Reuters - A dinner invitation to al Qaeda's
second-in-command triggered a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan's
tribal region but Ayman al-Zawahri failed to show up, Pakistani
intelligen

AP - With roughly two-thirds of New Orleans residents still living elsewhere, casting directors weren't sure what kind of turnout to expect for the first major casting call since Hurrica

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Reuters - Actress Shelley Winters, the
two-time Oscar winner whose roles ranged from glamour girls to
tramps, died at a Southern California nursing home early on
Saturday, a spokeswoman said. S

AP - Thousands of teenage girls waited patiently in long lines to audition Saturday for a role in the next Harry Potter film.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of terrorizing classmates with a pistol warned authorities the weapon likely was fake before police shot him in a middle school bathroom, a fami

AP - Tens of thousands of elderly poor people may have had trouble getting their medicine during the first two weeks of the government's prescription drug benefit, and about 20 states have be

Reuters - The U.S. military freed two Iraqi
journalists who work for Reuters on Sunday after holding them
for several months without charge.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Most Americans believe there has been significant progress in achieving Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality, though blacks are more skeptical, an AP-Ipsos po

AP - A space capsule ferrying the first comet dust samples to Earth parachuted to a pre-dawn landing in the remote desert Sunday, drawing cheers from elated scientists.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue,&quo

AP - It took a Champ to knock off the champs, a crazy 100-yard sprint by Denver's star cornerback that helped the Broncos stop their long streak of playoff futility and bring the New Engla

Reuters - Iran said on Sunday diplomacy was the
only way to resolve the impasse over its nuclear programme but
that it would not reverse its widely criticized decision to
resume atomic resear

Reuters - A space capsule loaded with comet
dust completed a 2.9 billion-mile journey on Sunday, landing
safely in the Utah desert to the relief of NASA scientists who
have waited seven years f

Reuters - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved
voting in Arab East Jerusalem in a January 25 Palestinian
parliamentary election but said it would ban the militant Hamas
group from listing i

AP - Reality TV they are not, but two hit shows are so convincing as imitations of life in the criminal justice system that some legal experts worry they're distorting the expectations of re