AP - Barack Obama has found something that eluded him during the primary season — contrast. And, he's basking in it. "He will not bring change," Obama always asserts, rightly or wrongly, of rival Republican John McCain. "I will."

AP - North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks.

AP - Firefighters "turned the corner" Saturday on a wildfire that destroyed part of a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, one of the hundreds of blazes that continue to char huge swaths of California.

AFP - President Lee Myung-Bak Saturday condemned the killing of a South Korean tourist by a soldier in North Korea, and called on Pyongyang to fully cooperate in investigating the tragedy.

AFP - China and Russia vetoed targeted UN sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election, prompting an angry reaction from the United States which cast doubt on Moscow's reliability as a G8 partner.

Reuters - Apple Inc's new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in Europe, although network problems marred the launch in the United States.

Reuters - Oil prices jumped $5 to a record high above $147 a barrel on Friday amid growing worries about threats to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and a strike by Brazilian oil workers next week.

Reuters - North Korea pledged on Saturday to complete steps to disable its nuclear facilities by the end of October, at six-country talks aimed at disarming the communist state in return for aid and better diplomatic relations.

Reuters - One person was found dead in a burned-out house in northern California on Friday after one of the wildfires ravaging the state swept through a woodland community, local police said.

Reuters - China said on Saturday that sanctions against Zimbabwe's government would "complicate," rather than ease, conflict in the troubled African country, defending its decision to veto a proposed U.N. resolution.

Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush would veto Senate housing legislation if it includes $4 billion in block grants to states to buy foreclosed homes, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Friday.

Reuters - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said on Friday that their finances were sufficiently sound to withstand the housing crisis as government officials scrambled to restore confidence in the country's two largest mortgage finance companies.

Reuters - U.S. banking regulators swooped in to seize mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc on Friday after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the third-largest banking failure in U.S. history.

AP - The Green Bay Packers want to do the right thing in response to Brett Favre's latest round of flip-flopping on his future in football.

AP - Comedian Bernie Mac endured some heckling and a campaign rebuke during a surprise appearance Friday night at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.