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A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure.

A man convicted this week for tainting grocery store baked items by sprinkling dried feces on the food is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.

Tropical Storm Beta formed Thursday off the coast of Nicaragua, extending this year’s record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season.

Belgium’s history of linguistic bickering between Flemings and Walloons entered a new phase this week when police arrested a Flemish woman for calling her Walloon husband lazy, Belgian media said on Thursday.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed “dismay” over the Iranian president’s comments urging the destruction of Israel. His comments?

About half of the 4,500 companies in the U.N. oil-for-food program, including Volvo and DaimlerChrysler, paid $1.8 billion kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Saddam Hussein‘s government, a U.N.-backed investigation said in a report released Thursday.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is focusing his investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity on whether White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove committed perjury, two lawyers involved in the case told CNN.

The BBC yesterday admitted that it had been forced to suspend its Blackberry email service after senior executives reported that portions of other people’s electronic conversations were appearing in the middle of their own messages.

So finally, we are come to it, Harriet Miers has asked the President to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court. Courting danger and ridicule for weeks now, President Bush has steadfastly stood behind his nominee, despite the fact that she might not have been a good candidate.

The son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has said he opposes possible sanctions against Syria in connection with the killing.