AP - Authorities said Saturday they were "almost positive" they have found the body of a missing 13-year-old girl after recovering a corpse from a pond that appeared to match her description down to her green arm cast.
AP - Amid fresh jitters from Wall Street, finance officials from the world's industrial powers said Saturday surging oil prices could crimp the economy and they pledged to limit the fallout.
AP - Iraqi security forces surrounded a central Iraqi village Sunday after Sunni militants took as many as 100 Shiite Muslims hostage and threatened to kill the captives if other Shiites did not leave town. The explosive sectarian standoff played out, as 17 people including an American soldier were killed in insurgent attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
The six-day search for 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde ended Saturday when search dogs found her body partially submerged in a pond at a fish farm near her Florida home, Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee said. "It was clear from investigators that whoever put her there went to great effort to conceal her body," Gee said.
While one political party leader said Sunnis were conducting "terrorist siege" against Shiites near Baghdad, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a Shiite Muslim, called the situation a tribal standoff. U.S. military officials said they were aware there was trouble in Madain, but that Iraqi officials asked them not to interfere.