S. Korea Downplays N. Korea Missile Test
ABC News - 20 minutes ago A South Korean police officer looks at North Korea's Scud-B missile, center green, and other South Korea's missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, in this March 10, 2003 file photo. The

Bush's Social Security Twist
Christian Science Monitor - 5 hours ago Two months of touting personal retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security haven't done much for President Bush's attempt to reform the New Deal program. That's because his idea didn't really

Iran Plans Defense of Nuclear Program
Washington Post - 47 minutes ago By Dafna Linzer. Iran is planning to mount a staunch defense of its nuclear energy program at an international conference beginning today and will insist on rights to the same technology afforded to all members

Giant Insurer Finds $1 Billion More in Flaws
New York Times - 37 minutes ago The American International Group, the embattled insurance giant, said last night that an in-depth examination of its operations had turned up additional accounting improprieties going back to 2000 that would reduce its net worth by $2.7 billion, or $1

Jennifer Wilbanks Home With Family
WXIA-TV - 2 hours ago She was suppose to be on her honeymoon. However Jennifer Wilbanks' life is no vacation. The Duluth resident is back home with her family after being missing for four days. She was missing since Tuesday when

Australia won't give in to kidnappers in Iraq: Howard
Xinhua - 1 hour ago CANBERRA, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday that he had been dreading the day an Australian was taken hostage in Iraq, but insisting that Australiawon't give in to the kidnappers.

Berkshire board to look at possibility of dividend
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - 23 minutes ago OMAHA, Neb. – The board of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will meet today to discuss the possibility of paying a dividend for the first time in the company's history. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the company's

Police arrest 200 over Cairo attacks
Financial Times - 1 hour ago By Heba Saleh. Police in Egypt have arrested and brought in for questioning about 200 people from the slum areas north of Cairo that are home to the families of suspected Islamic militants implicated in two attacks against tourists at the weekend.

Laura Bush: Take my husband
USA Today - 2 hours ago By Csar G. Soriano, USA TODAY. WASHINGTON — Who would have thought a member of the Bush family could be so funny — on purpose By Evan Vucci, AP. First Lady Laura Bush had them rolling in the aisles Saturday

Violence surges on in Iraq
Xinhua - 1 hour ago BEIJING, May 2 --Insurgents have launched a third straight day of attacks in Iraq, killing at least ten Iraqis and wounding more than 20. A car bomb blast detonated near a US military convoy in western Baghdad