An Iraqi reporter and interpreter for The Times died in Iraq?s murderous turmoil, which is at a point where families never know their loved ones? killers.
U.S. News put 5,462 medical centers through progressively finer screens to create the 16 specialties rankings in the 2007 edition of America's Best Hospitals. Just 173 hospitals made it into the rankings.
AP - Two top Republicans cast aside President Bush's pleas for patience on Iraq Friday and proposed legislation demanding a new strategy by mid-October to restrict the mission of U.S. troops.
AP - North Korea was poised to take its first step in nearly five years toward scaling back its nuclear weapons program with U.N. inspectors en route to the North Saturday to monitor the shutdown of its sole operating atomic reactor.
AP - The first bodies from the sinking of a 420-foot ship that ran into Typhoon Man-yi were recovered, while three more survivors were found, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Nine crew members were dead or missing.
A federal prosecutor wants a district attorney to stop giving out copies of a videotape used as evidence in a teenage sex case that has drawn national attention. The tape shows a 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson having oral sex with a 15-year-old. Now the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia says possession of the tape under an open records law could break child porn laws.
A 27-year-old Indian national, detained in Australia, has been charged in connection with terrorism incidents in Britain last month, Australian authorities told CNN Friday.
Two leading Republican senators announced Friday they want to demand President Bush offer a plan to start reducing U.S. forces in Iraq by the end of the year.