Bush: US will work with partners on credit crisis (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:09:45 GMT
AP - President Bush met with foreign financial officials Saturday and pledged a global response to the credit crisis that will lead toward a "path of stability and long-term growth."

NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:38:07 GMT
AP - North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded Saturday by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. The breakthrough is intended to salvage a faltering disarmament accord before President Bush leaves office in January.

Source: Chrysler, GM discuss merger, acquisition (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:09:05 GMT
AP - General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Cerberus Capital Management LP have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Report stings Palin over Troopergate flap (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:08:06 GMT
AP - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.

Obama notes McCain's effort to temper GOP comments (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:32:17 GMT
AP - Barack Obama acknowledged Saturday that John McCain has asked his supporters to temper their attacks on him. But the Democratic presidential nominee said the Republican's economic plans remain wrong for the country.

US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:14:26 GMT
AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58 (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:15:32 GMT
AP - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.

Larry Hagman excited about 30th `Dallas' reunion (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:53:07 GMT
AP - Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it.

Japanese businessman in murder plot found dead (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:41:14 GMT
AP - A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles has been found dead in an apparent suicide, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges.

Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener (AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:15:52 GMT
AP - Daisuke Matsuzaka's brilliant escape act bewildered Tampa Bay and put the Boston Red Sox on top in the AL championship series.