Kosovo's Prime Minister says a $1 billion (euro735,445 million) deal has been signed with American-Turkish consortium Bechtel-Enka to build a highway across Kosovo.
Hashim Thaci says the project, the most ambitious in Kosovo's recent history, is "a dream come true" for the newly independent country.
The project set to start this …
Reds re-sign Wohlers
Mark Wohlers stayed with the Cincinnati Reds, agreeing today to aone-year contract with a team option for 2002. Reds general managerJim Bowden said the reliever turned down more lucrative offers. "Thatshows what kind of person he is and the loyalty he has for the Reds,"Bowden said. "He wants us to reap the benefits of the hard work ourstaff put into his rehabilitation the last couple of years."
Tigers' Jefferies retires
Gregg Jefferies, facing a future as a role player at 33, hasdecided to retire. The two-time All-Star has a .289 career averagewith 126 homers and 663 RBIs in 14 seasons with the New York Mets,Kansas City, St. Louis, …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Clinton says US 'deeply regrets' …
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the United States will share new information about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida's operations with its allies as soon as possible.
Holder has said that with the death of bin Laden, "the world is safer, but the world is not safe" — and that the U.S. and its allies must still battle the "scourge" of terrorism.
Holder says U.S. …
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A 10-year-old disabled girl severely burned byscalding bath water died after going more than a week without medicaltreatment, authorities said. Her father and a female relative werecharged in her death.
"If you'd see the photos and the condition that she was left in -just to lay in that bed with all those burns," said Police ChiefCharles Kellar. "I mean, it was horrible."
Quiniece Lockett was blind, partially paralyzed and had cerebralpalsy, Kellar said.
Police said her father, Shaun A. Lockett, 32, and anotherrelative, Lashawn S. Brown, 27, were charged with criminal homicide,endangering a child's welfare and two counts of conspiracy. They …
WASHINGTON - In a striking reach across party lines, the White House and key lawmakers agreed Thursday on a sweeping immigration plan to grant legal status to millions of people in the country unlawfully.
Sealed after months of secretive bargaining, the deal mandates bolstered border security and a high-tech employment verification system to prevent illegal workers from getting jobs.
President Bush said the proposal would "help enforce our borders but equally importantly, it'll treat people with respect."
The compromise brought together an unlikely alliance of liberal Democrats such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and conservative Republicans such as …
A University of Missouri graduate student found to have swine flu after traveling to China has generated widely different responses from officials in two countries.
The 30-year-old man has the first confirmed case of swine flu in mainland China, where at least 60 people who had been on an airplane with him have been quarantined and authorities have sent text messages to mobile phones nationwide asking any other fellow passengers to report to the Beijing disease prevention bureau.
The University of Missouri, however, is not advising campus members to take any additional precautions other than basic hygiene, spokesman Christian Basi said. Columbia/Boone …
