AFP - Ten Sudanese refugees were killed when thousands of Egyptian riot police forcefully broke up a three-month protest they had been staging outside UN offices in Cairo.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Who's afraid of a couple of gay cowboys? Not moviegoers, who helped "Brokeback Mountain" post the highest per-screen average over the film-flush holiday weekend.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - At a cost of as much as $20 million, more than 200 National Guard soldiers returning to Louisiana from Iraq are staying on active duty for up to a year so they can have full-time work

Reuters - European Union monitors withdrew from
Gaza's border with Egypt on Friday after Palestinian police
imposed an armed blockade to protest the killing of a colleague
in spirali

AP - To his family and neighbors, Alfred Ginglen was a pillar of community life. The married father and ex-Marine served in local civic groups, even working in town as an auxiliary police office

AP - Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using Internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House'

AP - It'll happen on a quiet Sunday morning, the first day of the new year — definitely not banker's hours. But that might just be the perfect time for Bank of America Corp.

AP - The Detroit Pistons insisted it was merely another game, and one more win. For the Miami Heat, they put more stock into the matchup and found out they will have to improve to knock off t

Reuters - A Texas golf course, a Nevada
tanning salon and an Illinois candy shop were among small
businesses that may have improperly received U.S. subsidized
loans intended for firms hurt by t

Reuters - Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite
politician met its Kurdish president at a lakeside retreat on
Thursday to sketch out plans for a grand coalition government
capable of ending t

Reuters - China is still not sharing virus
samples from animal bird flu outbreaks, the World Health
Organization said on Friday, a day after Beijing announced the
country's third human dea

Reuters - Hilton Hotels Corp. on
Thursday said it would buy its British namesake's hotel
operations for 3.3 billion pounds ($5.7 billion), propelling it
into the ranks of rivals wi

Reuters - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels fired at
police in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged north and east on Friday, the
military said, as a Norwegian peace envoy prepared to visit the
island am

AFP - China's third confirmed bird flu death highlights the danger of small, undetected H5N1 outbreaks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, as authorities probed how the victim fe

AFP - Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain threatened to cancel elections in the province if the Protestant and Catholic parties do not re-form a power-sharing government

AP - A young "Sopranos" actor accused in the slaying of an off-duty police officer said in a jailhouse interview he's sorry and didn't know his alleged burglary accomplice was carrying