AP - South Korea's prime minister and the entire Cabinet offered their resignations to President Lee Myung-bak following widespread protests over the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.
AP - Water poured from a brimming lake formed by China's massive earthquake down a manmade spillway Tuesday, as towns downstream went on alert for possible flooding should the unstable dam burst.
AP - Flash floods inundated a southwest Wisconsin town Monday for the second time in 10 months, while 60 miles away an embankment along a man-made lake gave way, unleashing a powerful current that ripped homes off their foundations.
AP - President Bush opened his last summit with the European Union on Tuesday with a long list of trans-Atlantic issues on his plate — Iran's nuclear ambitions, Afghanistan's woes, climate change, Mideast peace and perhaps even the U.S.-Europe flap over chickens.
AFP - Twenty-three miners were found alive Monday in a Ukrainian coal mine more than 24 hours after they were trapped deep underground by a huge explosion, rescue officials said.
AFP - Tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal on Monday stepped up protests against rising fuel prices, causing mayhem on highways and blocking border crossings.
Reuters - U.S. violent crimes like murders and
rapes decreased by 1.4 percent in 2007 after two years of
increases that caused concern among criminal justice experts,
the FBI reported on Monday.
Reuters - McDonald's Corp said on Monday it
has temporarily stopped serving sliced tomatoes on its
sandwiches in the United States as health officials work to
pinpoint the source of a Salmonella outbreak.
Reuters - Sen. Edward
Kennedy, the patriarch of America's most storied political
family, returned home to Massachusetts on Monday, a week after
surgery for removal of a malignant brain tumor.
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on
Monday recommended senior Pentagon official Michael Donley to
be secretary of the U.S. Air Force in a shake-up triggered by
mistakes in handling nuclear weapons and parts.
Reuters - Average U.S. gasoline pump prices --
already above $4 a gallon -- could run up 20 cents or more by
mid-summer, if crude oil prices don't fall from record levels
near $140 a barrel, analysts said.
Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
on Monday raised $6 billion of capital after it said it expects
to post a $2.77 billion quarterly loss from trades and hedges
gone sour.
Reuters - Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama sought to tap into Americans' anxiety
over high gasoline prices on Monday by saying he would impose a
windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies if elected.
