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LONDON – Oil prices rose above $74 a barrel Tuesday amid fear that international pressure on Iran to modify its nuclear program may lead to supply cuts from the key exporter. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW Small Business page. An Iran official earlier in the day reiterated the country’s …

BAGHDAD – Editor’s note: U.S. Army Capt. Dan Sukman is serving a one-year deployment to Iraq. For previous entries and his bio, see the Soldier’s Diary archives. May 3, 2006 The last couple of days have been moving fast. I am nearly finished with the inventories and only have a …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia is exploring plans to build the first Disney theme park in Southeast Asia, a government minister said Tuesday. Effendi Norwawi, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of economic affairs, said the government is in talks with Disneyland operators in Japan and the United …

BOSTON – A man serving a life sentence for murdering his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation, arguing that denying him the surgery amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. A psychiatrist testified Tuesday that he believes Robert Kosilek — who …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A bankruptcy judge Wednesday approved the $280-million-a-year concessions agreement between Delta Air Lines Inc. and its pilots, hours after rank-and-file pilots gave their nod to the deal. The agreement, which runs through 2009, will take effect Thursday. The deal, which replaces an interim pact agreed to …

BATON ROUGE, La. – A woman fatally shot by her husband after authorities said he killed four of her relatives at a church service had gotten a temporary restraining order against him last year. Erica Bell, 24, filed her request in December 2005, citing family violence, The Advocate reported. The …

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Heavy artillery and mortar fire pounded northern Mogadishu Friday as Islamic militia and secular fighters battled for control of a now-deserted neighborhood for a sixth day. The death toll since the fighting began rose to at least 135 as of early Friday as the bodies of those …

KRAKOW, Poland – Some 900,000 Poles sang, clapped and chanted “Benedetto, Benedetto” at Mass in a soggy field Sunday for Pope Benedict XVI, who urged them to share their faith with other countries in a mostly secular Europe. Benedict said that was the best way to honor his predecessor, John …

STAMFORD, Connecticut – Two men who ran exporting businesses in Connecticut and New York have been indicted on federal charges that they participated in a scheme with China to sell telecommunications equipment to Saddam Hussein‘s government in Iraq. Andrew Huang, 59 of Cromwell, Connecticut and Joseph Thomas, 81, of While …

WASHINGTON – Rep. William J. Jefferson on Monday criticized a search of his congressional office in relation to a federal bribery investigation but refused to discuss the facts of the legal case in front of him. Federal prosecutors allege the Louisiana Democrat accepted $100,000 in cash in exchange for assistance …