AP - One group of welfare recipients worked at least 20 hours a week and agreed to take classes at the local community college.

AP - Inga made a stack of pancakes, packed them carefully in her bag and sped to a small tent camp in the center of Minsk, eager to provide homemade food to opposition activists.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Prince Rupert, British Columbia (AHN) - A ferry transporting over a hundred passengers along a scenic route near Vancouver Island hit a rock and sank, however the passengers and crew all escaped with only minor injuries. Rescue agency spokeswoman, Capt. Leah...

AFP - The United States will not discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions in future talks with the Islamic Republic about the conflict in Iraq, a senior US diplomat said.

AFP - Bitter rivals India and Pakistan will cooperate with each other to check crime, officials said after investigators from the two countries held talks for the first time in 17 years.

AP - U.S. intelligence agencies relied on such tactics as spies and spy planes planes to closely monitor France's nuclear weapons capability following World War II, newly declassified documents show.

Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission should encourage competition for TV viewers by ensuring that telephone companies entering the business can buy access to programming, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.

Reuters - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Tuesday he would not hesitate to urge Congress to give his agency the authority to regulate security at chemical plants, a feared target of attacks.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - According to the North Korean official news agency, the North says it has the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says the North has built atomic weapons to counter the U.S....

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - According to the North Korean official news agency, the North says it has the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says the North has built atomic weapons to counter the U.S....

Reuters - North Korea said it was prepared to launch a pre-emptive military strike and it would not bow to U.S. pressure to give up its nuclear weapons, its official media said in separate reports on Tuesday.

AFP - The UN Security Council was to resume talks on a Franco-British statement pressing Iran to suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

AP - North Korea suggested Tuesday it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States, according to the North's official news agency. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the North had built atomic weapons to counter the U.S. nuclear threat.

Reuters - Australia's top intelligence agency is promoting the chance to go shopping during work as one of the benefits of working as a spy, using case studies from real agents to try to attract new recruits.

AP - The scientist who stunned the medical world with claims he created the first cloned human embryos and extracted stem cells from them — research later found to have been faked — was fired Monday by South Korea's most prestigious university.

AP - The first of three releases of more Canada lynx in the wilds of Colorado is set for April 1 as the state Division of Wildlife continues efforts to restore the longhaired, reclusive cat to the state.

AFP - A Russian and US astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shifted their Soyuz space vessel to a new mooring to free up docking space for the arrival of Brazil's first man in space, the Russian Space Agency said.

Reuters - An FBI agent testified in the sentencing trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday his superiors at the agency repeatedly blocked his efforts to warn of a possible terror attack.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Uzbekistan has ordered the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to leave the country within a month. The UN refugee agency says its entire office has been told to close, a development that came as a surprise. UNHCR described such an order as...