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A Maryland man who was estranged from his wife drowned their three young children in a Baltimore hotel bathtub over the weekend, police said on Monday.
Mark Castillo, 41, called the front desk at the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel at about 1 p.m. on Sunday to say he had killed his children and was about to hurt himself, said officer Troy Harris, a spokesman for Baltimore...

The Washington Nationals took their late-inning act on the road. Nick Johnson's tiebreaking RBI double off Tom Gordon highlighted a five-run ninth inning and the Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-6 Monday.
On Sunday night, Ryan Zimmerman's solo homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth gave Washington a 3-2...

Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
Cuba has made a series of crowd-pleasing announcements in the past few days. Cubans with...

IBM (IBM.N) is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has been temporarily suspended from seeking new business contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.
International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest provider of computer services, said it received a notice of temporary suspension from the...

IBM Corp. and certain employees received subpoenas from a federal grand jury seeking testimony and documents relating to a contract it sought with the Environmental Protection Agency, the company said on Monday.
The company also has been temporarily banned from receiving future contracts with all federal agencies.
The suspension went into effect last Thursday "while the agency reviews concerns raised about potential activities...

A group of six banks, sued over the buyout of Clear Channel Communications Inc (CCU.N), asked a New York state court on Monday to hear their request to dismiss the claims against them.
Private equity firms Thomas H Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners filed complaints last week against Citigroup Inc...

A US senator influential on foreign policy said Monday he was disappointed with China for "unfairly" accusing Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of masterminding protests in the Himalayan territory.
Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also challenged China to allow journalists and diplomats full access to...

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused rival Sen. Barack Obama and his allies of trying to stop people from voting as some of his backers have called on her to drop out of the presidential race. The Obama campaign rejected the charge, dismissing Clinton's criticism as "completely laughable."
In a series of...

Increased oil revenue will allow Iraq to add $5 billion to its 2008 budget, money earmarked for investment in infrastructure and services, a government spokesman said Monday.
Like all oil-producing nations, Iraq has seen windfalls as oil prices have climbed above $100 a barrel. The country's oil exports have increased lately since declining after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Iraq's average production for...

CHICAGO - Chicago Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano left Monday's opener against the Milwaukee Brewers in the seventh inning with a cramp in his right forearm, right after making a pickoff throw to second base.
Milwaukee's Bill Hall hit a one-out double in the seventh, moments after Zambrano made a catch of Ryan...

NEW YORK - Gas prices at the pump surged to a new record Monday even as crude oil accelerated its slide amid a broad-based commodities sell-off.
The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded rose to $3.287, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Prices were highest in Hawaii and California, where the average price topped $3.60 a gallon.
Gasoline...

NEW YORK - Dell says it will save as much as $3 billion over the next three years as it cuts costs and lays off more workers.
The world's No. 2 computer maker said Monday it will close its desktop manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.
Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc. is also reaffirming its plan -- announced last year -- to cut at...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Defense Department analyst pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he gave classified information about U.S. and Taiwanese military communications systems to a businessman working with the Chinese government.
Gregg Bergersen, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret security clearances, was arrested last month. Prosecutors alleged he divulged military secrets to a New...

BAGHDAD - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his militia after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives.
The peace deal between al-Sadr and Iraqi government forces...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine police reopened two key trucking corridors linking Argentina with neighboring countries Monday as a 19-day national walkout deepened supermarket shortages of beef and other goods.
Strikers in the soybean- and cattle-rich province of Entre Rios, northeast of the capital, were forced to move their highway blockade at...