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Iraqi stock traders mark up the sales board at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad. The Iraq stock exchange is enjoying a boom, while the rest of the world is near a financial meltdown. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Europe acts to strengthen banks

Major European economies have announced multi-billion euro rescue schemes to shore up their banks.

BBC

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Graphic: world markets

International Herald Tribune

House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package

House Republicans objected to new spending measures that congressional Democrats are considering as they draft a $150 billion economic stimulus package.

CNN

US stocks rally on bank rescue plans

Wall Street stocks rallied strongly following their worst week since the Depression era as authorities around the world sought once again to stave off the financial crisis with a fresh round of interventions.

Financial Times

Soros backs plan to buy equity in banks

ABC News

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What is the difference between depression and recession?

Slate

Your money: spotting the bottom

YouTube

Morgan Stanley regains market confidence

Financial Times

Is the US fighting force big enough?

American's armed forces are growing bigger to reduce the strains from seven years of war, but it may need to be bigger in an era of "persistent conflict," analysts argue.

Christian Science Monitor

Top general: NATO not losing Afghan war

ABC News

NATION

Millions of new voters registering nationwide as state deadlines close

Keen interest in the presidential election and old-fashioned grassroots organizing is translating into a surge in voter registration across the country, including large numbers of first-time voters.

San Francisco Chronicle

Evacuees return after PA chemical spill, investigation begins

A recommendation to evacuate 2,500 people in four Butler County communities due to an accidental toxic chemical release from the Indspec Chemical Corp. plant in Petrolia was lifted.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Wildfire burns 750 acres north of LA

Firefighters gained ground on a wildfire that forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people in a rugged area 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

San Jose Mercury News

Fires roar through California

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama adds emergency planks to economic platform

With his campaign gaining momentum, Senator Barack Obama is adding emergency planks to an economic platform that he says is designed to help average Americans through the downturn.

International Herald Tribune

Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument

An Ohio death row inmate was executed after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be executed.

CNN

Post ‘troopergate,’ Palin still popular in Alaska, just not as much

A bipartisan panel of state legislators released a 263-page investigative report that concluded Palin had abused her power by summoning the authority of her office to pursue a personal grudge.

Christian Science Monitor

Palin: probe cleared me of any wrongdoing

CBS News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Krugman wins Nobel for economics

American academic and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize for his analysis of trade patterns and economic activities.

BBC

Oliver Stone's take on the president: 'W.'

Directed by protean Hollywood muckraker Oliver Stone and starring Josh Brolin as a blithering George W. Bush, "W." is not just a critique, it's a critique of a sitting president.

Newsday

HEALTH

Pediatricians vote to double vitamin D requirement for children

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new vitamin D guidelines for infants, children and adolescents when medical conditions are attributable to low vitamin D levels.

ABC News

Nature's fix for flawless skin

The latest crop of skin rejuvenators comes straight from mother nature: five potent botanicals that firm, smooth, and tone.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

New surges in wave and tidal power

The fledgling ocean energy industry is awash in ideas for making electricity from moving water, but it is still reaching for a toehold in the commercial world.

CBS News

Exploding pumpkins: Gourd, what a mess

Each year, thousands of pumpkin growers compete to grow the biggest pumpkin the world has ever seen.

NPR

EDUCATION

NYC teachers sue to wear political buttons in school

The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were violated.

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

Brad Pitt's first 'Make It Right' homes are now completed

Some three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, 68-year-old grandmother Gloria Guy was on hand to give the actor a big hug.

Huffington Post

WORLD

North Korea reopens nuclear plant for UN inspection

North Korea has agreed to allow United Nations inspectors back into its nuclear complex at Yongbyon, in response to the United States removing the country from its list of states sponsoring terrorism.

Christian Science Monitor

Daily life in North Korea

MSNBC

Hindu threat to Christians in India

India, the world's most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms.

International Herald Tribune

Thousands of Christians flee Mosul

CBS News

BUSINESS

US not always averse to nationalization, despite its free-market image

The United States has a culture that celebrates laissez-faire capitalism as the economic ideal, but the practice is sometimes different.

International Herald Tribune

Record drop for gas prices

Gasoline prices extended their slide, dropping more than four cents a gallon and coming within 25 cents of breaching the $3 level, according to a daily survey of credit card swipes.

CNN

SPORTS

Dodgers beat Phillies, fight their way back in NL championship series

Tired of getting brushed back in the NL championship series, Los Angeles Dodgers came out ready to fight their way back against Philadelphia.

MSNBC

Longhorns make historic leap to peak of AP's Top 25

Texas rode its resounding Red River Rivalry upset right to No. 1, leapfrogging Alabama in the Associated Press top 25.

ESPN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Foreclosures: Did God want you to get that mortgage?

Has the so-called prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the financial crisis?

TIME

The financial crisis: What would the Talmud tell us to do?

Could the financial crisis have been avoided if traders followed Jewish traditions embodied in the Bible and the Talmud?

TIME

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Shark 'virgin birth' confirmed

A female blacktip shark in Virginia fertilized her own egg without mating with a male shark, new DNA evidence shows.

National Geographic

New crew blasts off for International Space Station

A new crew that will live and work aboard the International Space Station rocketed into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

MarketWatch

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