Minimalist message leaves Fed a bit red
Seattle Times - 26 minutes ago By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON — No government agency is more careful about the statements it releases than the Federal Reserve, where a single word can move financial markets. But it made a goof yesterday, dropping a key sentence on inflation.

Florida's tough stand against child molesters
Christian Science Monitor - 11 hours ago By Richard Luscombe | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. MIAMI – When convicted sex offender John Couey fled to Georgia in February after allegedly kidnapping, raping, and killing nine-year-old

Iraqi Gov't Sworn in Amid Wave of Violence
ABC News - 1 hour ago Picture released by the US Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a US Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul, 360 km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005.

Suicide bomber kills 60 in Kurdish city
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - 18 minutes ago A suicide bomber killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 more when he blew himself up at the office of a Kurdish party in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil on Wednesday, a health official said. The bomber

Oil holds below $50 on high US stocks
Reuters - 49 minutes ago By Joanne Collins. MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices held under $50 a barrel on Wednesday, ahead of data expected to show a sustained rise in crude stocks in the United States and as OPEC cranked up production.

Court martial hears how Iraq prisoners humiliated
Times Online - 55 minutes ago By Simon Freeman, Times Online. A US court martial to decide the prison sentence for Private Lynndie England, who has admitted abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention centre in Iraq, heard how she laughed

Men seethe over scorned groom
Kansas City Star - 1 hour ago By MARK SCHWED. Men, who usually don't get consumed by weddings, have strong feelings about the runaway bride. As of Tuesday Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, hadn't publicly apologized for temporarily turning her fiance into the next Scott Peterson.

US commander: Military unable to win new wars
Xinhua - 3 hours ago BEIJING, May 4 --A leaked classified report shows the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told congress that the US military may not be able to win any new wars as quickly as planned. A senior defence official

Iran lashes out at nuclear summit
Seattle Times - 56 minutes ago By Seattle Times news services. UNITED NATIONS — A defiant Iran said yesterday that it is determined to hold on to all of its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, and lashed out at the United States for trying to limit its efforts.

China offers pandas, not talks, to Taiwan
Seattle Times - 49 minutes ago After making the symbolic gesture of offering Taiwan two pandas, the Chinese government turned aside the idea of opening an official dialogue with the island yesterday, the day Taiwanese Nationalist party leader Lien Chan ended a historic mainland visit.