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This edition was generated on Fri Oct 10 08:45:01 EDT 2008
NEW YORK - Wall Street appeared headed to a sharply lower open Friday, extending a global sell-off on concerns that even low interest rates won't help end the worsening credit crisis. Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 282 points ahead of the opening bell in New York.
KITTANNING, Pa. - The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times.
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned.
RICHMOND, Va. - Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.
NEW YORK - We've already seen the baby pictures now see the photo of Angelina Jolie apparently breastfeeding on the cover of W magazine.
PHILADELPHIA - Pat Burrell, Chase Utley and the Philadelphia Phillies had more than enough power to offset Manny Ramirez in the NL championship series opener.
WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Trailing in opinion polls, Republican presidential nominee John McCain pressed his effort to raise doubts about Barack Obama's character on Thursday with a fresh attack on his Democratic rival's contacts with a former radical who became a college professor.
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's economic powers faced huge pressure on Friday to devise remedies to revive the global banking system and end panic selling in financial markets.
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - At one intersection of Wall Street and Main Street, retailers and shoppers say America's economic woes are spurring new patterns in consumer behavior.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has opened a 5-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the White House race and expanded his support among women voters, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released Friday.
OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a decades-long career of peacemaking around the globe from Namibia to Kosovo.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.S. government is weighing guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring al U.S. bank deposits, in a bid to unfreeze bank lending and staunch massive losses in equity markets, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States and North Korea are near a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear deal, news reports said on Friday, while Japan said it could accept rewarding the North by taking it off a U.S. terrorism blacklist.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
LONDON (AFP) - Global stock markets spiralled ever deeper into the vortex on Friday as pressure mounted for world leaders to throw up a decisive wall to contain the worst financial inferno since the Great Depression.
OSLO (AFP) - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has spent 30 years ending conflict in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
BANGKOK (AFP) - Leaders of Thai anti-government protests were granted bail Friday after surrendering to police and immediately vowed new rallies, raising fears of mounting turmoil days after deadly street clashes.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AFP) - Democratic White House front-runner Barack Obama warned against "fear or panic" and called for quick action on the Wall Street bailout after world stocks went into free-fall.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized nations were due to meet in Washington on Friday in search of a solution to the growing financial firestorm.
PARIS (AFP) - Approaching recession and a banking cash crisis are cutting into global demand for oil and may set back investment in new oilfields, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans may like to make fun of girls who are good at math, but this attitude is robbing the country of some of its best talent, researchers reported on Friday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The toll of Chinese children ill from toxic milk formula may have nearly doubled since the Health Ministry's last public count, local media reports show, but an official said on Wednesday the number of new cases was falling.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Wednesday that negotiations with some members of the Taliban could provide a way to reduce violence in sections of Afghanistan gripped by an intensifying insurgency.
PHILADELPHIA - Pat Burrell, Chase Utley and the Philadelphia Phillies had more than enough power to offset Manny Ramirez in the NL championship series opener.
NEW YORK - Wall Street appeared headed to a sharply lower open Friday, extending a global sell-off on concerns that even low interest rates won't help end the worsening credit crisis. Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 282 points ahead of the opening bell in New York.