As troubles in the US housing market ripple across the global economy, the health of banks has become one of the biggest financial uncertainties for 2008.
AP - President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to a key ally in a region where the U.S. casts neighboring Iran as a menace to stability.
AP - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in a brazen attack on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.
AP - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
Evidence shows Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was killed December 15, four days before she was reported missing, a North Carolina sheriff said today. Lauterbach's burned body was believed to have been found Saturday in Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean's backyard. Laurean is the subject of a nationwide search.