Not-Guilty Plea Entered for BTK Suspect
ABC News - 3 hours ago Dennis Rader, charged with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita since the 1970s, is led from Sedgwick County court in Wichita, Kan., Tuesday, May 3, 2005, after his arraignment.

Florida Drops Effort to Block Abortion for 13-Year-Old
New York Times - 45 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.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a Success, But Faces Key
Voice of America - 51 minutes ago By Andre de Nesnera. Treaty, or NPT, the legal cornerstone of non-proliferation efforts. Three countries: India, Pakistan and Israel, have not signed the treaty and a fourth, North Korea, has withdrawn from it.

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.

Togo court confirms Gnassingbe as new president
Swissinfo - 38 minutes ago By John Zodzi. LOME (Reuters) - Togo's constitutional court confirmed Faure Gnassingbe on Tuesday as the winner of last month's disputed presidential election, which triggered days of riots in which about 100 people were killed.

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 33 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.

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 6 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

Qwest Reports First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Edges Down
NewsFactor Network - 1 hour ago Analyst Anna Maria Kovacs of Regulatory Source Associates expects Qwest to demand that the merging companies divest assets before combining -- and then to capitalize by snapping up divested local facilities to feed its long-distance network.

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.

Federal funds interest rate target raised to 3 percent
Denver Business Journal - 26 minutes ago The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Tuesday raised the targeted interest rate for federal funds by a quarter of a percentage point to 3 percent. The federal funds rate is the interest rate charged by