President Bush Touts His Social Security Plan At Nissan
WLBT-TV - 1 hour ago He only spent a little more than an hour in town, but President George W. Bush has made his mark on Mississippi. The President led a roundtable discussion on social security at the Nissan plant in Canton.

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 5 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.

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

Iraq swears in Shiite-majority government
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago BAGHDAD Iraq's new cabinet members were sworn into office Tuesday, allowing the country's first freely elected government to take power. But in a striking display of the divisions that plague the new government

Runaway Bride Planned Getaway
KPIX-TV 5 - 1 hour ago DULUTH, Ga. (AP) Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks was hardly acting impulsively when she vanished days before her lavish wedding. Authorities said Wilbanks purchased a bus ticket out of town a week in advance

Rival aims for MCI assets
Financial Times - 6 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

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

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.

Fed boosts rate target another quarter point to 3%
USA Today - 44 minutes 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.

Boys saved after six days at sea
Daily Times - 1 hour ago Two teenagers who drifted at sea for six days in a small sailing boat without food or water told Monday how they prayed to be rescued from the shark-infested waters of the Atlantic. Josh Long, 17, and Troy