Reuters - Google Inc. will replace oil and gas producer Burlington Resources Inc. in the S&P 500 Index, S&P said on Thursday, sending the Internet search leader's shares up more than 7 percent.

AP - The United States charged 50 leaders of Colombia's largest guerrilla group with sending more than $25 billion worth of cocaine around the world to finance their fight at home, a federal indictment that depicts the rebels as major narco-terrorists.

AP - Barry Bonds tried to keep his name out of the BALCO scandal, sending his lawyer into meetings with company representatives to ask for protection, according to a new book.

Reuters - Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. on Wednesday posted lower quarterly net income on acquisition-related costs and gave a disappointing outlook, sending its shares down nearly 4 percent.

AP - The United States indicted 50 leaders of Colombia's largest guerrilla group, charging them with sending more than $25 billion worth of cocaine around the world to finance terrorism at home.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista until after this year's holiday shopping season, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.

AP - The finance section Google Inc. unveiled Tuesday continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site that seems increasingly interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending them elsewhere.

AFP - A 50-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in jail after he admitted sending hoax letters more than 25 years ago to detectives hunting one of Britain's most notorious serial killers.

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AP - A powerful tropical cyclone ripped the roofs off buildings and uprooted trees, tearing across Australia's northeastern coast with powerful winds that kept emergency workers from responding to pleas from terrified residents.

AP - Iraq's former interim prime minister said the increasing attacks across his country can only be described as a civil war, and that the United States and Europe could be touched by spreading violence, according to an interview aired Sunday.

Reuters - Leaving Iraq now would be like handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a column published on Sunday, the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

AP - The promised release of two hostages held for six months by leftist rebels failed to take place Saturday — with the government blaming jungle rains and relatives saying the state sabotaged the handover by sending troops to the region.

AP - In an instant, stunned witnesses watched as a pickup truck plowed through a plate glass window into the waiting room of a medical clinic at a strip mall, triggering screams inside and sending debris everywhere. Three people were killed in Friday's crash, including the receptionist and a mother and her teenage son.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Atlanta, GA (AHN)—Sending its shares up more than 10 percent, the No. 1 book retailer, Barnes & Noble Inc. reported better-than-expected fourth period profit and forecast earnings for the current quarter above Wall Street estimates. Bookseller Barnes...

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Kilauea, Hawaii (AHN) - An 1890s-era plantation dam failed in the hills above northern Kauai, Hawaii, sending water and mud through two homes and wiping out the only highway. Searchers found one person dead and are looking for at least seven others, some of...

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Washington DC (AHN) - The U.S. military announces it is sending an Army battalion of about 700 soldiers to Iraq from their base in Kuwait to provide additional security during the holiday of Ashura. Three military officers released the previously unpublicized...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the accounting firm H&R Block, sending the company's shares plunging.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the accounting firm H&R Block, sending the company's shares plunging.

AP - A dam on the Hawaiian island of Kauai apparently failed Tuesday, sending torrents of water gushing from a reservoir to the Pacific Ocean, the Coast Guard said. Seven people were reported missing.