AP - With extra security on hand and holiday shoppers waiting at the doors, the Westroads Mall reopened Saturday morning, three days after a gunman killed eight people and himself at the mall's Von Maur store.
AP - The Justice Department and CIA announced a joint inquiry Saturday into the spy agency's destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected terrorists.
AP - Pentagon chief Robert Gates lashed out at Iran on Saturday for seeking to cause chaos "everywhere you turn" regardless of the blood spilled and said its neighbors must demand that Tehran renounce any intention of pursuing nuclear weapons.
John Darwin, who was thought to have been lost at sea five years ago, has been charged on two counts of fraud, British police say. Darwin came to worldwide attention after he walked into a police station in London last weekend, where he reportedly said: "I think I am a missing person."
The wife of "missing canoeist" John Darwin has claimed he faked his own death to avoid mounting debts, hiding away in the family home for years even from his own sons, according to British media reports.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called on the international community to step up pressure on Iran to vow not to develop nuclear weapons, suspend uranium enrichment and open up its nuclear facilities for inspection.