdrawal of Rome's 3,000 troops from Iraq.

Capitol Report
MarketWatch - 28 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