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WASHINGTON - Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there. Bush said last year's troop buildup has turned Iraq around and produced "the first large-scale Arab uprising against Osama bin Laden."
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's schedules as first lady thousands of pages worth are being released after months of pressure and criticism that the Clintons were delaying making them public.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Dextre the robot got a prime parking spot at the international space station and should be able to keep it for at least a few months.
PHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama confronted the nation's racial divide head-on, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold effort to quiet a campaign uproar over race and his former pastor's incendiary statements.
LOS ANGELES - Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's founder said Tuesday.
HOUSTON - The 22-game winning streak is over. Now the Houston Rockets have to make sure they reach the postseason in the wild Western Conference. Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics stopped the Rockets' remarkable run Tuesday night, pulling away in the second half for a 94-74 victory.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call girl at the center of the Elliot Spitzer sex scandal, watched the potential earnings from her new-found fame drop by $1 million on Tuesday as old nude videos of her emerged.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he was committed to a peace settlement after President George W. Bush leaves office, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China vowed on Wednesday to take the Olympic torch to Tibet despite deadly riots there and warned against international protests over its crackdown in the Himalayan region that are certain to dog the run-up to the Games.
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British tabloid newspapers made unprecedented front page apologies on Wednesday to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann for suggesting they might have killed their daughter and covered up her death.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia received written U.S. proposals on Wednesday which Washington hopes will allay Moscow's concerns over plans to deploy elements of a missile shield in Europe, Russian news agencies reported.
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules.
MUQIBEL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition troops killed three men, two children and a woman, in a raid in southeastern Afghanistan, provincial officials and village residents said on Wednesday.
DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - The Dalai Lama wants talks between his government-in-exile and China to resume and is committed to a non-violent settlement of the Tibet issue, one of his aides told AFP Wednesday.
ZAGREB (AFP) - Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary recognised Kosovo's independence on Wednesday in a new blow to Serbia's efforts to resist the province's breakaway.
LONDON (AFP) - Asian equities chased Wall Street higher on Wednesday after a deep US interest rate cut but a European rally fizzled out amid rumours that a British bank was facing liquidity problems.
LOS BANOS, Philippines (AFP) - As the price of rice hovers near record levels, many poor countries face the spectre of riots by hungry people, according to one of the world's leading rice experts.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The polar ice cap over the Arctic Ocean was slightly bigger last month than in February of last year due to a harsher winter, but the ice sheet is still shrinking overall, NASA said Tuesday.
ROME (AFP) - A plan by Air France-KLM to take over failing Alitalia is "in jeopardy" after the breakdown of talks with the Italian carrier's unions, the European giant's chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta said Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AFP) - Credit card giant Visa raised more than 17 billion dollars Tuesday in the largest share offering in US history, despite a growing financial crisis in the country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Pioneering science fiction writer and visionary Arthur C. Clarke, best known for his work on the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China vowed on Wednesday to take the Olympic torch to Tibet despite deadly riots there and warned against international protests over its crackdown in the Himalayan region that are certain to dog the run-up to the Games.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States failed on Tuesday to find common ground over U.S. plans to deploy parts of a missile defence shield in eastern Europe.
LOS BANOS, Philippines (AFP) - As the price of rice hovers near record levels, many poor countries face the spectre of riots by hungry people, according to one of the world's leading rice experts.
HOUSTON - The shots stopped falling, Boston's stars took over and just like that, the Houston Rockets' 22-game winning streak was history.
NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley, one of the world's biggest investment banks, on Wednesday reported strong stock and bond trading pushed first-quarter above Wall Street projections.