AP - President Bush, who is being pressed by European leaders to sign on to global financial market reform, will host a summit of nations in the near future to discuss the economic crisis that has shaken markets around the world, a senior administration official said Saturday.
AP - Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraq's parliament to reject a pact that would extend U.S. presence in Iraq for three years as tens of thousands of his followers marched through Baghdad's streets Saturday to reinforce that demand.
AP - Judy Katz reached her breaking point with stocks when the Dow collapsed at the start of this month, free-falling as much as 2,400 points and taking a big chunk of her life's savings with it before she hastily cashed out all of her funds.
Police have deactivated an Amber Alert for Cole Puffinburger, 6, who was abducted Wednesday from his Las Vegas, Nevada, home, according to Nevada's Amber Alert Web site. Late Friday, the boy's grandfather was arrested in Cole's kidnapping, which police say was drug-related.
A female suicide bomber wounded five members of a local Awakening Council who were manning a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Saturday, a local police official said.
President Bush plans to host French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Union, at Camp David on Saturday to discuss the global financial situation.