Reuters - At least 10 people were killed and
more than 100 injured on Friday, with those figures expected to
rise, after a freight train and commuter train collided head-on
outside Los Angeles.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike crashed onto
the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early on
Saturday, threatening devastation along the Gulf of Mexico and
menacing the fourth-largest U.S. city.
AP - Tim Wakefield gave the Red Sox the big lift they needed after two demoralizing losses to Tampa Bay. Cleveland's Cliff Lee got plenty of offensive support in picking up win No. 22.
AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Friday she thinks Barack Obama regrets not making Hillary Rodham Clinton his running mate.
AP - A dairy that sold milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants and one death knew in August it was tainted with a banned chemical, weeks before it ordered a recall, the Health Ministry said Saturday.
AP - Ben Harrell waited for Gov. Sarah Palin to stop by at his Mocha Moose coffee house like she does most days she's back home. But things are different now when she's in town.
AP - The Federal Reserve Bank of New York held an emergency meeting Friday night with top Washington policymakers and major financial institutions to discuss the future of Lehman Brothers.
AP - More than 200,000 people turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass on Saturday an outpouring of faith for a traditionally Roman Catholic country that has witnessed a sharp decline in churchgoing among Catholics.
AP - Los Angeles fire officials say at least 12 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.
AP - A massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.
AFP - President Robert Mugabe and the opposition will wield equal power in a unity government aimed at ending Zimbabwe's protracted political crisis and economic meltdown, sources said Friday.
AFP - A strengthening Hurricane Ike Friday bore down on Houston Friday, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee and sparking a dire warning that those remaining in low-lying areas "face certain death."
Reuters - Afghan police have arrested three men on
suspicion of giving false information which led to the death of
civilians in a U.S. air strike in western Afghanistan last
month, the interior ministry said on Friday.