AP - The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt by the administration to salvage a nuclear deal with Pyongyang before President Bush's term ends.

AP - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.

AP - Financial officials from the world's wealthiest industrial countries are pledging decisive action to deal with the biggest upheavals to hit the global financial system since the Great Depression.

AFP - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, who has spent 30 years helping end conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia.

AFP - US President George W. Bush insisted on Friday the raging global financial firestorm would be put out as panic-stricken markets suffered more staggering losses.

Reuters - International investors counted the cost of their involvement with Iceland Friday after a meltdown in its banking system turned the country from a popular financial player to a pauper in just a few days.

Reuters - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a decades-long career of peacemaking around the world from Namibia to Kosovo.

Reuters - The Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage on Friday in a victory for gay-rights advocates that will allow couples to marry in the New England state.

Reuters - At one intersection of Wall Street and Main Street, retailers and shoppers say America's economic woes are spurring new patterns in consumer behavior.

Reuters - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said on Friday a mounting financial crisis required coordinated global steps as he focused on the U.S. economy and rejected Republican John McCain's personal attacks.

Reuters - The George W. Bush administration may give an unlimited guarantee to bank deposits or buy a share of major banks in an effort to stabilize the battered financial sector and reeling markets.

Reuters - Wall Street titans buckled under the weight of a global stock market panic on Friday as the finance chiefs of the world's major economies gathered in Washington to confront the inescapable financial crisis.

AP - Magic Johnson says he's outraged that a pair of Minneapolis talk radio hosts accused him of faking AIDS. KTLK's Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker's conservative talk show on Wednesday. The context for the remarks wasn't clear.