Reuters - The sun-drenched beaches of southeast
Florida lure tourists from all over the world. But few of them
may realize that a torrent of human waste is dumped silently
every day into the seemingly pristine waters offshore.
AP - Suzanne Kreuziger is a registered nurse who uses e-mail almost exclusively to communicate with friends. But when it comes to reaching her doctor, there's a frustrating firewall.
AP - Yahoo Inc. delivered first-quarter results that eclipsed analysts' modest expectations, but the performance did little to support the Internet pioneer's demands for software maker Microsoft Corp. to raise its takeover bid above $45 billion.
Reuters - The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
will cost the United States less than the $170 billion estimate
given earlier this year by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the
Pentagon's budget chief said on Tuesday.
Reuters - The United States arrested an
84-year-old American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel
secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the
1980s, in a case linked to the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal
that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations.
Reuters - Cuba launched a blistering attack on the
wives of imprisoned dissidents on Tuesday, accusing them of
working with its arch-enemy, the United States, to subvert
one-party socialist rule.