AP - One week after Hurricane Ike wiped out whole neighborhoods and nearly every basic service in Galveston, there is a plan to start letting some 45,000 evacuees back to their hobbled hometown.

AP - A bankruptcy judge approved a plan just after midnight Saturday under which Lehman Brothers will sell its investment banking and trading businesses to Barclays.

AP - Faltering financial institutions whose toxic assets have brought markets to the brink of catastrophe could unload their bad debt on the government, and in turn the taxpayer, under a half-trillion dollar bailout being crafted by the Bush administration and Congress.

AFP - North Korea, accusing Washington of breaking a nuclear disarmament deal, said Friday it is working to restart its atomic reactor and no longer wants US concessions promised under the pact.

AFP - US authorities bolstered their arsenal Friday to battle the financial market storm, readying a massive rescue plan worth hundreds of billions of dollars while unveiling other emergency actions.

Reuters - Venezuela brusquely expelled two activists from U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on Friday who criticized President Hugo Chavez for political intolerance and for eroding democracy during nearly 10 years in power.

Reuters - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has promised that authorities will bring to justice those behind two suicide car bombings at the U.S. embassy this week, state media said on Friday.

Reuters - The 10 tropical storms and hurricanes that ripped through the Atlantic and Caribbean during this busy hurricane season savaged Haiti, Cuba and the U.S. Gulf coast, and conditions are now ripe for more.

Reuters - The U.S. government curbed short-selling and guaranteed money-market mutual funds on Friday as it worked on a sweeping bailout to mop up hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic mortgage debt, sending global stock markets soaring.

Reuters - North Korea said on Friday it was working on restarting its nuclear plant and dismissed the prospect of being removed from a U.S. terrorism blacklist in return for a disarmament deal.

Reuters - Republican presidential nominee John McCain, seeking to boost his standing in the U.S. presidential race, proposed stricter regulation of Wall Street on Friday and promised to end "reckless behavior" that led to a U.S. financial meltdown.

Reuters - Stocks rallied on Friday, led by a surge in financials, after the government unveiled plans to mop up bad assets and place a temporary ban on bets that financial stocks will fall.

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, leading a push for a taxpayer-funded plan to contain the credit market crisis, said on Friday he would ask Congress to take action on this next week and that the Treasury was taking immediate steps in the meantime.

AP - The Americans find themselves in an unusual position: leading the Ryder Cup. Justin Leonard and Hunter Mahan claimed the first point for the U.S., Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim rallied to halve their match, and a European three-putt at No. 18 handed another win to Stewart Cink and Chad Campbell on a red, white and blue Friday at Valhalla Golf Club.