The fourth assessment of an international network of climate experts said today that centuries of warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action.
A much-anticipated assessment of Iraq forecasts that the sectarian strife will continue to fracture the country without bold actions by Iraqi politicians.
In the debate raging in Washington over Presidents Bush's new Iraq strategy, both his backers and critics will find something to hold on to in the intelligence community's new assessment of the Iraq conflict. But the grim National Intelligence Estimate, subtitled "A Challenging Road Ahead," does not offer much encouragement that anything in Iraq will get much better anytime soon.
About 11 percent of American babies are born prematurely, which can cause breathing difficulties, learning disabilities, or even death. Yet the current therapies available often fail to halt early labor for more than a day or two, and little research exists to show whether they're effective at preventing health problems in infants. Now a recent finding published in the current issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests that one such therapy, a nitroglycerin patch, might lead to better outcomes for babies, even though it doesn't appear to delay the onset of birth by more than a few days.
AP - Storms carrying the state's deadliest tornado in a decade cut a path across central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people, damaging hundreds of homes and littering fields with clothes, furniture and splintered lumber.
AP - The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.
AP - The nation's unemployment rate climbed to a four-month high of 4.6 percent as somewhat wary employers added fewer new jobs in January. Wage gains were more modest.
Iraqis battling Iraqis in spreading sectarian conflicts have eclipsed al Qaeda attacks as the biggest source of violence in the war-ravaged country, a new National Intelligence Estimate concluded Friday. Making Iraq safer will be "daunting", the report says.
Emergency teams are searching for victims of storms and likely tornadoes that ripped across Florida Friday, killing at least 14 people. There are fears people might be trapped under the wreckage of homes destroyed by the storms. One emergency official said the storms came at "the worst possible time," when most people were in bed.
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