The UN warns of rising violence across Sudan as it suspends refugee repatriation in the south.

AP - Stocks finished a volatile session lower Tuesday, with a conflicting report on wholesale inflation and questions about the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy creating uncertainty for investors.

AP - Inflation at the wholesale level plunged by the largest amount in nearly three years in February as the price of food and energy products including gasoline fell sharply.

USATODAY.com - In the past decade, the federal government has intensified its efforts to find permanent homes, in the form of adoption, for more foster-care children. Despite an domestic stall, more relatives are adopting a rising number of foster-care children, from 15% in 1998 to 23% in 2003, Department of Health and Human Services records show.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter New York, New York (AHN) - With tens of thousands of U.S. military vehicles, ships and aircraft guzzling fuel daily around the world, the bill is rising as the Pentagon searches for ways to conserve. According to the Defense Energy Support...

AP - It's not only the ladies who want Grady Sizemore.

AP - Wall Street extended its rally into a fifth day Monday, rising modestly as investors speculated that the Federal Reserve's string of interest rate hikes might actually be coming to an end.

The Christian Science Monitor - Three years on, the American public is surprised and dismayed about the length of the war in Iraq, and increasingly uncertain about its outcome.

AFP - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party and his leading rivals have failed to agree on talks between the embattled premier and his opponents, amid rising concerns whether snap polls can go ahead.

AP - The parent of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp. blamed rising costs and falling steel prices for a fourth-quarter loss of $23.4 million, pushing shares down 5.38 percent.

Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao's planned visit to the United States next month is not determining the quickening appreciation of the yuan, Wu Xiaoling, a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, said on Saturday.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Paris, France (AHN) - After nationwide protests and clashes with police, French President Jacques Chirac is urging immediate government talks with students and unions to dissuade rising tensions and anger over a new labor law. The new legislation escalated...

USATODAY.com - More Americans fell behind on their mortgage payments at the end of last year as they struggled in the face of hurricane damage, rising interest rates, higher gas prices and holiday credit card bills, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday.

AP - China's currency is rising to new highs against the U.S. dollar as President Hu Jintao prepares for his first state visit to Washington, and while two of the harshest critics in the U.S. Senate are heading to Beijing.

AP - A trail to the rim of the Mount St. Helens crater, closed since a slow eruption began in 2004, may reopen this year even as molten rock continues to ooze from the mountain.

AP - A trail to the rim of the Mount St. Helens crater, closed since a slow eruption began in 2004, may reopen this year even as molten rock continues to ooze from the mountain.

AP - A Dutch multicultural group is organizing a soccer tournament between gays and Muslims, hoping to counter what a study published on Thursday said was a rising tide of fear among gays.

Reuters - The overweight are just as malnourished as the starving, and nutritional programs in poor countries need to target rising obesity alongside hunger, a United Nations panel said on Thursday.

AP - State-controlled utility Gaz de France SA, which has announced plans to acquire French utility Suez SA, said Thursday its profit jumped 29 percent in 2005, partly on rising natural gas prices and growing sales volume.

As crews look for seven people missing after the dam collapse in Kilauea, Hawaii, fears are rising that other dams throughout the state are also vulnerable.