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South Pole explorer Vaughan dies at 100
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Norman Vaughan, an adventurer whose eight-decade career spanned the early exploration of Antarctica to dog-mushing feats in his later years in Alaska, ...
Final body found from Miami seaplane crash
MIAMI (Reuters) - A body plucked on Friday from the ocean off Florida's Key Biscayne was that of a victim of the seaplane crash earlier in the week off Miami Beach, authorities said.
Survivors pray, lay wreaths in tsunami memorial
PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Tsunami survivors and relatives of the dead laid wreaths and prayed on the Thai island of Phuket on Saturday as they began marking the first anniversary ...
Combat troops to be scaled back: Rumsfeld
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday the number of U.S. combat forces in Iraq would be cut by some 7,000 by early next year, but the numbers ...
Egypt court sentences opposition figure to 5 years
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced opposition politician and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour to five years in jail on forgery charges on Saturday, raising a storm ...
US high court nominee urged eavesdropping immunity
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito once argued that the country's top law enforcement official should be immune from legal action for authorizing domestic ...
UN votes for budget; averts financial crisis
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly late on Friday passed a budget with an unprecedented spending cap aimed at pressuring countries into approving management and ...
NYT: NSA eavesdropping wider than W.House admitted
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The volume of information gathered from telephone and Internet communications by the National Security Agency without court-approved warrants was much larger ...
South Korea tries to pick up pieces from science fraud
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea tried to make sense on Saturday of the exposure of fraud in a celebrated paper by its most famous scientist, while a panel next week may say if there ...
Shi'ites dismiss fraud claims, talks continue
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Triumphant Iraqi Shi'ites dismissed allegations that fraud helped them win last week's election, as President Jalal Talabani met their disappointed Sunni opponents ...
Pope decries commercialization of Christmas
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict urged Roman Catholics on Sunday not to commercialize Christmas, saying joy -- not expensive objects -- was the real gift of the season.
Lawmakers tangle again on torture legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation banning torture of detainees in U.S. custody was sidetracked on Saturday when House of Representatives Republicans insisted on adding an unrelated ...
Sharon aide markets Spielberg's 'Munich' in Israel
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg has hired one of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top strategists to market his controversial new film about Israel's retaliation for the ...
Bush defends eavesdropping
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush defended a secret order he signed allowing for eavesdropping on people in the United States, as he fought on Saturday for the renewal of ...
NYC mayor aims to reinvigorate WTC recovery
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dirt pit marks the spot where New York's landmark towers were felled by hijackers on a suicide mission more than four years ago, a cavernous scar that has ...
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