Deal calls for troop pullback in Iraq

BAGHDAD - Iraqi and US negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials said yesterday.

Grim competition with counterfeiters

SHANGHAI - Jason Yao lives a dangerous life for a guy in the golf business.

Tufts Medical seeks listing as trauma center

Tufts Medical Center is seeking to become a major trauma center, a plan that could affect where ambulances take some of the region's most seriously injured patients.

Independent Lieberman upends political world

WASHINGTON - Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, sits in a position of extraordinary power in the presidential campaign, simultaneously courted and detested by members of both political parties.

Out in the open: Some scientists sharing results

CAMBRIDGE - Barry Canton, a 28-year-old biological engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has posted raw scientific data, his thesis proposal, and original research ideas on an online website for all to see.