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Investigators of the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq said yesterday there wasn't enough evidence to show that Secretary General Kofi Annan knew of a contract bid by his son's Swiss employer. However, they criticized the UN chief for not properly investigating possible conflicts of interest in the matter.
The international high representative in Bosnia has sacked one of the country's three co-presidents who had stayed on in office despite being charged with corruption. Paddy Ashdown told a news conference in Sarajevo that Dragan Covic will stand down immediately.
...In addition to the United States, several European countries - Britain, the Netherlands and Norway among them - have helped underwrite programs to develop democracy and civil society in this country. The effort played a crucial role in preparing the ground for the popular uprising that swept opposition politicians to power.
Crude futures gained only slightly on Wednesday, staying above $54 a barrel after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it has suspended talks on a second output increase.
Emergency workers are discovering the scale of destruction on the Indonesian island worst-hit by Monday's earthquake that killed about 1,000 people. The main town on Nias island, off Sumatra, has been largely ruined.
- Latest Earthquakes Surprise Seismologists
...every seismologist knew that the earthquake potential of nearby faults had increased, Yale University seismologist Jeffrey Park said in a telephone interview. "But I don't think any one of us would have predicted it would have occurred in three months, at this magnitude," he said
- Scientists Puzzled No Tsunami After Quake
Tsunami experts could not understand why Monday's forceful earthquake off Indonesia failed to produce massive waves similar to those generated by the Dec. 26 quake that killed at least 175,000 people in the same region.
One of three Romanian journalists abducted Monday night near their Baghdad hotel later sent a text message to her newsroom saying, "Help, this is not a joke, we've been kidnapped."
Questions multiplied Tuesday after the revelation that Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr.'s son is alleged to have been involved in the shooting that left 10 dead last week on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
A longtime Boy Scouts of America official who directed a task force to protect children from sexual abuse has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., 61, was accused of receiving images over the Internet in February of children engaging in oral sex, intercourse, and other sexually explicit conduct. The charges were filed by federal prosecutors March 21
A U.S. Army tank company commander being court-martialed in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, wounded Iraqi was described Tuesday by defense witnesses as "a tremendous soldier" and a man who cared about the Iraqi people.
A U.S. military court convicted a 23-year-old Army mechanic of willfully disobeying orders for refusing to perform duties after a year-long tour of Iraq, an army spokesman said Monday. Lemoine, who had condemned the invasion of Iraq, was charged for repeatedly refusing to obey orders from commanders between Jan. 10 and Feb. 15 at a base in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt.
Sgt. First Class Paul R. Smith, killed nearly two years ago defending his vastly outnumbered Army unit in a fierce battle with elite Iraqi troops for control of Baghdad's airport, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, administration officials said Tuesday
