A jet engine that could reduce flight times between London and Sydney to 2 hours is ready for launch in Australia.

Reuters - U.S. stock futures dipped on Thursday after design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. gave a disappointing outlook after hours.

AP - One group of welfare recipients worked at least 20 hours a week and agreed to take classes at the local community college.

AP - A raucus rally supporting leftist President Hugo Chavez stranded the U.S. ambassador and his delegation inside a social club for more than two hours Wednesday, officials said.

AP - His portraits hang in homes across Venezuela. Loyal "Chavistas" cheer him on during folksy speeches that last up to seven hours and end up in print for sale on street corners. Admirers often say he embodies the spirit of Simon Bolivar, South America's 19th century independence hero.

Reuters - Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier, said on Wednesday it would begin offering ringtones of live performances from "American Idol" made within 24 hours of the show's broadcast.

Reuters - Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier, said on Wednesday it would begin offering ringtones of live performances from "American Idol" made within 24 hours of the show's broadcast.

Prosecutors in Ocala, Florida, dropped charges Tuesday against a former teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student. The decision, announced hours after a judge rejected a plea deal for Debra Lafave, means the victim won't have to testify.

Prosecutors dropped charges Tuesday against a former Tampa, Florida, teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student. The decision, announced hours after a judge rejected a plea deal for Debra Lafave, means the victim won't have to testify.

AFP - Top officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States wrapped up more than four hours of talks on the Iranian nuclear crisis here but failed to agree on a clear strategy to coax Tehran into foregoing nuclear arms.

AP - Communist rebels attacked an army patrol and a police post and booby-trapped a blocked highway, in escalating violence that claimed as many as 17 lives over 24 hours.

AP - The emergencies were startlingly similar: a huge, swirling storm bearing down on coastal areas with frightening inevitability. Within a few hours of the most powerful cyclone in decades hitting Australia's northeastern coast Monday, state and federal governments had declared a state of emergency, prepared Black Hawk helicopters to run rescue missions and announced cash payouts for victims.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - Donald Trump and wife Melania are the proud parents of a baby boy. The name of the newest Trump has not been announced. Trump says the new mother was in labor for eight hours and both mother and baby are doing well. Trump, 59, has four...

The Sporting News - Wait, who's that -- No. 16 in Dodger blue? The guy walking like Captain Ahab? Yes, it's catcher Pat Borders, that Pat Borders, World Series MVP. From 14 years ago. Borders is 42 and has played a whopping 295 games since 1996, which puts him even with Queen Elizabeth, a U.S. Congressman and portable heaters in Riyadh based on hours worked in the past decade.

AP - Arbitrators' efforts to help end a six-week strike by public workers in southwestern Germany failed Monday when negotiators rejected their proposal for solving the dispute over working hours.

AP - The Yankees are just two hours up the road, but nowhere in sight.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Los Angeles, California (AHN)—Hours before a first-round game in the national college basketball championship, police evacuated San Diego State University's Cox Arena when a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a possible problem at a hot dog stand. College spokesman...

Reuters - When it comes to sex and romance, ageing Canadian baby boomers spend a lot more time watching television or surfing the net, according to a new study. The survey by pollsters Ipsos Reid, commissioned by Pfizer Inc., the maker of Viagra, found that Canadians between the ages of 40 and 64 spend an average of 15 minutes a day on sex and romance, but can spend as much as five hours a day watching TV or surfing the Internet.

AP - The Senate on Thursday passed an election-year budget plan without President Bush's tax cuts and Medicare curbs, hours after lifting the ceiling on the national debt to $9 trillion.

Reuters - When it comes to sex and romance, ageing Canadian baby boomers spend a lot more time watching television or surfing the net, according to a new study. The survey by pollsters Ipsos Reid, commissioned by Pfizer Inc., the maker of Viagra, found that Canadians between the ages of 40 and 64 spend an average of 15 minutes a day on sex and romance, but can spend as much as five hours a day watching TV or surfing the Internet.