Qwest Has 1st-Qtr Profit of $57 Mln on Asset Sale (Update4)
Bloomberg - 48 minutes ago May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Qwest Communications International Inc., which yesterday scrapped a takeover bid for MCI Inc., had a first-quarter profit of $57 million because of an asset-sale gain. Sales declined as subscribers canceled local lines.

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 5 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

Berlusconi's US relationship becomes less special
Reuters - 2 hours ago By Phil Stewart. ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, long proud of having friends in high places, has seen the limitations of his rapport with Washington after a public falling-out over the killing of an Italian agent in Iraq.

Not-Guilty Plea Entered for BTK Suspect
ABC News - 2 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.

Iraqi Cabinet Sworn In, as New Fighting Is Reported Near Syria
New York Times - 1 hour ago BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 3 - Iraq's first fully and freely elected government was formally sworn in today, setting up a Shiite-majority leadership that must try to forge unity in the country as it deals with a surge in violence.

Jury Selected in England Abuse Case
ABC News - 32 minutes ago Jury Selected in Sentencing Phase for Pfc. England, a Day After Guilty Plea for Iraqi Abuse. Army Pfc. Lynndie R. England, center, arrives with members of her defense team for day two of her court martial at Fort Hood, Texas, Tuesday, May 3, 2005.

Iran vows to pursue nuke plans, slams US and Israel
ABC News - 27 minutes ago Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Kamal Kharrazi addresses the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the General Assembly hall at United Nations headquarters in New York, May 3, 2005.

Laura Bush: First Lady Of Comedy
Bayou Buzz - 4 hours ago First Lady Laura Bush brought down the house at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington DC this weekend. She kidded her husband about his early bedtime and said she watched “Desperate Housewives”.

China Courts Taiwanese With Pandas
ABC News - 39 minutes 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.

Text of FOMC statement
MarketWatch - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Here is the statement released by the Federal Open Market Committee on Tuesday after it raised short-term rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 3%. "The Federal Open Market