TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists and opposition supporters, including a Jewish teenager, for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election. Full Story »
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists and opposition supporters, including a Jewish teenager, for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election. Full Story »
MIAMI - A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for the Florida Panhandle as a newly formed depression swirled off the coast and threatened to bring rain and possible flooding to the area. Full Story »
KUWAIT CITY - The fire at a wedding tent in Kuwait that killed 41 women and children consumed the structure in a blazing inferno lasting just three minutes, the fire department chief said Sunday. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES - Chima Simone is no longer in the "Big Brother" house. Full Story »
CHASKA, Minn. - The coronation of Tiger Woods turned into a contest Saturday at the PGA Championship. What had looked so inevitable Woods with a four-shot lead on the weekend at a major suddenly became filled with possibilities as his margin vanished along the back nine at Hazeltine. Only a late birdie by Woods and a lone bogey from Padraig Harrington gave the final major a familiar look. Full Story »
YANGON (Reuters) - U.S. senator Jim Webb said on Sunday he had asked Myanmar to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and let her take part in politics during talks that secured the release of an American jailed for visiting her. Full Story »
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denounced upcoming joint South Korean and U.S. military drills and said it would "wipe out" the countries with nuclear weapons if they threatened the communist state, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday. Full Story »
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The West must be held to account for stoking Iran's post-election unrest, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, as the third mass trial got underway of demonstrators accused of trying to overthrow clerical rule. Full Story »
TALOQAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Supporters of Afghanistan's main presidential candidates came out in their thousands on Sunday in a last burst of campaign excitement with days to go before the ballot. Full Story »
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storms Ana and Bill, the first named storms of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, were racing westward with gale force winds, and Bill was expected to develop into a hurricane in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said. Full Story »
KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti wedding tent, where 41 women and children died in a fire Saturday, had only one exit, an official said, causing a stampede that compounded the death toll. Full Story »
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of huge bombings in northern Iraq have triggered fiery accusations of blame between Arabs and Kurds, escalating a dispute over land and oil that has played into the hands of a resurgent al Qaeda. Full Story »
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama reignited his criticism of health insurance companies on Saturday, promising reforms that would prevent firms from capping coverage or charging "outrageous" fees. Full Story »
BANGKOK (AFP) - An American who swam to the home of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the army-ruled nation Sunday after a US senator secured his release from a sentence of seven years' hard labour. Full Story »
CHASKA, Minn. – The coronation of Tiger Woods turned into a contest Saturday at the PGA Championship. What had looked so inevitable Woods with a four-shot lead on the weekend at a major suddenly became filled with possibilities as his margin vanished along the back nine at Hazeltine. Only a late birdie by Woods and a lone bogey from Padraig Harrington gave the final major a familiar look. Full Story »
OAKLAND, Calif. – Negotiators for the San Francisco Bay area's commuter rail system and one of its unions have one more day to hammer out a deal before a threatened strike strangles the Monday commute. Full Story »
WHAT HAPPENED?: Consumer prices were unchanged in July, and over the past 12 months they have fallen 2.1 percent the sharpest annual decline since a similar drop in the period ending in January 1950. Full Story »
NEW YORK - No. 2 home-improvement chain Lowe's Cos. reports its second-quarter earnings on Monday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. Full Story »
MADRID (AFP) - Spain's recession-hit economy shrank further in the second quarter, official data showed Friday, as a recovery underway elsewhere in the eurozone failed to reach its fourth-largest member. Full Story »
Auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge for permission to cut health and life insurance benefits for thousands of current and former workers. Full Story »
BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros' Soros Fund Management reported holdings of $4.2 billion at the end of the second quarter after cutting its stake in a number of retailers. Full Story »
Times are tough for U.S. commercial property owners, but few have it worse than landlords in Detroit. Full Story »
MEXICO CITY - They bleed the fuel lines just about anywhere, drug cartel members and other criminals, sucking millions of dollars of Mexican petroleum from makeshift taps hidden in sheds or on remote desert stretches, with thousands of gallons ending up in U.S. refineries. Full Story »
WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware bankruptcy judge is weighing whether auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. can terminate retiree health care and life insurance benefits for thousands of current and former workers. Full Story »
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Orchards and vineyards may soon spring from the blight of thousands of abandoned buildings in Cleveland, a city struggling to rise from years of decline and home foreclosures. Full Story »
The battle between two of the largest graduate school testing giants has been heating up recently as more business schools warm to the idea of providing students with an alternative to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). Now another top-ranked business school is weighing in. The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School(Wharton Full-Time MBA Profile) plans to allow MBA applicants to submit the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), for admission in the fall of 2010, says Admissions Director J.J. Cutler. ... Full Story »