Qwest Reports First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Edges Down
NewsFactor Network - 1 hour ago Analyst Anna Maria Kovacs of Regulatory Source Associates expects Qwest to demand that the merging companies divest assets before combining -- and then to capitalize by snapping up divested local facilities to feed its long-distance network.

Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq
CNN International - 2 hours 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 - 6 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

US presses Iran demand
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - 10 hours ago By David E. Sanger. NEW YORK -- The gulf between Iran and the US widened considerably Monday when the Bush administration, at the opening of a conference on the future of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Partial Iraqi Cabinet takes power
Daily Star - Lebanon - 37 minutes ago By Agence France Presse (AFP). BAGHDAD: Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century was sworn in Tuesday, but the line-up remained incomplete as wrangling continued over the attribution of key portfolios to the minority Sunni Arabs.

Stocks Finish Mixed After Fed Raises Rate
Forbes - 53 minutes ago Stocks stumbled to a mixed finish Tuesday as the Federal Reserve kept to its policy of gradual interest rate hikes but signaled increased concerns about inflation. According to preliminary calculations, the

China Courts Taiwanese With Pandas
ABC News - 2 hours 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.