Listen up, parents: The flu medication Tamiflu could cause erratic behavior in children, like delirium, self-injuries, and hallucinations. That's the warning the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring on the Tamiflu product label. The agency made the decision earlier this week after reviewing reports of more than 100 adverse events linked to the use of Tamiflu, most of them occurring in children. One patient was a 14-year-old boy from Japan who fell to his death after climbing on his condominium balcony railing.
AP - The Pentagon said a convoy of civilians traveling near Nasiriyah was hijacked on Thursday, while earlier in the day the Shiite-led Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for the top leader of the country's Sunni minority. The move was certain to inflame already raging sectarian violence.
AP - President Bush opened a visit Friday to the wartime capital of this once-divided country, a trip that is stirring inevitable comparisons between the unpopular war in Iraq and the divisive conflict fought and lost in Vietnam more than three decades ago.
AP - Democrats embraced Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the first female House speaker in history on Thursday, then quickly snubbed her, selecting Steny Hoyer of Maryland as majority leader against her wishes.
Several security contractors, including four Americans, were abducted Thursday when a supply convoy was ambushed in southern Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman told CNN. Coalition forces were conducting a search, the spokesman said. A military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed the incident occurred at a checkpoint.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has opened a criminal investigation of former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned in September after his e-mails with teenage congressional pages came to light, a spokeswoman said Thursday.