EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realizing "a dream of all Chinese people", but Tibetan exiles criticized Beijing for politicizing the Games.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Josef Fritzl said he became addicted to incest with his daughter, who bore him seven children, and had imprisoned her in a cellar to save her from the outside world.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers....
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus - one of nature's strangest animals with a bill like a duck's, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Simon Cowell once told Jason Castro that his face would save him from elimination. Not this time. The dreadlocked heartthrob was voted off "American Idol" Wednesday as the show narrowed the competition to three finalists: David Cook, David Archuleta and Syesha Mercado....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chants of "MVP, MVP" directed at Kobe Bryant by Los Angeles Lakers' fans have a different meaning now. They represent fact, not just sentiment. Bryant played like a Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night, getting 34 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and the Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 120-110 to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals and remain the only unbeaten team in the postseason....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today....
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the Beijing games. The Mount Everest climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live television broadcast as five torchbearers each shuffled a few feet before passing on the flame to the next person. A colorful Tibetan prayer flag lined the path and fluttered in the wind....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Strapped homeowners could refinance into government-backed mortgages and states would get money to deal with foreclosed property under Democrats' housing aid plan....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Consumers gave some of the nation's retailers a little relief in April following months of dismal sales, but business was helped along by heavy discounting that could hurt first-quarter earnings....
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000....
Vladimir V. Putin won an overwhelming vote in Russia’s lower house of Parliament, a day after he passed formal power as president to his protégé, Dmitri A. Medvedev.
From Eric Dash, a DealBook colleague: Citigroup announced late Wednesday that it was moving one of its most senior investment bankers to the Middle East, hoping to establish a stronger foothold in the oil-rich region. Alberto Verme, Citigroup's global co-head of investment banking, is expected will head to Dubai by the end of the month, relocating from [...].
Five days after the powerful cyclone struck, Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital and an erstwhile verdant oasis of wide avenues, is far from back to normal.
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - It's now common wisdom that Sen. Hillary Clinton attracts older voters, women and the white working class, while Sen. Barack Obama is the go-to guy for youth, African-Americans and the elite.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A Reuters photographer covering the aftermath of Zimbabwe's elections has been detained for three days for allegedly using a satellite phone to transmit pictures, the global news and information company said on Thursday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A team led by a U.S. State Department nuclear envoy entered North Korea on Thursday to persuade Pyongyang to declare its nuclear activities as called for in a six-country disarmament deal, an official said.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta has given the U.S. military permission to fly in relief supplies for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, Thai Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niumpradit told Reuters on Thursday.
A dozen oil companies agreed to pay $423 million in cash plus clean-up costs to settle litigation over groundwater contamination from the gasoline additive, MTBE.
The videotapes show that the team recorded play-calling signals by coaches of five opponents in six games between the 2000 and 2002 seasons, in violation of league rules.
Toyota Motor Corp. posted a 28 percent fall in quarterly net profit, hit by a stronger yen and finance-related losses, and forecast its first annual profit drop in seven years.
Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture, while some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy.
Rumors of a Texas-style police crackdown are among the constants of life in the heartland of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination picked up support from four more superdelegates Wednesday, pushing him ever closer to victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton - even as their primary marathon staggered on....
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus - one of nature's strangest-looking animals with the beak of a duck, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Lakers celebrated Kobe Bryant's MVP award the best way possible. Bryant had 34 points, eight rebounds and six assists Wednesday night, and the Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 120-110 to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals and remain the NBA's only unbeaten team in the postseason....
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's isolationist regime blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift food aid to cyclone survivors, U.N. officials said, as the hungry fought for what little food was available and drank coconut milk for lack of clean water....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The reaction - or lack of it - by Indiana and North Carolina voters to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments emphasizes how deeply entrenched the racial lines of support are for the two Democratic presidential rivals....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Strapped homeowners could refinance into government-backed mortgages and states would get money to deal with foreclosed property under Democrats' housing aid plan....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton was among dozens arrested Wednesday as demonstrators blocked traffic at the height of the evening rush hour to protest the acquittal of three detectives in the 50-bullet shooting of an unarmed black man on his wedding day....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A police sergeant and five officers were pulled from street duty Wednesday as city officials investigated television footage showing a group of officers kicking and punching three shooting suspects during a traffic stop....
