Telecom Report Qwest goes back to drawing board
MarketWatch - 1 hour 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

How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan
Times Online - 1 hour 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.

States wrangle over right to nuclear technology
Reuters India - 1 hour ago By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - At the heart of this month's United Nations nuclear non-proliferation conference is a fundamental question: Do countries have an unambiguous right to peaceful nuclear energy

Bangladesh slams ‘kind of hell’ tag
Daily Times - 29 minutes ago DHAKA: Bangladesh condemned as unfounded on Tuesday a report by the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters without Borders, which branded the country a “kind of hell” for journalists and the home minister a press freedom “predator”.

Report on Calipari killing sparks withdrawal debate
Daily Star - Lebanon - 1 hour ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). ROME: Italy's diplomatic spat with the United States amid sharply differing accounts of the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by US troops has revived a debate over the withdrawal of Rome's 3,000 troops from Iraq.

Jilted Groom: I Still Want Her
CBS News - 8 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

Air Force Panel To Look Into Religion Issues At Academy
TheDenverChannel.com - 46 minutes ago DENVER -- The Air Force will set up a task force to investigate allegations of religious intolerance on the Air Force Academy campus near Colorado Springs. The academy says it first learned of the claims from a cadet survey that included 55 complaints.

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 2 hours 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.

Criticism follows miracle rescue
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 18 hours ago By Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post. The Coast Guard is hearing it from relatives of two teen-age boys rescued off the North Carolina coast Saturday after six days adrift in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water.

Fed Boosts Key Rate a Quarter-Point
ABC News - 2 hours ago Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appears before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday, April 6, 2005. At its meeting Tuesday, May 3, 2005,the Fed is poised