As Yahoo investors wait to see how far their shares will fall after Microsoft withdrew its offer, a Google partnership is being considered as a lifeline.
AP - A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people and destroyed thousands of homes, state-run media said Sunday. Some dissident groups worried that the military junta running Myanmar would be reluctant to ask for international help.
AP - Barack Obama likened Hillary Rodham Clinton to President Bush for threatening to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacks Israel and called her gas-tax holiday a gimmick as he tried to fend off her challenge ahead of two pivotal Democratic primaries.
AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama today accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of echoing the "bluster" of President Bush when she said the U.S. would be able to "obliterate" Iran if it used nuclear weapons against Israel. Two days before critical primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton stood her ground, saying warnings of "massive retaliation" are needed.
As many as 350 people are feared dead after a tropical cyclone with winds up to 150 miles per hour slammed into Myanmar over the weekend, according to local media reports.
Josef Fritzl, who has confessed to holding his daughter captive and fathering seven kids by her, served 18 months in prison for an unrelated rape in 1967, his sister-in-law says. Despite that, she says, her sister continued to stay married to him in a desperate attempt to keep their family together.