By Saijel Kishan and Simon Casey The two truckloads of metal that rolled out of Glencore International's Mopani Copper Mines in Zambia in February never made it to their destination at the Indian Ocean port of Durban, South Africa.

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

By LEONARD DOYLE WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Why are

Richard Nixon. Mark Felt. Caspar Weinberger. Marc Rich. Is President Bush willing to risk - on behalf of ex-White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - the kind of political grief that pardons for those four men brought the presidents who granted them?

By Andrew E. Kramer The Aluminum Company of America, or Alcoa, may face a rival for global dominance if a tentative merger of two Russian aluminum companies and a major Swiss commodity trader comes to fruition, perhaps as early as this autumn. Any such move by Alcoa from its No.