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

Chirac seeks to capitalise on rally in Yes fortunes
Financial Times - 31 minutes ago By Martin Arnold in Paris. Jacques Chirac, French president, on Tuesday night sought to capitalise on a swing in public opinion in favour of Europe's proposed constitution by making a second televised appeal for a Yes vote in this month's referendum.

Terrorist Morale In Trouble
CBS News - 20 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.

Telecom Report Qwest goes back to drawing board
MarketWatch - 33 minutes 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

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 43 minutes 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.

Fed Raises Target Rate to 3%, Keeps `Measured Pace' (Update2)
Bloomberg - 33 minutes ago May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers raised the benchmark US interest rate a quarter-point to 3 percent and restated a plan to carry out further increases at a ``measured'' pace to head off faster inflation.

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 32 minutes 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.

Florida Drops Effort to Block Abortion for 13-Year-Old
New York Times - 55 minutes ago MIMI, May 2 - The state of Florida abandoned today its efforts to keep a pregnant 13-year-old girl from having an abortion, a day after a circuit court judge ruled that the teenager, who is in state custody, had a right to end her pregnancy.

Report on Calipari killing sparks withdrawal debate
Daily Star - Lebanon - 33 minutes 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.

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 26 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