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  • Panel: FBI slow to join terrorism fight
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The FBI has lagged in becoming an effective intelligence-gathering unit nearly seven years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a U.S. congressional report said.
  • Judge says young girl 'welcomed' pedophile
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:46 PM
    MANCHESTER, England, May 9 (UPI) -- A British man who had sexual relations with an 11-year-old girl avoided prison when the judge decided she "welcomed" the man's flirtations.
  • Canadian train quarantined after death
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:15 PM
    SUDBURY, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- Canadian officials in northern Ontario quarantined a Via Rail passenger train Friday after a passenger died and 10 others became sick.
  • Food group resumes relief trips to Myanmar
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM
    YANGON, Myanmar, May 9 (UPI) -- The World Food Program said Friday it will send relief aid airplanes to Myanmar despite the government's seizure of previous aid shipments.
  • Bin Laden's 'spiritual ambassador' freed
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM
    LONDON, May 9 (UPI) -- A radical Muslim cleric believed to be the "spiritual ambassador in Europe" for Osama bin Laden is to be freed on bail, a British judge ruled.
  • McCain's 2000 vote for Bush up for debate
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Whether Sen. John McCain voted for President George Bush in the 2000 U.S. presidential election is being debated by a liberal blogger and McCain's office.
  • Fritzl recalls start of incest family
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children says, "I am not the beast the media make me to be."
  • Canada to probe U.S. warships sunk in 1813
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    HAMILTON, Ontario, May 9 (UPI) -- The wrecks of two U.S. warships that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario in 1813 are set to be explored by Canadian scientists using submersible high-tech robotics.
  • Lebanese MP asks army to protect Tripoli
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) -- A member of the ruling alliance in the Lebanese parliament, worried about the city in the wake of violence in Beirut, Friday asked the army to defend Tripoli.
  • Americans adopt major driving cutbacks
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM
    MCLEAN, Va., May 9 (UPI) -- As gasoline prices skyrocket to $4 a gallon, many Americans are seriously cutting back on driving and tightening their budgets, government data indicates.
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    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
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  • Murder charge possible in incest case
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM
    VIENNA, May 9 (UPI) -- The 73-year-old Austrian who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children could face murder charges, prosecutors say.
  • 50-year-old plane wreckage to be retrieved
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:48 AM
    QUEBEC CITY, May 9 (UPI) -- Safety concerns have led officials in the Canadian province of Quebec to order the retrieval of a 50-year-old plane wreck containing four bodies from a lake.
  • Hezbollah gains control of western Beirut
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (UPI) -- Syrian Social Nationalist Party units were seen Friday entering Beirut to support Hezbollah's occupation of the city's western districts.
  • Colleges accept more wait-listed students
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:38 AM
    NEW YORK, May 9 (UPI) -- Several leading U.S. universities plan to accept significantly higher numbers of students from waiting lists this year than in the past, school officials said.
  • Cash concerns cancel Clinton events, ads
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:12 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The cash-strapped campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton has forced curtailments of political events and advertising as the primary season winds down, aides say.
  • Canadian iceberg activity unusually high
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM
    ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, May 9 (UPI) -- Iceberg activity off northeastern Canada is running almost double compared to all of last year's total, Canadian and U.S. officials say.
  • Marriott considers hotel in Green Zone
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:42 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- The major U.S.-based hotel company Marriott International is considering building a hotel in Baghdad's Green Zone, a Marriott official said.
  • Judge to review opinion on CIA tactics
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM
    WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- A U.S district judge in New York says he plans to review a controversial legal opinion related to specific CIA detainee interrogations.
  • Missing family of 7 found safe in Arctic
    • Published: May 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM
    IQALUIT, Nunavut, May 9 (UPI) -- A couple and their five children missing a week in the Canadian Arctic while traveling on a snowmobile have been found alive, police said.
SENATE CANCER
Lance Armstrong (C), cancer survivor and seven time Tour de France winner, and Steve Case (R), co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online, watch as Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, who is currently battling a recurrence of breast cancer, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Cancer challenges and opportunities in the 21st Century in Washington on May 8, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
Senate Health Committee investigates Cancer in Washington
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