Great entertainers like Bob Hope come around once a century.When Hope died July 27 from pneumonia — two months after his 100th birthday — President Bush ordered flags lowered to half-staff."America has lost a great citizen," Bush said.Hope's seven-decade

Willie Nelson has premiered his new anti-war ballad at an Austin fund-raising concert for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Members of Iraq's Governing Council are close to completing a transitional constitution that would make Islam a basis, but not the only one, for Iraqi laws, an Iraqi legal expert says.

Danish and Icelandic troops have uncovered a cache of 36 shells buried in the Iraqi desert, and preliminary tests showed they contained a liquid blister agent, the Danish military said Saturday.