AP - After 11 consecutive losses and two straight playoff sweeps, the Los Angeles Angels had grown tired of being a bump in Boston's road to the World Series.
AP - Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease.
AP - Two scientists who have won acclaim for research into the growth of cancer cells could be candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine when the 2008 winners are presented on Monday, kicking off six days of Nobel announcements. -- read full article
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AP - Jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping said Sunday that they did not trust witness testimony and instead relied on recordings and other documented evidence to convict the former football star.
AP - Asian stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears of a global financial crisis that would depress world economic growth.
AFP - Barack Obama's White House campaign hammered Republican John McCain Sunday for wanting to "turn the page" on the US economic crisis and engage in low-blow personal attacks a month away from election day.
AFP - Germany extended a blanket guarantee to all private bank deposits Sunday as Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government was scrambling to salvage a rescue plan for the country's fourth biggest bank.
Reuters - The United States is not trying to poach Russia's allies in Central Asia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday during a visit to oil-rich Kazakhstan.
