As the final trading day of 2006 gets underway, the stock market is poised to post its fourth straight year of solid gains. And what a solid year this turned out to be.
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AP - Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein's neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. They went to bed as new video emerged showing Saddam exchanging taunts with onlookers before the gallows floor dropped away and the former dictator swung from the rope.
AP - The nation honored Gerald R. Ford in funeral ceremonies Saturday that recalled the touchstones of his life, from combat in the Pacific to a career he cherished in Congress to a presidency he did not seek. He was remembered as the man called to heal the country from the trauma of Watergate.
AP - At least 80 Iraqis died in bombings and other attacks Saturday as they prepared to celebrate Islam's biggest holiday, their first without Saddam Hussein.
Executed former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein will be buried Sunday in the same Tikrit cemetery as his sons, the son of a tribal leader says. A witness said Hussein was defiant to the end, arguing with guards and refusing to wear a hood.
The U.S. military announced the death of two more American soldiers Saturday, raising the number of American personnel killed in Iraq this month to 108 and making it the deadliest month of 2006.