before Congress, that U.S. patience is 'not unlimited.' A Cabinet-level committee has devised a plan for managing Iraq's oil industry that could assure an equitable distribution of oil revenues among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, a critical factor. And

partitioning the country into a Kurdish north, a Shiite south, leaving them in a central Iraq bereft of oil and other natural resources. Speaking about bombings that killed hundreds of Shiites in the past months in Iraq, al-Hakim blamed Sunni extremists

:Malaysia will reconstruct the famous ruins of the fortress A' Famosa in the historical city of Malacca to display it to the world, local press reported Monday.: The Heritage Department under the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry will implement the

more choppy markets are going to be,' said Peter Dixon, a UK economist at Commerzbank. 'We've got rising oil prices, we've got interest rate expectations both in the UK and the U.S. ... So that whole mixture of positive and negative factors is conspiring

global warming, I'm prepared to do that now,' ' he said. The dramatic rise in production from Alberta's oil sands has played a key role in Canada's economic strength in recent years, but the survey suggests a willingness to give up some of that growth.

snapped up the battered shares of energy companies whose profits aren't at the mercy of rising and falling oil prices. Oilfield equipment and services companies, in particular, have seen their shares come under selling pressure as they track the deep

the area where the boat's transponder was last heard, about 11 miles north of Nantucket.Searc hers had spotted an oil sheen on the surface of the water and some small wood chips and debris nearby on Saturday. Officials used underwater cameras and sonar