2005-05-01: TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese transport ministry in March issued a 'severe warning' to the operator of the train line where Japan's worst crash in over 40 years took place, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday.

2005-05-01: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First Lady Laura Bush grabbed the stage from President Bush at the White House correspondents annual dinner on Saturday and confessed to all his early bedtimes had turned her into a 'desperate housewife.'

2005-05-01: AP - In April 28-29 stories about allegations against former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, The Associated Press erroneously reported there had been a settlement with a woman threatening to sue the NAACP for Mfume's allegedly showing favoritism to another employee. Mfume said he didn't know whether a settlement had been reached or any terms. Lawyers involved in the case also declined to comment.

2005-05-01: AP - Keith Maydak's jail cells are roomier than most. Must be all that cyberspace. State and federal prisons don't let inmates use Internet computers behind bars — and the Allegheny County Jail doesn't either. Yet Maydak has answered a reporter's e-mails from the Pittsburgh jail, and later an Ohio lockup, while he awaits sentencing for violating probation on a 900-number phone scam that cost AT&T $550,000 dollars.

2005-05-01: Hundreds of communities have been waging fights against cellphone companies and the march of antennas into suburbia.

2005-05-01: AP - ChevronTexaco Corp.'s first-quarter profit edged up by 4 percent, but didn't live up to analysts' expectations because oil refinery outages prevented it from taking full advantage of the high gasoline prices that have been tormenting motorists.

2005-05-01: AFP - The Federal Reserve is expected to raise US interest rates again Tuesday to quell inflationary pressures in the world's biggest economy, despite evidence of slowing growth.

2005-05-02: AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi voiced firm opposition to European Union (EU) plans to lift a 16-year-old arms embargo on China, amid worsening ties between Tokyo and the economic giant.

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2005-05-02: In a bucolic pocket of the city, construction sites seem to be everywhere, and tall apartment buildings are going up.

2005-05-01: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the giant accounting firm, bowed to pressure from Parmalat and appeared to muzzle an auditor who was raising tricky questions about the Italian dairy group's finances up to 33 months ...