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<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- An explosion at the Marriott hotel in central Jakarta has left at least 6 people injured.</p> <p>The blast occurred just before 1 p.m. (0600 GMT) on Tuesday, shattering scores of plate-glass windows at the front of the hotel.</p>

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An explosion outside a Marriot Hotel in downtown Jakarta killed four people on Tuesday, radio reports said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a bomb. However, since last year's terrorist bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, authorities have warned that more attacks were likely. "I saw four badly burned bodies on the street," a reporter from Jakarta's El Shinta radio station said, adding that two cars nearby were on fire. Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang, a police spokesman, said he had heard the report and that officers were on their...

Breast cancer and abortion: the facts February 17 2003 When I first heard of the link between abortion and breast cancer, in 1993, I thought it was a pro-life fantasy. "That's crazy," was my initial response. However, out of curiosity I changed the history form I used in my work as a breast surgeon, asking each woman the order and outcome of all pregnancies. The results surprised me.In the first six months I had two patients in their 30s with breast cancer; one had had seven pregnancies and six abortions, the other five pregnancies and three abortions. I continued to...

An Ohio man filed a $1.5 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Knoxville Marriott hotel after finding a hidden camera in a bathroom light fixture in July. Bryan Brewer discovered the small video camera after noticing a tiny black spot - which he thought was an insect but turned out to be a hole - in the fixture, according to the lawsuit. At the time Brewer, the vice president of a California company, was staying at the Marriott while on business. His attorney, K.O. Herston, filed the lawsuit in Knox County Circuit Court. Named as defendants are Marriott International Inc. and...

An Ohio man filed a $1.5 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Knoxville Marriott hotel after finding a hidden camera in a bathroom light fixture in July. Bryan Brewer discovered the small video camera after noticing a tiny black spot - which he thought was an insect but turned out to be a hole - in the fixture, according to the lawsuit. At the time Brewer, the vice president of a California company, was staying at the Marriott while on business. His attorney, K.O. Herston, filed the lawsuit in Knox County Circuit Court. Named as defendants are Marriott International Inc. and...

Filed at 12:20 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marriott International Inc. has agreed to pay $115,000 and apologize for canceling an offer to host the annual meeting of an Arab-American group on Sept. 11, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Marriott will pay the money and apologize to the Midwest Federation of American Syrian-Lebanese Clubs for rescinding on the afternoon of the hijacked plane attacks an offer to hold the convention at its hotel in Des Moines, department officials said. They alleged Marriott revoked its offer in violation of federal civil rights law, because the group's members are Arab American....