Bush Says Retirement Plan Will Prevent Poverty
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - 1 hour ago By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer. CANTON, Miss. — President Bush traveled to one of the country's poorest regions today to assure Americans that the Social Security restructuring plan he has in mind would

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 35 minutes 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

FOREX-Dollar slips after US rate hike, Fed clarification
FXstreet.com - 29 minutes ago By Gertrude Chavez. NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - The dollar slipped broadly on Tuesday in choppy trading, after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected, and subsequently clarified more than an

China Courts Taiwanese With Pandas
ABC News - 2 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.

Terrorist Morale In Trouble
CBS News - 29 minutes ago (AP) The US military released on Tuesday a letter it believes was addressed to terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from an underling complaining that incompetence of leaders in his al Qaeda in Iraq network is hurting morale among his fighters.

Father Tells Jilted Groom to Go Slowly
ABC News - 7 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

Rival aims for MCI assets
Financial Times - 4 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

Jafaari completes his government by including Sunni Arabs
Arabic News - 41 minutes ago The Iraqi interim Prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari completed the formation of his government by including representatives for the Arab Sunni who pulled out several days ago from the government under the pretext that they have low profile in it.

Chirac: French 'No' to EU treaty would damage France
Reuters.uk - 1 hour ago By Jon Boyle and Paul Carrel. PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac, buoyed by surging support for the EU constitution, warned voters on Tuesday rejecting the charter would hurt French interests and set back 50 years of European development.

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 2 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.