AP - Washington's financial bailout plan is now law. So the credit spigot will start flowing again, banks will resume lending, and an economic recovery can begin, right?

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

AFP - Turkey's civilian and military leaders held emergency talks Saturday as Ankara vowed strong action after 15 soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels died in clashes sparked by a rebel attack near the Iraqi border.

AFP - The leaders of Europe's four main economic powers held crisis talks on the global financial meltdown on Saturday, brushing aside a dispute that killed off talk of a joint bailout package.

Reuters - Sarah Palin's televised showdown with Joe Biden drew nearly 70 million U.S. viewers, far surpassing last week's John McCain-Barack Obama face-off and ranking as the most watched vice presidential debate ever.

Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday a landmark nuclear trade with India had been completed but she was unable to sign the pact during a visit to New Delhi because of bureaucratic delays back home.

Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign called his Democratic opponent Barack Obama a bald-faced liar on Saturday as the two sides traded barbs over reforming health insurance.

Reuters - European leaders vowed at the start of an emergency summit on Saturday to do what they could to fend off a financial crisis that snowballed out of Wall Street and is now hitting banks in Europe.

AP - For the first time this season Joe Paterno wasn't on the Penn State sideline at kickoff, opting to coach from the press box Saturday against Purdue because of a lingering right hip injury.

AP - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

AP - Shock jock Howard Stern has embraced tradition.

AP - The U.S. military said Saturday it has killed an al-Qaida in Iraq leader suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad as well as recent bombings and the 2006 videotaped execution of a Russian official.