AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he has asked the king of Saudi Arabia to help facilitate peace talks with the Taliban in order to bring an end to the Afghan conflict.
AP - At least 125 people were killed and 50 injured when thousands of pilgrims stampeded Tuesday at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India, officials said.
AP - The historic carnage on Wall Street reverberated across Asia Tuesday, with stock markets in the region falling sharply after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bank rescue plan aimed at stabilizing the U.S. financial system.
AP - Top congressional and White House officials, stunned when the House rejected a massive rescue plan for the nation's economy, scrambled to structure a new bailout proposal that would attract reluctant lawmakers and still soothe the unnerved financial markets.
AFP - A group of European tourists and their guides snatched by armed bandits in a remote desert 10 days ago were freed unharmed in a pre-dawn raid by Egyptian special forces on Monday, officials in Egypt said.
AFP - The US House of Representatives on Monday dramatically rejected a 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout plan, throwing desperate efforts to calm the US financial crisis into disarray.
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry in a shock vote that sent global markets sliding as the world credit crisis claimed more banks.
Reuters - The Bush administration believes it has enough votes in Congress to pass the $700 billion package aimed at rescuing the U.S. financial system despite some opposition by lawmakers, a White House spokesman said on Monday.
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the U.S. military on Monday not to believe that technology can solve every problem and suggested quick-fix, low-tech solutions can sometimes be more valuable.
Reuters - U.S. diplomat Chris Hill will try to re-engage North Korea on how to verify its nuclear claims and rescue a crumbling disarmament-for-aid deal in Pyongyang this week, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Reuters - Consumers facing rising unemployment kept their spending unchanged in August even though incomes rose, according to a government report Monday that showed optimism about the economy's direction was fading.
Reuters - Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday appointed a prosecutor to examine potential criminal charges in the Justice Department's firings of nine federal prosecutors after an inquiry found evidence several of the dismissals were politically motivated.
Reuters - Stocks plunged on Monday as the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion financial sector bailout plan, renewing fear about frozen world credit markets and the global economy's health.
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers prepared to vote on Monday on a $700 billion government fund to buy bad debt as the global financial crisis kept markets on tenterhooks by forcing European authorities to rescue troubled banks.
