A forgotten piece of evidence in a rape case has led to the DNA identification of a suspect in at least 24 other rapes and sexual assaults from New York to Maryland.
AP - The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, completed a maiden flight Wednesday that took it over the Pyrenees mountains, a milestone for aviation and for the European aircraft-maker's battle with American rival Boeing Co.
AP - An intercity passenger train collided with a bus that tried to dash through a railroad crossing in northwestern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 35 people, officials said.
AP - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a Mideast peace conference in Moscow this fall, as he and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak ended their landmark meeting by urging the United Nations to play a larger role in Iraq.
A female member of Iraq's transitional National Assembly was assassinated today in Baghdad, the city's emergency police said. Lamee'a Abd Khidawi was shot to death when she answered the door to her house, police said. Khidawi is the first assembly member to be killed since the January 30 elections.
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus double-decker A380, completed its maiden flight today Toulouse, France. Thousands of onlookers cheered as the white-and-blue "superjumbo" jet took off. In a passenger layout, the jet has 555 seats. Some passenger planes also will have cocktail bars, double beds and massage parlors. Airbus also says some jets may have jacuzzis and mini-casinos.
She was an unknown nurse who came out of the blue to marry a world-famous enigma and give him two children, all while under the unyielding glare of the media's spotlight.