Enron witness: Lay did not know
WASHINGTON -- Sherron Watkins, the Enron Corp. vice president who first raised concerns internally about the company's finances last August, told Congress on Thursday that she believed former executives Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow were chiefly to blame for Enron's demise, while longtime chairman Kenneth Lay did not comprehend the seriousness of the company's accounting problems.

Playing field emerges from death's shadow
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Kabul soccer stadium that became famous after the Taliban began using it for public executions and amputations was being spiffed up Thursday for its first big game since the Islamic militia fell from power.

Report: Pilgrims kill Afghan official
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A mob of Muslim pilgrims, angered by two-day flight delays en route to Mecca, attacked and killed Afghanistan's interim transportation minister at the airport here Thursday, the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera television network reported.

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Two wounded in airport attack
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Gunmen came within 50 yards of U.S. positions in an apparently well-organized attack on the main American base in southern Afghanistan that left two soldiers slightly injured, an Army spokesman said Thursday.