美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-10

1. Tens of thousands of people wrapped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched peacefully to mark the 4th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. The government stepped up security in the capital, banning all vehicles for 24 hours. 2. Some of the freed Br

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-09

1. Iraqi flags are flying throughout Baghdad as residents prepare to mark the 4th anniversary of the city's fall in the US-led invasion of Iraq. Supporters of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr planned to mark the day with a demonstration in Najaf. 2. P

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-24

1. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76. He is credited with engineering the collapse of the Soviet Union and introducing a market economy to the former communist state. 2. Thousands of Virginia Tech students paid solemn

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-04-12

1. All charges are dropped against three former Duke University lacrosse players, accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party. The top prosecutor in North Carolina concludes no attack occurred. And the players were victims of an overreachin

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-22

1. For the second straight day, the Lebanese army and militants clashed in Tripoli. The military says the militants have ties to al-Qaeda. It's the worst eruption of internal violence since the country's civil war ended in 1990. 2. The number of peo

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-24

1. U.S. military officials have still not confirmed whether a body found in the Euphrates River is that of one of three American soldiers abducted about two weeks ago. Iraqi police say the male victim appeared to be wearing an American military unif

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-25

1. President Bush says he doesn't expect the violence in Iraq to abate anytime soon. He says he expects heavy fighting to continue for the next few months with more American and Iraqi casualties. 2. The head of the UN nuclear agency says he agrees w

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-26

1. Millions of Americans on the go this Memorial Day weekend are taking a hit at the gas pumps. Gas prices are above the 3.20 level. However, experts say so far the prices aren't preventing a majority of Americans from traveling. 2. School children

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-27

1. President Bush opened the Memorial Day weekend with a call for Americans to rededicate themselves to the war on terror. He's also asking everyone to pray for the troops overseas and remember those who lost their lives on the battlefield. 2. Meant

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-29

1. The body of New England Patriots player Marquise Hill was found today just a day after he was reported missing following a jet ski accident on Lake Pontchartrain. Hill's body was discovered by searchers about a quarter mile from where the former L

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-30

1. A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights from Paris and from Prague earlier this month. We have no suspicion that this patient was highly infectious. In f

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-31

1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's searching for 80 people who may have come in contact with the man infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis. The man is now quarantined but he took two trans-Atlantic flights beforehan

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-01

1. We now know the identity of the federally-quarantined tuberculosis patient. He is Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney. He is now at a Denver hospital that specializes in respiratory disorders. Speaker shuttled around Europe with the in

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-02

1. The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a rare strain of tuberculosis is said to be doing well at a Denver hospital. The attending physician says Andrew Speaker has a very low level of contagion. Meantime friends of Speaker's are coming to his defens

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-03

1. Authorities in New York say they've disrupted a terror plot that could have caused unthinkable devastation. Three people are under arrest with investigators looking for a fourth. The plot targeted the pipeline network feeding jet fuel to Kennedy

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-04

1. Officials in Somalia say the Prime Minister has survived a suicide bombing. The attack struck just outside his home in Mogadishu. At least five people were killed in the bombing which some in the government blamed on an al-Qaeda-linked group. 2. A

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-05

1. A video released by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents claims the three American soldiers who vanished after an ambush last month are dead. The video shows close-ups of two ID cards as well as credit cards and American and Iraqi money. 2. An indictment w

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-06

1. A third test for TB bacteria turns up negative for Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer quarantined in Denver with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. His chances of spreading the disease are low and he could soon leave his isolation room. 2. It's

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-07

1. There is a TB talk on the Hill. Two committees probe the case of Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer who crossed international borders with a rare drug resistance strain of tuberculosis. I was also told I was not contagious. I was told I was not a

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-08

1. The man accused of abducting and killing a teenager from Kansas has made a brief appearance in court. Edwin Hall is charged with murdering Kelsey Smith whose body was found in a wooded area yesterday. 2. The small country of Azerbaijan could play