Lynndie England Update
WNCT - 1 hour ago A judge tossed out the plea deal. The judge says he was not convinced England knew her actions were wrong at the time she took part in the abuse of prisoners. Earlier Private Charles Graner, the so-called

Update 9: WTO Ministers Agree on Farm Deal
Forbes - 2 hours ago Trade ministers lifted a serious obstacle from the path to a much-delayed global trade deal on Wednesday, breaking a deadlock on agriculture tariffs that had pitted the European Union against influential trade powers like Brazil and Australia.

Dozens die in Kurdish city suicide blast
Telegraph.co.uk - 46 minutes ago By Oliver Poole in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed at least 46 people and wounded 150 in the Kurdish city of Irbil in an explosion that witnesses said turned a building packed with police recruits into a "slaughterhouse".

Pentagon aide charged with handing over Iran plans
Telegraph.co.uk - 47 minutes ago By Alec Russell in Washington. A Pentagon analyst with close links to senior neo-conservatives was arrested yesterday and charged with leaking classified plans to a pro-Israeli lobbying group. Larry Franklin

Brain injury fireman 'wakes up' after 10 years
Telegraph.co.uk - 47 minutes ago By Tom Leonard in New York. Medical science cannot explain why a brain-damaged fireman suddenly awoke from almost 10 years of semi-conscious silence and asked to talk to his wife, doctors said yesterday. Donald

Taking a Closer Look at Greenspan's Quarter-Point Rate Hike
CIO Today - 35 minutes ago Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues on the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee also stuck with a promise it has been making for the past year to nudge rates up "at a pace that is likely to be measured," a phrase that markets have

World awaits Iran's next move
Salon - 32 minutes ago By Charles J. Hanley. May 4, 2005 | United Nations -- As the world awaited Iran's next move on a nuclear chessboard, backroom talks dragged on here Wednesday to set an overdue agenda for a conference — already

Europe ready to review Iran nuclear proposals - Solana
Forbes - 35 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFX) - The European Union is ready to review new proposals from Iran on its controversial nuclear program if there are guarantees from Tehran that it is not trying to secure a nuclear weapon, the EU's Javier Solana said Wednesday.

House Bill Would Insure Up To $260,000 In Retirement Accounts
KOTV - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) _ While he's not winning many converts, President Bush's focus on Social Security does have more people thinking about their retirement nest eggs. Responding to a White House-endorsed trend

Former CIA Agent: al-Libbi Arrest 'Good Victory'
ABC News - 1 hour ago May 4, 2005 -- Former CIA operative Gary Schroen led the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Schoen, who has chronicled that mission in a new book, "First