Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 56 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 - 7 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

Telecom Report Qwest goes back to drawing board
MarketWatch - 46 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

Chirac seeks to capitalise on rally in Yes fortunes
Financial Times - 44 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.

UPDATE 4-Fed raises US rates, keeps measured vow
Reuters - 20 minutes ago By Glenn Somerville. WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - The US Federal Reserve nudged interest rates up on Tuesday for an eighth straight time and repeated a pledge to use "measured" increases to quell an increase in inflation.

Iran vows to pursue nuke technology
CNN International - 39 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

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.

Terrorist Morale In Trouble
CBS News - 33 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.

Bush Pitches Retirement Plan to Workers
ABC News - 24 minutes ago Bush Pitches Remodeled Social Security Plan to Blue-Collar Workers at Auto Plant in Canton, Miss. President Bush, right, helps DeLois Killen, left, off her chair after speaking at the Nissan North America

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 45 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.