- Court Blocks Release Of Chinese Muslims A federal appeals court has blocked temporarily a judge's decision to move 17 Chinese Muslims immediately from Guantanamo Bay to freedom in the United States.
- U.S. May Consider Taliban Talks With U.S. and NATO forces suffering their deadliest year so far in Afghanistan, some officials have endorsed efforts to reach out to members of the Taliban considered willing to seek an accommodation with President Hamid Karzai's government.
- Russia, Georgia Dispute Troop Pullback Russian troops pulled back from their positions outside Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia but held their ground in contested areas, setting the stage for more tension between the two countries that waged war in August.
- Stocks Suffer Sixth Straight Day Of Losses Wall Street suffered a last-minute dip as an emergency interest rate cut failed to alleviate investors' fears that the paralysis in the credit markets will set off a global recession.
- Candidates On The Best And Worst Of Times In "Presidential Questions," Katie Couric asks questions that move the candidates well beyond the usual sound-bites. This installment: "What do you think is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to this country?"
- Stevens Corruption Trial Will Continue The wiretaps have been played, the cabin photos have been viewed and the last witness against Sen. Ted Stevens has stepped down. Now prosecutors must persuade the judge not to abort the corruption trial against the longest serving GOP senator.
- Fed Grants AIG Additional $37B Loan The Federal Reserve has agreed to provide insurance giant American International Group with a loan of up to $37.8 billion, on top of one made to the troubled company last month.
- Conviction In "Precious Doe" Murder Trial A man was convicted of murder after kicking his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumping her body in the woods, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."
- Stem Cells From Testicles Show Promise Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.
- Stalemate Works To Obama's Favor Despite a hunger for answers to the economic crisis, the candidates offer little in the way of solutions during the second presidential debate, leaving Barack Obama with the edge heading into the final month of the campaign.
- Blackberry's New "Storm" Rolls In Research In Motion and Verizon Wireless officially introduced the first touch-screen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm.
- Campaign Shifts Back To Economic Crisis Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama left the second presidential debate with the campaign unavoidably shifted to the topic of economic crisis and onto the electoral terrain of traditionally conservative states, reports the Politico.
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