AFP - Indian police hunted Sunday for Muslim militants behind coordinated bomb attacks against busy shopping areas in the nation's capital that left 20 dead and close to 100 injured.

AFP - An Aeroflot Boeing-737 jet crashed Sunday on the outskirts of Perm in Russia's Ural mountains killing all 88 passengers and crew on board.

Reuters - Police officers trawled slums and criminal hideouts in India's capital on Sunday rounding up suspects after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 21 people and wounded nearly 100.

Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il fell seriously ill in April, sometimes losing consciousness at work and unable to rule on important policy matters, the Mainichi daily reported on Sunday, citing a "reliable" Chinese source.

Reuters - When General David Petraeus took over as U.S. military commander in Iraq in February 2007, the country was on the brink of all-out civil war.

Reuters - Engine failure caused an Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 plane crash in Russia on Sunday which killed all 88 people on board, officials said, dismissing fears terrorists had attacked the airliner.

Reuters - Recovery teams picked their way through debris and inundated streets in coastal Texas on Sunday after Hurricane Ike flooded hundreds of miles of U.S. coastline, cut power to millions and pummeled the oil hub of Houston.

Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised a record $66 million in August, a campaign spokesman said on Sunday.

Reuters - Regulators and bankers resumed a third day of talks on Sunday in a desperate attempt to reach a deal to sell Lehman Brothers and prevent the struggling investment bank from flooding jittery financial markets with toxic assets at fire sale prices.

AP - New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton has been given a contract extension through the 2012 NFL season.

AP - Live from New York ... it's Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin.

AP - From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, people far from Hurricane Ike's destruction nonetheless felt one of its tell-tale aftershocks: gasoline prices that surged overnight — to nearly $5 a gallon in some places.

AP - U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

AP - When Jessica Stollings learned on Facebook that John McCain had named Sarah Palin as his running mate, the 26-year-old from Bristol, Tenn., took the day off and picked up some campaign yard signs. Just like that, she went from "just a voter" to a McCain evangelist.

AP - Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.