Bombs found in Mumbai train station a week later (AP)
[12 mins][Bombay]
AP - Police searching a mound of baggage abandoned amid the carnage of the attack on Mumbai's main train station found two bombs Wednesday — nearly a week after they were left there by gunmen — in a stunning new example of the botched security that has become a major issue in India since the three-day siege.

Conservatives form rival group to Episcopal Church (AP)
[13 mins][Rockport, TX]
AP - Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.

Victorious Chambliss looks for bigger role in GOP (AP)
[14 mins][DAWSON, GA]
AP - A double digit win in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff could make Saxby Chambliss a star in a Republican party hungry for fresh leadership. Just weeks ago, he was battling for political survival after neither he nor his Democratic opponent got more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election, forcing Tuesday's runoff, which Chambliss won handily.

Study illuminates star explosion from 16th century (AP)
[14 mins][Denmark]
AP - More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw.

Red Sox give AL MVP Pedroia a 6-year, $40.5M deal (AP)
[15 mins][Boston, MA]
AP - Dustin Pedroia has a Rookie of the Year award, an MVP, a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger and, of course, a World Series ring. And now he's got the big-bucks contract befitting one of the most decorated young players in baseball. The Red Sox second baseman, who earned $457, 000 last season while winning the AL Most Valuable Player award, agreed Wednesday to a $40.5 million, six-year contract that could keep in Boston through at least 2014.

Police: Shackled Calif. boy jumped fence to escape (AP)
[17 mins]
AP - After being held captive for nearly a year, an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old boy climbed out a window in the home of his captors and walked into a nearby gym in search of help, police said.

22-year sentence — again — for millennium plotter (AP)
[17 mins][El Segundo, CA]
AP - Rejecting prosecutors' calls for a life term, a federal judge on Wednesday reimposed a 22-year prison sentence for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.

It's all glitter as queen opens Parliament
[18 mins]
Hard times have hit Britain, but you wouldn't know it by watching Queen Elizabeth II open Parliament.

Speaker blames police for Tory MP's arrest fiasco and reveals they did NOT have search warrant
[19 mins]
Commons Speaker Michael Martin and two of Britain's top police officers have been left fighting for their jobs as it emerged anti-terror police 'unlawfully' raided Parliament without a warrant.

Brown provides mortgage safety net for middle classes with two-year loan interest 'holiday' if families fall on hard times
[21 mins]
Gordon Brown has thrown the housing market a lifeline by offering homeowners facing repossession a mortgage interest holiday.