Bush (Web promotion) looks to Pentagon to take lead in disasters Houston

Bush (Web promotion) looks to Pentagon to take lead in disasters Houston

Bush looks to Pentagon to take lead in disasters
Houston Chronicle - 6 hours ago By JULIE MASON. BATON ROUGE - President Bush indicated Sunday that he may ask Congress to put the Pentagon in charge of the response to domestic disasters such as the two recent hurricanes � a change that

Resurgence of violence hits Baghdad
Boston Globe - 4 hours ago By Tarek El-Tablawy, Associated Press | September 26, 2005. BAGHDAD -- Gunmen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ambushed an Iraqi patrol in an eastern Baghdad slum yesterday, and US forces joined

Palm to launch Windows based Treo
PC Pro - 1 hour ago The previously unthinkable is set to happen today. Palm is widely rumoured to be about to announce a Treo PDA/mobile phone running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The announcement is set to be made

Polish Center-Right Wins Election Victory
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer. Voters in Poland's parliamentary elections shunned the nation's scandal-prone government of ex-communists to embrace two center-right parties that have promised tax

World Bank, IMF Agree on Debt Relief, Turn Attention to Trade
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank and International Monetary Fund concluded their annual meetings yesterday with an agreement to write off as much as $57.5 billion in debt to ease the burden on impoverished countries.

Helicopters Scour Louisiana Floodwaters
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago By JULIA SILVERMAN. PERRY, La. (AP) - People checking their hurricane-hit homes and towns returned with stories of flooding to the rooftops, coffins and refrigerators bobbing in the water, and stilts where their houses once stood.