Morgan Stanley fails to silence rebel campaign over Purcell
Independent - 48 minutes ago By Katherine Griffiths in New York. Former executives at Morgan Stanley have refused to call off their campaign to oust the investment banking giant's chief executive Philip Purcell, despite concessions from the board.

Verizon looks like MCI winner
News-Leader.com - 40 minutes ago By Jon Van. Chicago — After more than two months of offers and counteroffers, Verizon Communications Inc. appears to have secured a deal to buy MCI Inc. as Qwest Communications International Inc. dropped out of the competition.

Rice: US Can Deter North Korean Nuclear Ambitions
Voice of America - 5 hours ago By Meredith Buel. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a tough statement aimed at North Korea, says the United States has significant deterrent capability to thwart Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Secretary

Hostage crisis: Aus seeks UN help
NDTV.com - 47 minutes ago Australia's Foreign Minister asked the UN Secretary General for help on Monday in securing the release of an Australian citizen being held hostage in Iraq. Alexander Downer's meeting with Kofi Annan came as

Stand up. Tongue update. Time travelers.
Houston Chronicle - 6 hours ago By KYRIE O'CONNOR. 1. I was, I confess, slightly disconcerted by Laura Bush's stand-up act at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night. Now, I'm thrilled she'd have the gumption to take on that

Sharansky quits over Israel's pullout plan
Cape Times (subscription) - 1 hour ago By Dan Williams. Jerusalem: Right-wing Israeli cabinet member Natan Sharansky has resigned in protest at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's planned withdrawal from Gaza, a sign of widening internal rifts before the pullout.

Annan calls for nuclear disarmament
Xinhua - 27 minutes ago BEIJING, May 3 --UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has challenged world leaders to breathe life into a key nuclear disarmament treaty. Annan opened a month-long conference on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in New York on Monday.

Georgia City May Want Bride to Pay
New York Times - 1 hour ago DULUTH, Ga., May 2 - The runaway bride-to-be who led this Atlanta suburb on an expensive game of hide-and-seek last week may face charges after all, the authorities said, and the city was investigating whether to bill her for the search.

Killing of Italian agent by US soldiers not deliberate: Italy
Xinhua - 1 hour ago ROME, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad by US soldiers was not deliberate, but as a result of stress, inexperience, fatigue and a lack of rules among the US troops, said the Italian Foreign Ministry on Monday

Army private pleads guilty to abuse charges from Abu Ghraib
Kansas City Star - 20 minutes ago BY STEPHEN J. HEDGES. WASHINGTON - (KRT) - US Army Pvt. Lynndie England, whose photographed poses created lasting images of the prisoner abuse in Iraq, pleaded guilty Monday to charges that she mistreated detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.