SYDNEY, Australia – Police said they arrested a man armed with a knife after he attempted to toss a burning package over the fence of the Australian prime minister’s Sydney residence on Thursday. Prime Minister John Howard (search) is on vacation and was not in the residence, close to the …
Read More »Iraqi Official: Syria Not Stopping Insurgents
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Iraq’s interior minister accused Syria on Monday of not making a serious effort to crack down on insurgents in its territory or prevent them from crossing into Iraq, adding that he had pictures and addresses of militant leaders in Syria. Bayan Jabr (search), in an exclusive interview …
Read More »Senators Consider Approach to Supreme Court Nominee
WASHINGTON – While official Washington remains awash in endless speculation about the possible retirement of Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (search), maneuvering continues apace on Capitol Hill in expectation of a nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (search). Rehnquist returned to work Friday after a two-night stay …
Read More »International Paper Announces Massive Restructuring
NEW YORK – International Paper (IP), the world’s largest forest products company, on Tuesday set a massive restructuring and may shed businesses that generate almost a third of its sales to focus on its main paper and packaging divisions. Shares of International Paper opened more than 13 percent higher on …
Read More »Spielberg, Cruise Wage 'War' With $77.6M
LOS ANGELES – “War of the Worlds” (search) conquered the box office as easily as the movie’s aliens overpowered Earth, but it did not have enough firepower to overcome Hollywood’s prolonged box office slump. Steven Spielberg (search) and Tom Cruise’s sci-fi tale took in $77.6 million over the long Fourth …
Read More »Congress Passes Medical Error Reporting Bill
A national system designed to increase reporting of medical errors (search) won final congressional approval Wednesday and was sent to President Bush. It is estimated that more than 250 Americans die every day as a result of preventable medical errors. Health care officials say increased reporting of such errors would …
Read More »Stocks Turn Positive as Oil Falls
NEW YORK – Stocks turned positive Wednesday after oil prices fell below $57 a barrel and as investors focused on the positive aspects of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s comments about the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) gained 42.59 points, or 0.40 percent, to end at 10,689.15, …
Read More »Japan Plans World's Fastest Computer
NEW YORK – Japan (search ) has plans to start building a supercomputer next year that can operate 73 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer, the government said Monday. The American Blue Gene/L system supercomputer developed by International Business Machine Corp. at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, …
Read More »Tina Fey Returns to 'SNL' After Giving Birth
NEW YORK – Maternity leave is over forTina Fey (search) of “Saturday Night Live.” She’ll be back behind the “Weekend Update” anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to her daughter Alice on Sept. 10. “I had to get back to work,” Fey said. “NBC …
Read More »Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Americans Robert H. Grubbs (search) and Richard R. Schrock (search) and Yves Chauvin of France won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for work that reduces hazardous waste in creating new chemicals. The trio won the award for their development of the metathesis method for creating new organic molecules. …
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