VP to Make Local Soc. Sec. Pitch
WXIA-TV - 1 hour ago Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to visit Metro Atlanta Monday morning to talk Social Security at a town hall meeting in Smyrna, Ga. The meeting is expected to get underway about 11 am at Campbell High

Six Die in Baghdad Bombings
Voice of America - 1 hour ago By VOA News. Iraqi police say insurgents carried out at least three car bomb attacks in Baghdad Monday, killing at least six people and injuring 12 others. Police say one of the attacks narrowly missed a top

Australia Won't Withdraw Iraq Troops as Hostage Taken (Update4)
Bloomberg - 3 hours ago May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Australia won't withdraw its 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today after a videotape showed gunmen in Iraq holding hostage an engineer who identified himself as an Australian and pleaded for foreign

Verizon raises bid for MCI, retains board's favor
ComputerWorld - 41 minutes ago MAY 02, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A new month, a new bid for acquisition target MCI Inc. This time around it's Verizon Communications Inc. that has won the approval of MCI's board of directors with a revised

Berkshire shareholders like meeting, have concerns
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Jonathan Stempel. OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders gave mostly thumbs up to the annual party thrown this year by Chairman Warren Buffett, but expressed a bit of uncertainty over

Who Would Read North Korea's Mind
Chosun Ilbo - 26 minutes ago North Korea on Sunday fired a missile with a range of about 100 km into the East Sea. It looks like no more than a test-run for a conventional missile -- for now. But tension is mounting over North Korea's

UN set to review 1970 nuclear treaty
CBC Prince Edward Island - 1 hour ago UNITED NATIONS - Negotiators from 189 nations begin reviewing the international treaty designed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons on Monday, amid fears that actions by Iran and North Korea are making it irrelevant.