Neiman Marcus gets three buyout bids
USA Today - 1 hour ago By Lorrie Grant, USA TODAY. Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group (NMGA) is mulling takeover bids from three groups of investors, according to sources who have been briefed on these offers. By Friday's deadline

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

AIG to restate, slashing net worth
CNN International - 2 hours ago NEW YORK (Reuters) -- American International Group Inc. said on Sunday it will restate financial reports for much of the last five years, due mainly to accounting errors that will slash about $2.7 billion from its net worth.

Laura Bush scoops the correspondents at dinner
Washington Times - 2 hours ago By Stephanie Mansfield. The Washington political correspondents had been waiting for Laura Bush to let down her hair, as Nancy Reagan did when she spoofed her designer-mad image with a rendition of "Second Hand Rose" at a Gridiron Dinner two decades ago.

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

Runaway bride-to-be could face charges
Boston Globe - 1 hour ago By Associated Press | May 2, 2005. DULUTH, Ga. -- A prosecutor said yesterday that he wants to review whether the runaway bride-to-be who conceded that she made up a kidnapping story should be charged for making false statements to the police.

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.