The World
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-backed resolution calling on Iraq to reveal all its chemical, biological or nuclear weapons programs within 30 days or face "serious consequences."
A senior al-Qaida commander and five of his presumed subordinates -- including a U.S. citizen -- were killed in Yemen when a missile fired from an airborne U.S. drone struck their vehicle.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai fired 15 military and civilian provincial officials two weeks into a campaign against official corruption and abuse.
Factory workers in South Korea went on strike to protest the reduction of their workweek from 5 1/2 days to 5, because less time at work could mean a reduction in their vacation time.
Europe's highest court, voided pacts between the United States and European countries that restrict access to U.S. airports to national carriers originating from their home countries.
North Korea warned it will resume testing ballistic missiles if Japan does not move quickly to normalize relations between the two countries.
Swaziland's King Mswati III defended the custom that allows him to take as many brides as he likes and said a woman who asked the courts to prevent him from marrying her daughter had been badly advised.
French police in Lyon were holding eight people in connection with a deadly synagogue bombing in Tunisia last spring that authorities have linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dissolved parliament and set new elections for January. He accepted his chief Likud party rival, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as his foreign minister for now.
Construction workers walked out in the first labor strike in Switzerland since 1947.
The Nation
The Republican Party recaptured control of the Senate in Tuesday's elections.
California Rep. Nancy Pelosi emerged as favorite to succeed Rep. Richard A. Gephardt as Democratic minority leader of the House of Representatives.
Harvey L. Pitt, the embattled chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned on Election Day.
Four members of the Symbionese Liberation Army pleaded guilty to murder for the shotgun slaying of a woman during a California bank holdup in 1975.
Enron's former chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow, pleaded not guilty to a 78-count indictment charging that he masterminded financial schemes that made him rich and doomed the company.
Yale and Stanford universities will drop binding "early decision" admissions next year.
Muslims from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria who are living temporarily in the United States must be fingerprinted and photographed, the Justice Department announced.
Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin was kept on life support in a Los Angeles hospital after trying to kill himself in prison where he was being held on charges that he plotted to bomb a mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman.
The Supreme Court granted a last-minute death penalty reprieve to a 42-year-old Texan, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, who was convicted of murder.
The Federal Reserve Board cut the federal funds interest rate by a half a percentage point, putting it at 1.25 percent, the lowest in 41 years.
Vegetables from the allium food group, including garlic, onions and shallots, may reduce by half the risk of prostate cancer, according to researchers at the National Cancer Institute.
Ford Motor Co. recalled some of its 2000-2001 Focus models, the 11th safety recall involving the small car.
Almost 200 vehicles collided on a foggy stretch of California's Long Beach Freeway, injuring dozens of people.
A major earthquake rocked a sparsely populated part of interior Alaska, triggering an automatic shutdown of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline.
The Region
Maryland added two Democrats to its congressional delegation as C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger defeated Helen Delich Bentley in the 2nd District and Christopher Van Hollen Jr. unseated Constance A. Morella in the 8th.
House Speaker Casper R. Taylor trailed Republican LeRoy E. Myers Jr. by 71 votes out of more than 11,000 cast after absentee ballots were counted.
Eastern Shore Democratic Sen. Walter M. Baker, longtime chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, was defeated by Republican E.J. Pipkin, a former Wall Street bond trader.
Sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, were taken from prison in Baltimore to Virginia after U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft decided that state -- which allows execution of minors -- should try them first.
Cal Ripken removed himself from the list of candidates for general manager of the Orioles.
Garrison Forest School was the beneficiary of the $4.6 million estate bequeathed by Miriam B. Vanderveer, who had taught at the private girls school in Owings Mills.
Rebecca Orenstein, a former Westminster city councilwoman, was charged with assaulting a police officer after she threw confetti that landed in a patrol car during McDaniel College's annual homecoming parade.
The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the state insurance commissioner's power to order insurers to pay for treatment deemed medically necessary.
Bernard Webster, 40, was released from the Maryland State Prison in Hagerstown after DNA evidence proved he did not commit the rape for which he was sent to prison 20 years ago.
Morgan Wootten, 71, retired as basketball coach of DeMatha, a boys Catholic high school in Hyattsville, where he began coaching in 1956, never had a losing season, won five national championships, 33 league championships, and built a career record of 1,274-192.
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"We meant what we said in this campaign. 'Time for a change' means something."
Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., after winning Maryland's gubernatorial election