AP - U.S. military incursions into Pakistan that have stoked anti-Americanism top the agenda for President Bush's talks with the newly elected president of the Muslim nation, which is reeling from a deadly truck bomb that devastated a Marriott hotel in Islamabad.

AP - Strapped homeowners could get government help renegotiating their mortgages as part of the $700 billion financial bailout legislation taking shape in Congress.

AP - After a brief spell of elation, angst has returned to Wall Street.

AFP - Masked bandits kidnapped a group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians at gunpoint as they were on a desert safari in a remote corner of southwestern Egypt and took them to Sudan, officials said Monday.

Reuters - The number of Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula doubled to nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator resigned on Monday in the latest blight on the "made-in-China" brand.

Reuters - The White House on Monday expressed concern about Iran's lack of cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and said Tehran must provide "substantial information and access" to the agency.

Reuters - Group of Seven nations welcomed the $700 billion U.S. markets bailout plan on Monday and said they were prepared to step up international cooperation to protect the world's financial and banking system.

Reuters - Senate Democrats issued a counterproposal to the Treasury Department's $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan on Monday that would give the government a stake in firms unloading troubled assets under the plan, and limit the pay of corporate executives involved.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Monday said negotiators were making "good headway" on legislation to provide an unprecedented $700 billion bailout of financial markets and that he was confident a measure to prevent lasting damage to the economy could be enacted.

Reuters - Barack Obama proposed reforms on Monday to rein in practices that led to the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Depression, even as rival John McCain elaborated on his own plans and accused Obama of failing to provide leadership.

Reuters - Stocks fell on Monday as a spike in oil prices renewed fear about consumer spending and investors worried whether a $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector would be enough to resuscitate the economy.

Reuters - Wall Street's last two big investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, secured Federal Reserve approval to become banks, ending the swashbuckling era of American deal making amid the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.

AP - The NFL takes center stage tonight in San Diego as the Chargers entertain the New York's Jets. New York is 1-1 this season while the Chargers are a surprising 0-2.

AP - Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?