Brain-damaged firefighter speaks after ten years
Times Online - 4 hours ago By Louisa McLennan, Times Online, and AP. After nearly ten years’ silence, a severely brain-damaged man has confounded doctors by asking for his wife. Donald Herbert, a firefighter in Buffalo, New York, was badly injured in a house fire in December 1995.

Most Americans say Iraq war not worth it: poll
CTV - 39 minutes ago As the US military death toll continues to rise in Iraq, support for the war is waning among Americans, a national poll finds. The national survey conducted last week found support for the war is at its lowest level since the US-led invasion in 2003.

British Politics Dives Into the Web
Washington Post - 57 minutes ago By Robert MacMillan. Great Britain's three main political parties made a big effort to revamp their Internet operations in time for the 2005 campaign not that it will make a single bit of difference in how the elections turn out.

Guilty plea in question at Iraq prison abuse trial
Reuters AlertNet - 17 minutes ago By Adam Tanner. FORT HOOD, Texas, May 4 (Reuters) - A military court deciding the sentence for a key defendant in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal was interrupted on Wednesday after the judge questioned the validity of the guilty plea. Judge Col.

Suspected Qaeda Chief in Pakistan Is Captured
New York Times - 1 hour ago By SALMAN MASOOD. ISLAMABAD, May 4 - Pakistani authorities said today they had arrested a senior Al Qaeda operative suspected of orchestrating two assassination attempts against the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Long and Short: Things seem so grim, it must be time to buy stocks
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 43 minutes ago By Jesse Eisinger, The Wall Street Journal. The economy is slowing, real wage growth is nowhere to be seen, the consumer is finally rolling over and the Fed needs to raise rates to fight inflation. Yep, it's time to buy stocks.

Bush Calls Berlusconi Over Agent Shooting
ABC News - 31 minutes ago President Bush arrives on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday, May 3, 2005. He had just returned from a trip to Canton, Miss. for a talk on Social Security reform. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). By ALESSANDRA RIZZO Associated Press Writer.

Stocks climb on GM stake offer, oil prices
BusinessWeek - 27 minutes ago MAY. 4 11:14 AM ET Stocks skipped higher Wednesday as rising fuel supplies sent the price of crude lower, and investors were emboldened by decent earnings, a handful of mergers and billionaire investor Kirk

Bomber Kills 50 at Iraqi Police Center
Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago By YAHYA BARZANJI. IRBIL, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi carrying hidden explosives detonated them outside a police recruitment center where people were applying for jobs Wednesday, killing about 50 Iraqis and wounding

Iraqis hope to fully replace US troops by end-2006 - Iraq defence
Forbes - 18 minutes ago BAGHDAD (AFX) - The Iraqi army will fully replace US-led coalition forces in the country by early 2007, once it has enough experience, Bruska Shaways, the director general of the Iraqi defence ministry said.