Iraq Cabinet Takes Office
Voice of America - 2 hours ago By Neil MacDonald. Iraq Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has been sworn in with 29 members of his cabinet, but the country's political impasse continues with key portfolios unfilled. Mr. Jaafari was nominated

CNN Access
CNN - May 2, 2005 (CNN) -- Teenagers Josh Long and Troy Driscoll survived six days on a 14-foot sailboat in shark-infested waters off the Atlantic Ocean without food or fresh water. The pair traveled more than 100 miles from

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 6 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.

Rival aims for MCI assets
Financial Times - 7 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

Fed boosts rate target another quarter point to 3%
USA Today - 1 hour ago By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY. WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policymakers raised interest rates by a quarter-percentage-point to the highest level in 3½ years Tuesday and repeated that inflation pressures had risen in recent months.

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 3 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.

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 10 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

Bush presses Social Security plan
MarketWatch - 2 hours ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Bush traveled to a Mississippi auto plant Tuesday to press his proposal to alter the way future Social Security retirement benefits would be calculated, while the White House signaled flexibility over the details of

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 3 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

Report: Philippines Most Dangerous Place to be a Journalist
Voice of America - 3 hours ago By Heda Bayron. The Philippines is the most deadly place for journalists to work according to a new report issued on global Press Freedom Day. The group, Reporters Without Borders says 52 journalists have been