GOP Pressed on Offshore Drilling Limits The Democrats' return to power is increasing pressure on House Republican leaders to accept a limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling. more Envoys: Hamas Accepts Peace Talk Plan  © The Associated Press McCain Edges Toward '08 Presidential Run  © The Associated Press Woods' Winning Streak Ends at HSBC  © The Associated Press 25 Years Later, Luke and Laura Wed Again It's been an eventful 25 years for Laura Spencer since marrying Luke in a fairy-tale wedding seen on television by 30 million people. more
Stock Fever Abates As Saudi Market Falls  © The Associated Press GOP Pressed on Offshore Drilling Limits The Democrats' return to power is increasing pressure on House Republican leaders to accept a limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling. more Grape Growers Loathe, Cheer 'Noble Rot' Things got fuzzy in the Dolce vineyard this harvest. The mold known as botrytis sneaked in with early rains, and once-pale green semillon grapes shriveled into purple, furry blobs. more Billionaires Set to Fight Over L.A Times Like a train wreck or a car accident, when rich people do battle, everybody stops to watch. Billionaires Ronald Burkle, Eli Broad and David Geffen haven't taken off the gloves but all signs point to them fighting for ownership of their troubled hometown newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. The fortunes of the Times, the nation's fourth-largest daily newspaper, are being watched closely by a newspaper industry beset by sales, staffing cutbacks and circulation drops. more Report: Deutsche Telekom CEO May Quit Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Kai-Uwe Ricke was expected to resign his post Sunday under pressure from disgruntled investors, a person familiar with the matter told Dow Jones Newswires. more
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Muslim Clerics Fight Polio in India  © The Associated Press Brazilian Woman Survives 6 Shots to Head A woman was released from the hospital a day after she was shot in the head six times in an attack police blamed on her ex-husband, Brazilian media reported Saturday. more Hunger Seen as Big Enemy in War on AIDS AIDS made Marie Lourdes Israel so sick she could barely move her bowed, stick-thin body. The medicine almost killed her. Her plight wasn't due to a problem with the drug, but with something more basic: She had no food, and taking the AIDS cocktail on an empty stomach caused severe stomach aches, dizziness and nausea. more Feds Probe Care at Ore. Mental Hospital Federal investigators are looking into patient care at the hospital made famous in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," where there have been reports of abuse, short staffing and overcrowding. more Broad Recall of Acetaminophen Under Way Check your medicine cabinet: Millions of bottles of the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen _ some sold as long as three years ago _ are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments. more
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Ex-MTV Execs Create Hip Internet Shows Shortly before dinner at a trendy new restaurant in the theater district, a production crew started setting up. They arranged lights, checked the cameras and put a microphone on the sushi chef Masatoshi "Gari" Sugio. Soon they would be filming at the Sushi of Gari 46 and interviewing the famed chef. more Korean War Dead Memorialized on the Web The message was simple: Write a letter to someone lost in the Korean War. Within a day, responses started pouring in for the latest effort by brothers Hal and Ted Barker to remember the war their father didn't like to discuss. In the three weeks since their plea went out, more than 500 letters and e-mails have arrived _ from daughters who lost their fathers to veterans who lost friends to schoolchildren thanking those who died for their freedom. more PlayStation 3 Makes Debut in Japan  © The Associated Press Motorola Buys Mobile Software Maker  © The Associated Press Next-Gen Gaming Consoles to Hit Stores  © The Associated Press
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