Buffett Says Chastened Insurers Are Making Changes
New York Times - 43 minutes ago By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN. OMAHA, May 1 - Warren E. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said here Sunday that insurers had been "sensitized" by disclosures of unseemly practices and financial manipulation

S. Korea Downplays N. Korea Missile Test
ABC News - 27 minutes ago A South Korean police officer looks at North Korea's Scud-B missile, center green, and other South Korea's missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, in this March 10, 2003 file photo. The

Australia won't give in to kidnappers in Iraq: Howard
Xinhua - 1 hour ago CANBERRA, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday that he had been dreading the day an Australian was taken hostage in Iraq, but insisting that Australiawon't give in to the kidnappers.

Jennifer Wilbanks Home With Family
WXIA-TV - 2 hours ago She was suppose to be on her honeymoon. However Jennifer Wilbanks' life is no vacation. The Duluth resident is back home with her family after being missing for four days. She was missing since Tuesday when

Violence surges on in Iraq
Xinhua - 1 hour ago BEIJING, May 2 --Insurgents have launched a third straight day of attacks in Iraq, killing at least ten Iraqis and wounding more than 20. A car bomb blast detonated near a US military convoy in western Baghdad

Police arrest 200 over Cairo attacks
Financial Times - 1 hour ago By Heba Saleh. Police in Egypt have arrested and brought in for questioning about 200 people from the slum areas north of Cairo that are home to the families of suspected Islamic militants implicated in two attacks against tourists at the weekend.

Desperate White House Wife, Episode 1: The Ranch Hand
New York Times - 1 hour ago When Laura Bush wisecracked at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night that she was a "desperate housewife" married to a president who was always sound asleep by 9 pm, the popular first lady accomplished two things.

Bush's Social Security Twist
Christian Science Monitor - 5 hours ago Two months of touting personal retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security haven't done much for President Bush's attempt to reform the New Deal program. That's because his idea didn't really

Purcell Hangs On
Forbes - 59 minutes ago NEW YORK - Philip Purcell held on as Morgan Stanley's chief executive over the weekend, when the firm's board of directors reaffirmed its commitment to him and elected to keep the company intact. But the embattled

Iran Plans Defense of Nuclear Program
Washington Post - 54 minutes ago By Dafna Linzer. Iran is planning to mount a staunch defense of its nuclear energy program at an international conference beginning today and will insist on rights to the same technology afforded to all members