AP - Police on Monday tackled and forcibly dragged away a man dressed in black and carrying two suitcases who had stationed himself in front of the west side of the U.S. Capitol.
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AP - Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
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Reuters - General Motors Corp. has pulled
its advertising from the Los Angeles Times over what it called
factual errors and misrepresentations in the newspaper, a
spokesman for the automaker said on Thursday.
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Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women
between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a
Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit
Friday.
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AP - CBS News won a Peabody Award on Thursday for its report on abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a story anchored by Dan Rather and produced by Mary Mapes, who was later fired by CBS for her role in the...
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AFP - Pope John Paul II is credited for some advances by women in the Catholic Church, but his conservative social views have alienated many who have had difficulty reconciling Church doctrine with their everyday...
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AP - An explosion apparently set off by a man on a motorcycle hit an outdoor bazaar popular with tourists in Cairo's Old City on Thursday, killing two people, including a French woman, and wounding at least 19 others, officials said.
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AP - The U.S. textile and clothing industry asked the government Wednesday to re-impose quotas on 14 categories of clothing to protect American manufacturers from a flood of Chinese imports.
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