Under rubble, handcuffs turn into escape tool
Sometimes, survival can come down to the smallest of turns. It did for two police officers.

Anthrax facts: Safety and mail cleanup
Q. With discoveries of anthrax spores at new locations, is it more likely that some will turn up on ordinary mail and in our homes?

Uncertainty will mean use of more antibiotics
Is it anthrax? Is it flu? Or is it "just a virus," as doctors call a long list of other hard-to-identify, lesser microbes?

Gen. Franks: Cities not priority in war
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- The commander of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan said the capture of key cities in the country is not the top U.S. priority, even as Afghanistan opposition groups say they are launching a drive to seize Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif.

Doubts grow that air power alone can vanquish Taliban
WASHINGTON -- After more than three weeks of inconclusive bombing in Afghanistan, the Bush administration is facing the same question that reverberated through the last two major U.S. military engagements: Can air power do the job by itself?

U.N. to Taliban: Stop looting aid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Tuesday to return looted U.N. property and safeguard what is left of U.N. humanitarian operations in that country.

America strikes notebook
Proposal would strengthen laws for health emergencies

Blair speaks out to uplift allied cause
LONDON -- The al-Qaida terrorist group will kill again unless it is stopped, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday in a speech urging Western nations to support the war in Afghanistan.