Text of Fed announcement raising key rate
BusinessWeek - 32 minutes ago MAY. 3 3:25 PM ET Following is the text of the Federal Reserve's announcement on Tuesday that it was increasing a key interest rate to 3 percent: The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 1 hour 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.

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

Iran vows to pursue nuke plans, slams US and Israel
ABC News - 1 hour 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.

Jury Selected in England Abuse Case
ABC News - 1 hour 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.

Myers: Iraq, Afghan Wars Strain Military
ABC News - 1 hour ago In Report, Gen. Myers Tells Congress That Iraq, Afghan Wars Have Strained US Fighting Ability. A US Army soldier gestures after a car bomb exploded in the Karadah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005

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 transitional government sworn in, seven posts undecided
Xinhua - 1 hour ago BAGHDAD, May 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's newly approved transitional cabinet was formally sworn in on Tuesday, after three months of haggling over the allocation of governmental posts following the Jan. 30 landmark parliamentary elections.

Qwest Has 1st-Qtr Profit of $57 Mln on Asset Sale (Update4)
Bloomberg - 1 hour 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.

China Courts Taiwanese With Pandas
ABC News - 1 hour 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.