The students tested positive for a type of influenza that is probably swine flu, as officials from New York to Mexico raced to combat the spread of the virus.
If the pace set in the first quarter continues all year, the average pay for bankers — much of it in bonuses — will rebound from the lows of last year.
AP - Mexico's president assumed new powers Saturday to isolate people infected with a deadly swine flu strain as authorities struggled to contain an outbreak that world health officials warned could become a global epidemic.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. won't abandon them, even as she said the American troop withdrawal would stay on schedule despite a recent surge in violence.
AP - Authorities were on a nationwide manhunt for a marketing professor in the shooting deaths of three people Saturday at a community theater near the University of Georgia.
Two more cases of a potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus were confirmed Saturday in the U.S. In Mexico, where 68 people have died, the Health Ministry has been give emergency powers to battle the spread of the virus. The World Health organization has called the outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern."
Police are looking for a University of Georgia professor in the shooting deaths of three people on Saturday, authorities tell CNN. George Zinkhan is a professor in the department of marketing and distribution, according to the university Web site. CNN affiliat e WSB-TV said the victims were shot behind The Taylor-Grady House, a National Historic Landmark.
Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television's "Maude" and the sardonic Dorothy on "The Golden Girls," has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday.