AFP - Asif Ali Zardari is expected to be sworn in as Pakistan's president Monday, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago, an official said.
Reuters - Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali
Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician
and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening
militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday.
Reuters - Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader
Saad al-Hariri held talks with an Alawite community leader in a
volatile northern city overnight, paving the way for agreement
to end four months of sectarian tensions, politicians said on
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Reuters - Boeing Co's
27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday
after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer
following two days of emergency talks.
Reuters - U.S.-led soldiers, backed
by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban
fighters in two separate clashes, officials said on Sunday.
Reuters - Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama warned the elderly on Saturday that
Republican rival John McCain would put their retirement income
in danger.
Reuters - The U.S. government plans to take
over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all
shareholders of the two mortgage giants will take a hit, an
influential lawmaker said on Saturday.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
AP - Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something Saturday he hadn't in quite a while. He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer.
AP - Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was good early and even better late, enough to help No. 5 Florida snap a six-game losing streak against rival Miami. Tebow threw two touchdown passes, speedster Percy Harvin ran for a score and the Gators used a swarming defensive effort to beat the Hurricanes 26-3 Saturday night at The Swamp.
AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
AP - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
