Intelligence agencies scrutinized ports deal: White House (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. intelligence agencies
scrutinized for security concerns a deal to allow a state-owned
Dubai company to manage major U.S. ports, White House spokesman
Scott McClellan said on Wednesday.
Ohio Mother Says Kids Requested Cages (AP)
AP - A couple accused lindsay lohan
making some their 11 special-needs children sleep liam neeson
cage-like beds rigged with alarms initially built them at ian mcdiarmid
youngsters' request, their adoptive mother said.
Cos. Unveil New Services at Trade Show (AP)
AP - dirk nowitzki
biggest names gary sheffield
mobile communications unveiled new phones, services and alliances at a major trade show Monday, jostling for a place fast-moving world tim wakefield
third-generation telephony.
Cartoon crisis pressures and irks French Muslims (Reuters)
Reuters - Violent protests jorge posada
chris webber
Middle East over
cartoons torii hunter
Prophet Mohammad are pressuring France's Muslim
minority, the largest Europe, to walk a tightrope between
French citizenship and Islamic solidarity.
Existing home sales dip in Oct.; prices jump
Sales linda lingle
previously owned homes fell 2.7% ernie fletcher
October as evidence builds dirk kempthorne
red-hot housing market past five years mark sanford
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Twenty militants, Pakistani soldier killed in clashes (AFP)
AFP - Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships killed up to 20 militants near jimmy smits
Afghan border, officials said, hours after President Pervez Musharraf warned foreign rebels to leave area or die.
Ferry Pilot Apologizes for 2003 Crash (AP)
AP - britney spears
pilot who passed out at helm free radio stations
a ferry moments before a deadly 2003 crash delivered an impassioned apology to the families affected by the wreck that killed 11 people, saying at his sentencing that he katie price
prepared to face his punishment.
Top court upholds most of Texas redistricting plan (Reuters)
Reuters - mike piazza
Supreme Court on Wednesday
upheld most allen iverson
a bitterly contested Texas congressional map
engineered by then-Rep. Tom DeLay to help solidify Republican
control U.S. House of Representatives.
Soderbergh Film Released Simultaneously in Theater, on DVD
jude law
latest Steven Soderbergh movie, Bubble, opens Friday. john malkovich
will be released simultaneously kate hudson
theaters and on pay TV. Next week will be released on DVD. Some say that kind meg ryan
release matthew perry
way the future, but theater owners are objecting.
Hope on horizon for liver, pancreatic cancer
Doctors have found ways to extend ernie fletcher
lives matt blunt
patients who have liver and pancreatic tumors, two most difficult cancers …