NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip – Thousands of Israelis poured into the Gaza Strip‘s (search) main Jewish settlement bloc Wednesday to protest this summer’s planned withdrawal from the area Israel occupied for 38 years, but the rally was marred by low turnout and a mortar attack. A mortar shell fired Wednesday …

NEW YORK – A federal appeals court Friday ordered a lower court to reconsider a decision that allowed Energizer Holdings Inc. (ENR) to continue selling its Quattro razor during a patent fight with Gillette Co. (G). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled the lower court judge …

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Jiri Paroubek (search) was appointed prime minister Monday to replace Stanislav Gross (search), who resigned after weeks of political crisis sparked by a scandal over the financing of his luxury apartment. President Vaclav Klaus (search) announced Paroubek’s appointment hours after Gross’ resignation. Paroubek, 52, is vice …

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) met with staffers Tuesday in an effort to shore up his standing with some who believe the United Nations has suffered humiliation and damage to its reputation under his leadership. The United Nations, at the last minute, decided to close the meeting …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Investigators searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a mouthful of finger along with her chili at a Wendy’s restaurant last month. City police, working with their counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as they investigated how a …

LAUREL, Del. – For hours before an outburst of gunfire that killed two people in two states, Allison Lamont Norman (search) was broken down in tears of anguish, a witness said. “He fell on the floor and said ‘Help me, help me,”‘ Teresa DeShields, mother of his girlfriend, Kisha, said …

DALLAS – Who said you can’t make any money playing video games? The makers of the online sci-fi game “Entropia Universe” have come up with a way to let players withdraw the virtual cash they’ve amassed in the game as real money from select ATM machines. The game’s 400,000 registered …

WASHINGTON – New hiring slowed significantly in April as employers added just 138,000 people to their payrolls, the slowest pace of job growth in six months. The overall unemployment rate held steady at 4.7 percent. The latest snapshot of labor market activity, released by the Labor Department on Friday, also …

SUVA, Fiji – Fiji Saturday began a weeklong election that could fuel more turmoil in this troubled and racially divided South Pacific democracy. Voters were choosing between an ethnic Indian opposition leader whose previous rise to power sparked a coup and an indigenous Fijian incumbent who is struggling for power …

WASHINGTON – — Porter Goss – TENURE AS DIRECTOR Sept. 24 2004 – April 21, 2005 Prior Military Service- U.S. Army intelligence officer, 1960-62 — James Woolsey – TENURE AS DIRECTOR Feb. 5 1993 – Jan. 10, 1995 Prior Military Service – Captain, US Army, 1968-70 — William Webster – …