AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan provided the U.S. military with information that helped in tracking down and killing Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian official said. Some of the information came from Jordan’s sources inside Iraq and led the U.S. military to the area of Baqouba, the …
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WASHINGTON – NASA‘s top safety official objected to the agency’s decision to press ahead with the launch of Discovery next month without fixing a potentially catastrophic foam-shedding problem, but said he won’t appeal — and won’t resign in protest — because he does not believe the shuttle astronauts’ lives are …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Villagers and rescue teams Thursday searched for survivors on an Indonesian island hit by floods and landslides, as the number of killed climbed to 178, officials said. More than 135 other people were missing in southern districts of Sulawesi Island, with many feared to have been swept …
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NEW YORK – U.S. stocks fell Thursday, as investors bet the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates even as economic growth shows signs of slowing. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 60.35 points, or 0.54 percent, to end at 11,019.11. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ) slipped 6.60 …
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WASHINGTON – The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive with sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel. The FBI said Thursday there is no evidence that anyone accessed Social Security numbers and other data on the equipment. Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, …
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WIMBLEDON, England – After four days without a significant upset, two top names were eliminated at Wimbledon on Friday within minutes of each other. Fourth-seeded David Nalbandian, runner-up in 2002, and women’s No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova, a former U.S. Open champion and finalist at the French Open three weeks ago, …
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A new analysis shows that some popular nonsteroidal pain killers are just as likely to increase the risk of heart attacks as the Cox-2 inhibitors, two of which were removed from the market. Researchers described the risk as “modest” for people who do not already have heart or vascular disease. …
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WILMINGTON, Del. – General Motors Corp. (GM) has made significant progress on its turnaround plan in the past year, reducing costs and rolling out new products, the company’s chairman and chief executive told shareholders Tuesday. Rick Wagoner said the automaker expects to cut $7 billion in structural costs in North …
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From pedicures that can net you a nasty infection, to anti-aging treatments that can land you on a ventilator, the message seems clear: Looking beautiful sometimes carries a huge price tag. And while in the right hands experts say most beauty treatments are safe, in the wrong hands the trade-off …
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VIENNA, Austria – The U.N. atomic agency found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country’s defense ministry, diplomats said Friday, adding to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities aimed at making nuclear arms. The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for revealing the confidential …
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