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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A tsunami warning which was automatically sent to television and radio stations throughout Alaska Monday morning was issued in error, the National Weather Service said. “It went out by mistake — there is no danger of tsunami anywhere,” said B.J. Bennekamper, a meteorologist in the service’ Anchorage …

NEW YORK – Communications equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) Tuesday posted a 1.8 percent fall in quarterly net profit from stock options expensing, but revenue rose as business customers spent more money on network and security upgrades. Shares rose nearly 2 percent in after-hours trading after the company beat …

Antioxidants may not help most men avoid prostate cancer, scientists report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Overall, the findings “do not provide strong support for population-wide implementation of high-dose antioxidant supplementation for the prevention of prostate cancer,” write the researchers. They included Richard Hayes, PhD, of the …

WASHINGTON – A House Republican influential on foreign affairs matters questioned the wisdom and potential effectiveness Thursday of American efforts to spread democracy, a cornerstone of Bush administration policy. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice poised to testify to his panel, Chairman Henry Hyde of the House International Relations Committee …

NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile phone service, said on Wednesday it had won a permanent injunction to prevent a Florida company from sending unsolicited text messages to its customers phones. Verizon Wireless said it filed a lawsuit against Passport Holidays of Ormond Beach, Florida in …

LIMA, Peru – A women’s rights group is putting up wanted posters around the capital for one of President Alejandro Toledo nephews, who fled his rape trial in November. The posters, bearing the name and photo of 36-year-old Miguel Toledo state: “Wanted” and “Accused of rape.” Gina Yanez, president of …

WASHINGTON – Health care officials applauded new federal regulations announced Tuesday that provide national standards for Medicare coverage of obesity surgery. Previously, the rules concerning reimbursement for such operations, known as bariatric surgery, varied across the United States. But under the new regulations, a handful of gastric bypass and banding …

WASHINGTON – President Bush believes the Dubai Ports World deal was thoroughly scrutinized and should go forward, but welcomes the additional 45-day review so that Congress can get comfortable with the sale, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday. “The additional time and investigation at the request of the company, …

NEW YORK – A phone repair worker who is in transition from male to female said Tuesday that she was arrested three times by transit police in the last six months for using the women’s restroom at Grand Central Terminal. Helena Stone, 70, said an officer called her “a freak, …

VIENNA, Austria – Iran has started small-scale enrichment of uranium — a process that can produce fuel for nuclear reactors or bombs, diplomats said Monday. “Uranium gas has been fed into three machines,” one senior diplomat familiar with Iran’s nuclear file said on condition of anonymity because he was not …