AP - When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused.
AP - Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorobilia, lawyers in his robbery-kidnapping trial are finally set to begin picking a jury.
AP - Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.
AP - The Bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.
AP - As a ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped across Cuba, residents from Key West to the Gulf Coast watched the storm's unpredictable path, worrying it could hit anywhere in the U.S. from Texas to Florida.
AP - Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
AP - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees Monday as the deadly storm roared across Cuba toward Havana and its historic but decaying old buildings.
AFP - Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country's troubled northwest reached 33.
AFP - The latest hurricane to tear through the Atlantic and Caribbean battered Turks and Caicos and the southern Bahamas Sunday and was hampering relief efforts in flood-devastated Haiti, as Cuba and the United States gird for the storm's wrath.
Reuters - Egyptian workers cut through a railway
embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to
the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a
Cairo shantytown.
Reuters - Iran will hold its 2009 presidential
election on June 12, when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is
widely expected to stand for a second four-year term despite
criticism over his economic policies.
Reuters - U.S. General David Petraeus, credited
with helping staunch violence in Iraq, will hand over command
of U.S. forces there to Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno on
September 16, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
Reuters - Republican nominee John
McCain said in an interview aired on Sunday he would bring
Democrats into his Cabinet and administration as part of his
attempt to change the political atmosphere in Washington.
Reuters - Ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped off roofs
in the southern Bahamas on Sunday and Cuba scrambled to move
hundreds of thousands of people inland, away from a storm
eventually headed toward the U.S. Gulf oil patch and possibly
New Orleans.
