Pakistan has overtaken Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide-bomb deaths this year, its intelligence agency reports. Thursday's attack in Islamabad struck the police's antiterrorism squad.
AP - President Bush and foreign financial officials staged repeated displays of joint resolve Saturday to combat an unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action.
AP - After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday.
AP - Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights. He "hopes that you won't notice how absolutely radical his idea is on this until it's too late," she said.
Sen. John McCain called a statement by a Georgia congressman Saturday, which compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace, "a brazen and baseless attack."
The United States today removed North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism. The two nations reached agreement "on an number of important verification measures" of North Korea's nuclear program, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.