The Nuclear Suppliers Group agreed Saturday to lift a 34-year ban on selling nuclear technology to India, even though it hasn't signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Many Egyptians complain the government is not doing enough to save slum-dwellers buried in a Saturday morning rock slide that killed at least 31 people.
Asian markets rallied early Monday, even as the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reinforced concerns about the U.S. economy and its reliance on foreign investors.
AP - Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters for the second time in a week on Sunday as squalls from Hurricane Ike killed 58 people and collapsed a bridge that cut the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives.
AP - The Bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.
AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.
Hurricane Ike slammed into Cuba Sunday, making landfall in the eastern province of Holguin. Winds at landfall were estimated to be 125 miles per hour. Earlier Sunday, Ike hit the Turks and Caicos Islands, leaving a trail of ruin. Rains and flooding from Ike have killed at least 73 people in Haiti.
Federal officials today announced an extraordinary takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, signaling a dramatic move to shore up the nation's housing market. The historic takeover of the duo is aimed at heading off what President Bush says would have been an "unacceptable" risk of failure for the economy.
Citing "emerging evidence," the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan asked for an investigation into reports that more than 90 Afghan civilians died in a recent U.S. military operation in western Afghanistan.