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Airbus Secures Big Orders at Air Show

Airlines gave a big lift to the order book for the next generation Airbus A350 today, announcing contracts for 114 of the planes on the first day of the Paris Air Show.



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Suits: An Ever-So-Tactful Auf Wiedersehen

Chrysler executives have had to tread a fine line in expressing their reactions to the automaker?s return to American ownership.

Animal behaviorist joins National Zoo

Erika Bauer likes to be where the wild things are. Last month, the 31-year-old animal behaviorist joined the Smithsonian's National Zoo as a curatorial resident.

Chбvez?s Move Against Critic Highlights Shift in Media

President Hugo Chбvez?s decision not to renew the license of RCTV, Venezuela?s oldest broadcaster and a vocal critic, effectively shut it down.

3rd 'Pirates' fails to grab record bounty

Box-office treasure is a little harder to come by on the new voyage of "Pirates of the Caribbean."

Just one word: Plastics (Raphael G. Satter / ASSOCIATED PRESS)

LONDON -- Strap on your PVC boots, hitch up your nylon stockings. It's time to celebrate the 100th birthday of the world's first entirely synthetic material, one that revolutionized manufacturing, transportation, fashion and more. Plastic.

Millions of war records online (Donna Borak / ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Ancestry.com on Thursday released more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

China asks U.S. to clarify food regulations

China appeared to go on the defensive yesterday in response to rising concern about the safety of its food and drug exports, asking the United States to clarify its regulations on the use of antibiotics that turned up in Chinese catfish in three Southern

China?s Leaders Confront Their Own Manic Market

China?s bigger challenges lie in how to rein in the soaring stock market and whom to pick as the next governor of the central bank.

Chinese Officials Extol Benefits of U.S. Relations

Chinese leaders appeared to make little headway in quelling Congressional anger over China?s economic practices.

Leasing for FBI seen as wasteful (Tom Ramstack / THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Some members of Congress are questioning whether the General Services Administration wasted taxpayers' money by leasing offices for the FBI instead of buying or building more of them as the agency expanded after the September 11 terrorist attacks.