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	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:50 GMT

Mon, 23 May 05 19:53:33 GMT Five girls killed in bus crash

Five teenage girls are killed as a school bus with almost 50 children on board crashes in County Meath.

Tue, 24 May 05 00:55:35 GMT Car bomb blasts rock Iraqi town

A day of heavy bloodshed in Iraq ends with car bombs killing at least 20 in the northern town of Tal Afar.

Tue, 24 May 05 01:30:20 GMT 'Son's ecstasy joke' kills mother

A 15-year-old boy is accused of accidentally killing his mother by spiking a drink with ecstasy, police say.

	Christian Science Monitor \| Top Stories
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:50 GMT

Afghans left out of their own rebuilding

The short-term need to provide tangible improvements often trumps the long-term work of training Afghan workers.

Court upholds 'Beef: It's What's for Dinner'

The justices rule that First Amendment protections don't apply to the beef campaign, alienating some ranchers.

What Abbas wants from US

The Palestinian leader - and Bush - face new challenges to a fledgling Middle East democracy.

	NYT > Home Page
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:51 GMT

Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT Bipartisan Group in Senate Averts Judge Showdown

The compromise appeared to clear the way for the approval of at least some of President Bush's stalled nominees.

Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT Guidant Didn't Disclose a Flaw in Defibrillator for 3 Years

Guidant did not tell doctors or patients that a unit designed to shock a faltering heart contained a flaw that caused a small number of those units to malfunction.

Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT Supreme Court to Tackle Abortion Again After 5 Years

Despite technical questions, the case is likely to add more heat to the already superheated atmosphere surrounding the court.

	U.S. News & World Report
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:51 GMT

Mon, 23 May 2005 14:00:00 EST Not so quick on the trigger

Men–adult men, not just eager teenage boys–have a problem. About 25 percent of them reach orgasm almost as soon as they start to have intercourse. "The usual definition of premature ejaculation is within 2 minutes" of penetration, says Jean Fourcroy, a urologist and specialist in reproductive health in Bethesda, MD. But for some men it may be within 15 seconds. Not only is this unsatisfying sexually for both partners, but psychologists point out that the break in intimacy can lead to anger and emotional withdrawal, which can ruin relationships. Now, help from the pharmaceutical industry may be on the way, researchers said today at the American Urological Association meeting in San Antonio, TX.

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Giving the three fairies a new lease on life

Once upon a time, America' s workers were protected by three good fairies. "If you work all your life to build a new America and save when you can," the fairies promised, "we three will make your dreams of a secure and happy retirement come true." One of the fairies guarded personal savings against the ogres of inflation, another kept an eye on the gremlins in employers' pension plans, and the third--the grandest fairy of them all--had a cave full of gold coins piled up by all the workers in a magical scheme called Social Security.

Sat, 21 May 2005 18:00:00 EST Video Games

Battle of the video-game boxes

	Yahoo! News: Top Stories
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:52 GMT

Tue, 24 May 2005 03:13:21 GMT Senators Avert Showdown Over Filibusters (AP)

AP - In a dramatic reach across party lines, Senate centrists sealed a compromise Monday night that cleared the way for confirmation of many of President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, left others in limbo and preserved venerable filibuster rules.

Tue, 24 May 2005 03:31:55 GMT Car Bombings Across Iraq Kill Dozens (AP)

AP - A string of car bombs and suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 49 Iraqis and wounded more than 130 Monday, striking a Baghdad restaurant popular with police, a Shiite mosque and the home of a community leader near Mosul.

Tue, 24 May 2005 03:12:47 GMT Bush Rebuffs Karzai's Request on Troops (AP)

AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai left the White House on Monday with no promise of more control over thousands of American troops in his country and with strains in his relationship with the United States on full display.

	ABC News: International
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:53 GMT

Mon, 23 May 2005 23:33:13 -0400 Car Bombings Across Iraq Kill Dozens

Series of Car Bombings Kill at Least 49 Across Iraq; Gunmen Assassinate Top Security Official

Mon, 23 May 2005 21:06:53 -0400 Freed Detainee Details Alleged Abuse

Former Bagram Detainee Alleges Some Died in U.S. Custody

Mon, 23 May 2005 07:08:24 -0400 Why Insurgents Seek Victory by Suicide Bomb

Iraq Fighters Use Tried-and-True Method, But It Could Backfire

	Guardian Unlimited
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:54 GMT

Blair dash to shore up Africa plan

Tony Blair to undertake whirlwind tour of world leaders in the face of mounting evidence that his agenda for G8 presidency is crumbling due to US opposition.

BBC strike price 'worth paying'

48-hour BBC stoppage next week looks inevitable as director general insists on reforms.

A Balkan question

Six years after Nato put a halt to the conflict in Kosovo, Jonathan Steele returns to find a province desperate to keep a lid on its divisions.

	CNN.com
	last updated: Tue, 24 May 2005 02:34:54 GMT

Mon, 23 May 2005 23:25:47 EDT Deal brokered on judicial nominees

A deal to avert a showdown vote over President Bush's judicial nominees was struck on Monday by a bipartisan group of senators -- even as the Senate continued debating the future of one of the nominees. Arizona Republican John McCain said the seven Republicans and seven Democrats had brokered the deal to "avert a crisis" over the nominees.

Mon, 23 May 2005 23:43:17 EDT Girl buried alive thanks God for rescue

A police officer who came upon a 8-year-old girl buried in a Florida landfill said "hopelessness turned to hope" when a fellow officer saw a finger move. "Everybody jumped in and started taking the rocks off her," Sgt. Mike Hall recalled today, a day after police found the girl buried under boulders in a trash container's recycling bin in Lake Worth, south of West Palm Beach.

Mon, 23 May 2005 22:22:00 EDT Party celebrating assassination survival bombed

A car bomb exploded outside a popular Baghdad restaurant today at lunchtime, killing four Iraqis and wounding more than 110 others, an Iraqi emergency police official said. Earlier, gunmen killed an adviser to the office of Iraqi transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari in the capital's al-Mansur neighborhood, authorities said.