Demonstrators pulled a float portraying a prisoner being beaten at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, part of a protest by several thousand people against visiting United States President George Bush.

LONDON -- Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, women there are no better off than under the rule of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

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Published February 22, 2005, 3:34 PM CST

A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit filed two years ago on behalf of United Airlines workers who contend the now-defunct employee stock ownership plan was mismanaged, costing them billions of dollars.

My grandson was choking on food at his girlfriends home. The mother called 911. They sent an ambulance and several squad cars. The police surmised that he had been drinking or doing drugs and tased my grandson 16 times! He wound up in ICU and still has problems. We are suing our police department and the city of Portage for police brutality. No, they didn't use a gun, thankfully, but this was a medical emergency.
Tasers were in the hands of Rambo style policemen and it has harmed and hurt our entire family.

Iran has begun publicly preparing for a possible U.S. attack, as tensions mount between the Bush administration and this country's hard-line leaders over Tehran's purported nuclear weapons program. "Iran would respond within 15 minutes to any attack by the United States or any other country," an Iranian official close to the conservative clerics who run the country's security and military apparatus said on condition of anonymity.

The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday the United States was planning to assassinate him, but offered no evidence to support his accusation.

American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect slipped into the hands of insurgents.