First Lady Steals the Show
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - 41 minutes ago Laura Bush pokes fun at her husband and draws big laughs at a White House dinner. By Leslie Hoffecker, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON — It isn't often that the president of the United States gets upstaged.

Buyout firms acquiring stores for $5 billion
Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago Neiman Marcus, the luxury retail chain, has agreed to be sold for about $5 billion to a group of financiers with a history in the retail industry, executives close to the negotiations said Sunday. Neiman, known

Social Security 'nerd' earns Bush's attention
USA Today - 1 hour ago By John Waggoner, USA TODAY. Robert Pozen isn't the kind of guy you'd normally expect to get a nod from President Bush at a national press conference. Pozen, 58, is chairman, since last year, of MFS Investment

Australia: No Negotiation With Terrorists
FOX News - 1 hour ago SYDNEY, Australia — Australia's (search) leader said Monday he won't bow to kidnappers' demands for the country to withdraw troops from Iraq (search) despite a videotape showing an Australian man appealing at gunpoint for US-led forces to leave the

North Korea fires short-range missile
ISN - 1 hour ago ISN SECURITY WATCH (02/05/05) - While trading insults with the US, North Korea reportedly tested a short-range missile in the Sea of Japan on Sunday, Japanese media reports claimed. Japanese news agencies, radio

AIG delays annual report again
MarketWatch - 4 hours ago OMAHA (MarketWatch) -- American International Group delayed its annual report for a second time late Sunday and said that accounting errors and other problems will wipe $2.7 billion, or 3.3%, off its net worth.

England to plead guilty in Abu Ghraib scandal
CNN - 1 hour ago (CNN) -- Pfc. Lynndie England -- a central figure in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal -- will plead guilty to reduced charges Monday for her alleged role in abusing Iraqi detainees, a spokesman at Fort Hood, Texas, says.

Egyptians Round Up 200 After Tourist Attacks
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - 48 minutes ago CAIRO — Egyptian police detained 200 people over the weekend for questioning in two assaults on foreign tourists and were hunting for one attacker's brother, security sources said Sunday. Police rounded

Pakistan to sign NPT only after recognition as nuclear-state
Xinhua - 2 hours ago ISLAMABAD, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- In response to a renewed Japanese demand for signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Pakistan said on Sunday it would join the global NPT only after its recognition as a nuclear state, the local news paper The Nation

Found runaway bride may have broken law
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 1 hour ago By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. DULUTH, Ga. - Officials say Jennifer Wilbanks' cold feet may have gotten her in hot water. On Sunday, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter vowed to look into whether the 32