In an attempt to promote understanding of day-to-day life in Israel, three Israeli youths are speaking on campus today about their experiences living in the country and serving in the Israeli army. Read more...

Iraq ambassador named: President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States’ top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq “˜”˜will be free and democratic and peaceful.” Bush announced the nomination in an Oval Office ceremony. Read more...

Israeli minister cancels campus talk Natan Sharansky, a member of the Israeli Parliament and minister of social and Diaspora affairs, cancelled a scheduled talk at UCLA and returned to Israel because of political considerations. Read more...

Palestinian ideology source of violence Where are you right now? Are you reading this article in the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse? Are you sitting at a table on Bruin Walk or are waiting for your class to start in a lecture hall? Read more...

Over 700 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since the start of the U.S.-led invasion. Of those killed, roughly 40 percent of the dead were between the ages of 18 and 24. Read more...

As the deadline nears for Taco Bell to meet conditions set by the Associated Students of UCLA so the restaurant can keep its place on campus, many people involved in the process are being left in the dark. Read more...

Normally a festival would not take place in a small, cramped room in Boelter Hall, but that did not stop the UCLA Linux Users Group from holding Install-fest, an event to help people install Linux on Saturday. Read more...