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Hurricane Prompts Massive Evacuations (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:55:39 GMT
AP - Coastal residents packed up and evacuated or hunkered down Saturday as Hurricane Dennis lashed the Florida Keys with wind and sheets of rain and churned along a path toward areas still rebuilding from last year's storms.

London Blasts Like Past al-Qaida Strikes (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:24:35 GMT
AP - The three bombs that ripped apart subway cars hundreds of feet below ground exploded just seconds apart, police said Saturday, drastically revising earlier estimates. The new timeline, coupled with the nature of the explosives bolstered theories that al-Qaida-linked terrorists carried out the attacks that killed at least 49 people.

N. Korea Agrees to Rejoin Six-Nation Talks (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:04:55 GMT
AP - North Korea said Saturday it will rejoin six-nation nuclear arms talks in July, ending a more than yearlong boycott in a breakthrough announced on the eve of a meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Chinese leaders.

U.S. Launches Operation Scimitar in Iraq (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:13:22 GMT
AP - About 600 U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched a fourth offensive against insurgents in less than a month in a volatile western province in Iraq, the military said Saturday.

Group Claims It Killed U.S. Commando (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:32:07 GMT
AP - A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the group has beheaded a missing American commando, but he offered no proof and the U.S. military said it was still searching for the Navy SEAL.

Forensic Divers Search for Teen in Aruba (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:59:50 GMT
AP - Forensic divers from Florida State University searched an underwater cavern in the northern tip of Aruba on Saturday in what may be one of the last organized attempts to find an Alabama teenager missing since May 30.

Giant Panda Mei Xiang Gives Birth at Zoo (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:56:12 GMT
AP - Mei Xiang looked surprised, perhaps a bit put off by the shrill cries from the first giant panda cub born at the National Zoo in 16 years. Within a few minutes, however, the first-time mother was licking and caring for her cub, so fragile that zoo officials had yet to determine its gender or inspect it.

Three Runners Gored by Bulls in Pamplona (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:13:27 GMT
AP - At least three people were gored and several others suffered scrapes and cuts on Saturday in Spain's running of the bulls.

Stone, Cage to Team Up on Film About 9/11 (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:13:27 GMT
AP - Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.

Armstrong Holds on to Lead in Tough Stage (AP)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:14 GMT
AP - Lance Armstrong kept his overall lead in the Tour de France on Saturday despite a rough day for his team and fierce challenges in the race's hardest mountain climb so far.

Britsh police suspect timers were used in bombings (Reuters)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:21:17 GMT
Reuters - Police hunting for suspected al Qaeda bombers who killed more than 50 people in London said on Saturday three of the blasts were almost simultaneous, making it more likely they were detonated by timers than suicide bombers.

London attacks show need to stay on offense-Bush (Reuters)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:11:31 GMT
Reuters - President Bush praised the resilience of Londoners on Saturday after the deadly bombings there and pledged to "stay on the offense" in the war on terrorism as he urged Americans to remain on alert.

Hurricane Dennis leaves Cuba, 32 dead in Caribbean (Reuters)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:31:35 GMT
Reuters - Deadly Hurricane Dennis left behind a battered Cuba with shattered houses, shredded power lines and debris-littered streets on Saturday and reintensified over the warm Gulf of Mexico after a Caribbean rampage that killed at least 32 people.

N. Korea agrees to return to nuclear talks in July (Reuters)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:21:20 GMT
Reuters - North Korea has agreed to return to stalled six-country talks on its nuclear weapons programs this month after a break of more than a year, Pyongyang's official news agency and a U.S. official said on Saturday.

Taliban says beheads 'captured' U.S. commando (Reuters)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:20:58 GMT
Reuters - The Taliban said they beheaded a missing U.S. commando in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, but the Pentagon said it had no information to support the claim.

Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda (washingtonpost.com)
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT
washingtonpost.com - After Sept. 11, 2001, the world learned that counterterrorism specialists had seen that kind of attack coming, they just did not know when and where it would take place. In a similar sense, they saw yesterday's London bombings coming, too; they have been warning of such a strike on European soil for much of this year.

African Aid Is Doubled By G-8 (washingtonpost.com)
Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT
washingtonpost.com - GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 8 -- President Bush and the leaders of seven other major industrialized nations pledged Friday to double the amount of aid for Africa in five years and substantially raise it for other poor countries, capping a summit conducted in what British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the "shadow of terrorism."

Imported Gas Cited In Rash Of Leaks (washingtonpost.com)
Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT
washingtonpost.com - Washington Gas officials said yesterday that a change from domestic to imported natural gas was the "key contributing factor" in a rash of leaks in underground mains and service lines in Prince George's County over the past two winters.

Military Expands Homeland Efforts (washingtonpost.com)
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT
washingtonpost.com - A new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland calls for expanded U.S. military activity not only in the air and sea -- where the armed forces have historically guarded approaches to the country -- but also on the ground and in other less traditional, potentially more problematic areas such as intelligence sharing with civilian law enforcement.

Doubts on Vitamin E, Aspirin for Prevention (washingtonpost.com)
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT
washingtonpost.com - Neither low-dose aspirin nor Vitamin E supplements prevent cancer in women, and Vitamin E also does little or nothing to prevent heart disease in them, according to results of a large and authoritative study released yesterday.