May 8, 1997
WASHINGTON, May 7: The United States has acknowledged that a government crop duster plane had flown over Cuba but denied it had used ``biol...
May 7, 1997
Steffi Graf Boris Becker HAMBURG, May 6: Facing an apparently not-so-rosy future, Germany's tennis hierarchy is turning to their bigges...
Gary Kasparov is unfazed by the 1.4 ton `creature's' bid to control and delete the world champ. NEW YORK, May 6: Hundreds of chess enthus...
ISLAMABAD, May 6: As Pakistan's religious leaders sat at the negotiation table to try to stop religiously motivated killings, two more Shii...
SYDNEY, May 6: Prime Minister John Howard today called for an end to protests against independent lawmaker Pauline Hanson and her anti-Asia...
May 6, 1997
DULUTH, May 5: Marcelo Filippini used the wind and a big advantage on first serves to beat Jason Stoltenberg 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 for the AT&...
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5: The fans came to see the two fastest men in the world and they didn't go away disappointed. Donovan Bailey and Micha...
RIYADH, May 5: An Indian convicted of smuggling heroin was beheaded today, and the government warned that any others caught trafficking wou...
Sisters Maria and Angela Eagle celebrate their election victories for the Labour Party in Liverpool after becoming the first twins to enter...
KISANGANI (ZAIRE), May 5: At least 100 Rwandan Hutu refugees died and 50 were injured on Sunday when panic broke out on a six-car train tha...
JERUSALEM, May 5: Israeli flags flew at half-staff, more than 2,000 teenagers marched to the ruins of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and Ge...
JERUSALEM, May 5: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will meet Israeli President Ezer Weizman on Tuesday in an effort to lay the groundwork f...
May 5, 1997
NEW YORK, May 4: World chess champion Garry Kasparov won the first game of his much-anticipated rematch with IBM's Deep Blue computer. The ...
PERTH, AUSTRALIA, May 4: Protestors hurled tomatoes, eggs and insults on Sunday in the second demonstration against a right-wing politician...
May 4, 1997
WASHINGTON, May 3: While declaring its full cooperation, the White House waged a battle to keep nine sets of notes involving Hillary Rodham...
May 3, 1997
FORT-DE-FRANCE, May 2: Anna Fidelia Quirot of Cuba won the women's 400-metre race in her debut at an outdoor meet since her comeback from a...
May 1, 1997
DULUTH (GEORGIA), April 30: Top-seeded and defending champion Michael Chang fell victim to the slashing lefty style of Brazilian Fernando M...
West Indies beat India in the third One Day International by 18 runs. Electing to bat first, they set a target of 249 runs in the stipulate...
THE WOODS ARE LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP: Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (left) with his New Zealand counterpart Jim Bolger in Wellin...
LIMA, April 30: The Spanish Inquisition. The very name evokes images of dungeons, torture racks, secret trials, heretics burned at the stak...
WASHINGTON, April 30: A global ban on chemical weapons took effect yesterday with several key nations absent from the list of more than 80 ...
