AP - Financial markets were tense Wednesday, with stocks fluctuating following investor Warren Buffett's decision to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The credit markets showed added strain as investors await news about the government's plan to rescue banks from crippling debt.

AP - China's agriculture minister acknowledged Tuesday that the country's milk-gathering system was "out of control" and led to abuses that put contaminated dairy products in stores across Asia, sickening some 54,000 babies and killing four.

AP - Financial markets extended their declines Tuesday as investors worried that lawmakers were beginning to doubt the necessity of a broad government bailout for financial institutions as a way to revive ailing credit markets.

Reuters - Stocks fell on Tuesday on fear that congressional wrangling could delay a proposed $700 billion plan to rescue the financial sector, increasing worries about the struggling U.S. economy.

Reuters - Architects of a $700 billion bailout plan urged U.S. lawmakers to act swiftly or face dire economic consequences amid growing concern the rescue may be delayed, but markets were heartened by news that Warren Buffett was investing $5 billion in Goldman Sachs.

AFP - Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday, as a vote of confidence in Wall Street from Warren Buffett helped offset concern about the 700-billion-dollar US financial rescue plan.

AP - China's agriculture minister acknowledged Tuesday that the country's milk-gathering system was "out of control" and led to abuses that put contaminated dairy products in stores across Asia, sickening some 54,000 babies and killing four.

AP - Securities and Exchange Commission chief Christopher Cox urged Congress Tuesday to regulate a type of corporate debt insurance that figured prominently in the country's financial crisis.

Reuters - Stocks rose on Tuesday, led by technology bellwethers such as Microsoft Corp , on hopes a proposed $700 billion financial sector bailout will loosen up lending and boost business and consumer spending.