AFP - US President George W. Bush lost his special trade power at midnight Saturday as opposition Democrats flexed their new grip on Congress and refused White House appeals to renew it.
AP - A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow’s airport on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before.
AP - A fast-moving wildfire burning in eastern Utah killed three men who were working in a hay field, authorities said.
AP - A military judge has refused a Pentagon request to reconsider his dismissal of charges against a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan.
AP - Seven All-Stars, one hit.
AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles hurtling down on Gaza three times Saturday, killing seven Palestinian militants and sending a clear signal that Israel would not tolerate attacks following Hamas’ bloody takeover of the coastal strip.
AFP - Disgraced former president Moshe Katsav was a "serial sex offender," Israel's attorney general said Saturday as tens of thousands rallied against a plea deal which dropped initial rape charges.
AFP - Michael Schumacher and Zinedine Zidane, both eschewing to wear a crash helmet, sped around the Magny-Cours circuit in a high-speed Ferrari Enzo FXX sports car on Saturday morning to help raise funds for two charities.
AP - A 105-year-old Cuban-born man who had at least one pending wish finally had it fulfilled — he became a U.S. citizen.
AFP - Iran on Saturday dismissed the threat of fresh UN sanctions and announced an impending visit by a senior atomic watchdog official for talks over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
AFP - A US newscaster refused to lead her program with a story about Paris Hilton, arguing she was fed up with media attention given to the controversial Hollywood socialite.
Reuters - A U.S. military judge for the Guantanamo
war crimes tribunals has refused to reinstate the charges
against a Canadian prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier
in Afghanistan.
AP - New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own.
AP - For years, the public calendars of two top federal drug safety officials were largely blank — devoid of the required detail about their contacts with the industry they regulated.
Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Friday it
would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners on their right to
challenge their indefinite confinement, a test of President
George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.