AFP - Zimbabwe police detained US and British diplomats Thursday in a dramatic confrontation at a roadblock following what the government described as a gathering at the home of an opposition supporter.
AFP - Two alleged plotters in the September 11, 2001 attacks Thursday demanded to be sentenced to death so they could become martyrs as the US military hearing of five men got underway here.
Reuters - Continental Airlines Inc said
on Thursday it would cut 3,000 jobs, or about 6.5 percent of
its work force, and retire 67 older planes as it scales down in
the face of soaring fuel prices.
Reuters - President George W. Bush and his top
policymakers misstated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and
ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms
programs as they made a case for war, the Senate intelligence
committee reported on Thursday.
Reuters - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it
would buy rural mobile service provider Alltel Corp for $28.1
billion including debt, which would vault it to first place in
the U.S. market ahead of AT&T Inc .
Reuters - Iran said on Thursday it had given U.N.
investigators more than 200 pages of answers to questions about
intelligence reports that it secretly researched how to make
atom bombs and declared "the matter is over."
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired
the U.S. Air Force's top two leaders after a series of
embarrassing missteps that raised questions about U.S. nuclear
security, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Reuters - The
accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood
in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to
Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty.
Reuters - Zimbabwean police detained U.S. and
British diplomats for several hours on Thursday, slashing the
tires of their cars after they visited victims of political
violence ahead of a presidential vote.
Reuters - Hillary Clinton will end her
presidential bid and declare her support for Barack Obama, she
said in a letter on Thursday, concluding a grueling 16-month
nominating fight that split the Democratic Party.
AP - A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him was found shot to death in his home Thursday, police said. -- read full article
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AP - Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Thursday for a spacewalk to spruce up the orbiting outpost's newest room — a $1 billion Japanese lab.
AP - Tax rebate checks gave consumers a little extra money in their pockets during May, but most were still spending conservatively, buying necessities such as food and gas and shying away from splurging on clothing or furniture. The result was some better-than-expected sales for the nation's retailers, with lower-priced merchants like discounters and wholesale clubs showing the strongest gains.
