Reuters - The top U.S. military officer pleaded on Monday for continued cooperation with Russia despite Moscow's widely condemned military action in Georgia.

Reuters - Barack Obama proposed reforms on Monday to rein in practices that led to the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Depression, while White House rival John McCain touted his own remedies and accused Obama of failing to provide leadership.

AP - Robert Wagner's marriage to Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with Barbara Stanwyck was a secret — until now. In his new memoir "Pieces of My Heart," Wagner writes of his four-year romance with the star of such classics as "Stella Dallas" and "Double Indemnity."

AP - A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years ago was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison.

AP - A former model and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after being identified as John McCain's lover 51 years ago. Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman the Republican presidential candidate fondly described — though never named — in his 1999 book "Faith of My Fathers."

AP - Barack Obama's running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was "terrible" and would not have been done had he known about it.

AP - Oil prices fell below $108 a barrel Tuesday in Asia in a choppy market driven by uncertainty about whether a $700 billion U.S. plan to buy bad mortgage debt will stabilize the financial system.

AP - The stock price of a company at the center of China's tainted milk product scandal plunged Tuesday as the government pledged to crack down on an "out of control" milk-gathering system.

AP - Security forces killed 10 suspected insurgents Tuesday as part of an ongoing offensive near the Afghan border aimed at denying al-Qaida and Taliban militants safe havens there.

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.