AP - Iran's president said Thursday he was ready to negotiate with the United States and its allies over his country's nuclear program but he also suggested that any threats against Tehran would make the dialogue more difficult.

Reuters - British security services had come across two men who went on to carry out last year's July 7 suicide bomb attacks on London but did not believe they posed an urgent threat, a parliamentary report said on Thursday.

AP - Stocks plunged Thursday as surging oil and commodities prices added to investors' uncertainty about inflation and higher interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped about 120 points.

AP - Police and intelligence agencies missed chances to identify the suspected leader of the July 7 London transit bombings and one of his fellow suicide attackers who killed 52 people last year, a parliamentary report said Thursday.

AP - A priest was convicted Thursday of stabbing a Roman Catholic nun to death as she prepared for Easter services at a hospital 26 years ago, a murder prosecutors say was steeped in religious ritual.

AP - Snoop Dogg has accepted responsibility for using "threatening words or behavior" in a brawl last month at Heathrow airport.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Thursday said intelligence activities he has authorized are lawful and the government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval.

Reuters - Republican and Democratic Senate leaders agreed on Thursday on a plan to revive a bill that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship.