Reuters - Russia will consider how to
retaliate over a planned U.S. missile shield but wants to
continue talks on the issue with Washington, President Dmitry
Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Hurricane Bertha was expected to
strengthen again as it neared Bermuda but it remained uncertain
whether the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season
would actually hit the British colony, U.S. forecasters said on
Wednesday.
Reuters - Northwest Airlines Corp said on
Wednesday it would cut its frontline and management staff by 8
percent as part of a sweeping capacity reduction aimed at
offsetting the soaring cost of jet fuel.
Reuters - Barack Obama has spent days
rejecting charges of flip-flopping on Iraq, but the
presidential contender on Wednesday owned up to changing
positions on another issue -- letting his daughters be
interviewed on television.
Reuters - The United States on Wednesday
condemned the attack on its consulate in Istanbul and a State
Department spokesman said he could neither confirm nor rule out
al Qaeda involvement.
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
on Wednesday he planned to reopen a $35 billion competition
between Boeing Co and a team of Northrop Grumman Corp
and Europe's EADS to build new aerial
refueling tankers.
Reuters - Iran test-fired nine missiles on
Wednesday and warned the United States and Israel it was ready
to retaliate for any attack over its disputed nuclear projects.
AP - Demolition crews smashed the historic walls of Tiger Stadium on Wednesday, punching through to the interior of the ballpark that stood for decades. -- read full article
AP - Weeks after giving birth to daughter Maddie Briann, Jamie Lynn Spears is showing off the newborn, sharing memories of a "perfect" delivery and longing to be a Southern soccer mom.
AP - A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm. -- read full article
AP - Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc. -- read full article
AP - President Bush hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a strategy for a global climate-change accord, saying Wednesday "significant progress" was made. But environmentalists and the U.N.'s top climate official disputed his claims.
AP - Thousands of people were ordered to get out of Paradise on Wednesday as an out-of-control wildfire threatened the Northern California city that also was devastated by flames just weeks ago.
AP - The Senate on Wednesday affirmed its intention to protect from civil lawsuits telecom companies that helped the government wiretap Americans without court authorization after the Sept. 11 attacks.
