It's known in Europe as the wine lake: a vast reservoir of nearly a billion excess bottles, so much that if they were all emptied, they could fill 300 Olympic-size swimming pools.
JERUSALEM–Israeli and Palestinian leaders will resume regular contacts over political and security issues, an essential if modest step toward actual peace negotiations that resulted from several days of intensive U.S. mediation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday morning.
AP - A day-care center owner hijacked a busload of his students and teachers and drove them to Manila's city hall Wednesday to demand better housing and education for the children.
AP - The Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March, triggering an instant veto threat from the White House in a deepening dispute between Congress and commander in chief.
AP - Volatile weather swept through Southern California on Tuesday, delivering downpours, hail, snow, and fierce winds that capsized boats and toppled power lines and trees. Nearly 185,000 customers lost power.
Two gunmen took a group of schoolchildren and their teachers hostage in central Manila this morning, authorities in the Philippines capital said. "Our hostages are 32 kids and 2 teachers," a sign in the bus window said. "We have 2 grenades, an Uzi and a .45-caliber pistol." The sign also said: "We want housing and schooling for 145 kids in a daycare center."
Defying President Bush, the Democratic-led Senate turned back a Republican attempt to remove a call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq from a $124 billion war-spending bill, Tuesday.
The mother of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former NFL player killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in April 2004, on Tuesday rejected the latest explanation from the U.S. military about her son's death. The latest investigation "only presented the points of view of the soldiers in the vehicle" who fatally shot her son, Mary Tillman said on ESPN Radio's "Dan Patrick Show."