AP - Emergency operators listening to trapped callers' heartbreaking pleas from the burning World Trade Center repeatedly said help was on the way while they struggled with crashing computers, utter confusion and their own emotions, several hours of 911 calls released Friday show.

AP - Jill Carroll, described as "emotionally fragile," went reluctantly to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone — the place her captors had warned her was infiltrated with insurgents — and spent Friday in seclusion, recovering from 82 days of captivity.

AP - Earthquakes and aftershocks rattled western Iran one after another, flattening villages and sending frightened homeowners into the streets. By Friday morning 70 people were dead, 1,200 wounded, and thousands homeless.