Top Stories Finance Technology Sports Politics World Science			See News Headlines  SUMMARIES Last Update: May 11 9:01am ET  Philippine Dropout Says May Have Sent 'Love Bug' - MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine computer school dropout under investigation over the 'Love Bug' virus may have mistakenly transmitted the crippling cyber-worm but did not mean any harm, his lawyer said Thursday. Onel de Guzman, a 24-year-old former student of AMA Computer College (AMACC) in the Philippine capital, held a news conference with his lawyer Thursday after investigators had summoned him and his sister Irene for questioning over the virus. Wildfire Burns Many Homes in Evacuated Los Alamos - WHITE ROCK, N.M. (Reuters) - A raging wildfire stormed into the New Mexico town of Los Alamos, home of the biggest U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory, destroying or damaging two-thirds of the town's houses just hours after all 11,000 residents were evacuated, officials said early Thursday. Flying embers set off spot fires Wednesday on the grounds of Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the first atomic bomb in 1945, and one blaze swept around a concrete weapons testing building before being extinguished. Lab officials said plutonium and high explosives were securely sealed in disaster-proof bunkers of concrete and steel. Battle Over Elian to Resume in Atlanta Court - MIAMI (Reuters) - While Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez stays in seclusion with his family near Washington, the tangled fight over his future returns to an Atlanta court Thursday with his father for the first time a player in the legal drama. The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta is scheduled to hear brief arguments Thursday on a claim by Elian's Miami relatives that the 6-year-old should be allowed to pursue political asylum in the United States because he would be persecuted if he returns to communist-ruled Cuba. U.S. Retail Sales Fall in April - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell 0.2 percent in April, the first such decline in almost two years, the Commerce Department said Thursday in a report suggesting recent interest rate rises may have started to cool the economy. Retail sales fell 0.2 percent to a seasonally-adjusted $266 billion after an upwardly revised 0.5 percent gain in March. That was the first decline since a 0.1 percent contraction in August of 1998. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a gain of 0.4 percent in April. U.S. General's Sex Complaint Confirmed - Officials - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army inspector general has concluded that the service's highest-ranking female general was the victim of improper sexual advances by a fellow Army general, defense officials said Thursday. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said the inquiry substantiated the claim of Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the first woman to earn three stars, that Maj. Gen. Larry Smith touched her in a sexual manner and tried to kiss her in her Pentagon office in 1996. Pope Names Egan New Archbishop of New York - by Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul has named Bishop Edward Michael Egan of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to be the new archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal John O'Connor, the Vatican said Thursday. The appointment of Egan as the ninth archbishop of the city was widely expected by Church sources after O'Connor died on May 3 following a long illness linked to a brain tumor. He was 80. Serb Crowds Attack U.S. KFOR Soldiers in Kosovo - PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Stone-throwing Serbs attacked U.S. soldiers of the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo Wednesday night, injuring one soldier, KFOR said Thursday. The attacks took place in Vrbovac near the southern town of Vitina. S.Carolina Passes Confederate Flag Bill - COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - The South Carolina House of Representatives, ending two days of racially charged debate, voted Wednesday to remove Confederate flags flying from the statehouse dome and in both chambers of the state legislature. The Republican-led House voted 63-56 for a Senate-backed compromise to fly a square version of the flag, widely seen as a symbol of racism against blacks in America, from a flagpole near a Civil War memorial on the capitol grounds. UK Scientists Urge Caution on Mobile Phone Use - LONDON (Reuters) - Top scientists Thursday warned parents to curb children's use of mobile phones and called on the British government to toughen up rules for phone transmitter masts as a precaution against potential health risks. Sir William Stewart, head of a government inquiry into mobile safety, said while there was no evidence so far to suggest a health risk to the whole population, early findings pointed to 'subtle effects' on brain function. British Body Recommends Stents for Heart Disease - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advisory medical agency recommended the use of stents to treat coronary heart disease Thursday in a decision that should remove any doubts about the treatment or inconsistencies in its availability. The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) said the minimally invasive procedure for clogged arteries should be given to patients with angina, heart-attack victims and patients who will have a balloon angioplasty, in which a balloon is used to open the artery.		Login Check Email
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