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  1. Auto industry to press Congress for $50B in loans (AP)

    2. In this March 19, 2008 file photo, a Toyota Prius promotes hybrid technology at the New York International Auto Show. Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:37 pm

  2. US takes over Fannie, Freddie (AFP)

    3. The Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, DC, July 2008. The US governmenthas taken control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, placing them in a government AFP - The US government took over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday, placing them in a "conservatorship" to help avert a financial system meltdown from the housing crisis.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:33 pm

  3. Government seizes control of GSEs (Reuters)

    4. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson testifies before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. government on Sunday seized control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an aggressive move to help the distressed U.S. housing market and economy.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:25 pm

  4. Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts (AP)

    5. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks about the troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during a news conference at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds in Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush's tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:18 pm

  5. Hurricane Ike rages over Bahamas, clips Haiti, Cuba and US next (AFP)

    6. Wilmington Public Service workers prepare to move a tree downed by Tropical Storm Hanna in North Carolina on September 6. After ravaging the Turks and Caicos Islands, Hurricane Ike headed toward the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast.(AFP/Getty Images/Logan Mock-Bunting)AFP - The latest hurricane to tear through the Atlantic and Caribbean battered Turks and Caicos and the southern Bahamas Sunday and was hampering relief efforts in flood-devastated Haiti, as Cuba and the United States gird for the storm's wrath.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:16 pm

  6. CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang (AP)

    7. This undated photo provided by CERN on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 shows a view into the Grid PC farm at the CERN Computer Centre, where banks of computers process and store data produced on the CERN systems. When the LHC starts operation in September 2008, it will produce enough data every year to fill a stack of CDs 20 km tall. To handle this huge amount of data, CERN has also developed the Grid, allowing processing power to be shared between computer centres around the world. (AP Photo/CERN) ** MANDATORY CREDIT: CERN * NO SALES *AP - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:12 pm

  7. McCain says he will include Democrats in Cabinet (Reuters)

    8. Presidential nominees Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) are shown in this combination of file photographs from campaign stops from July 18, 2008 in Warren Michigan (McCain) and August 4, 2008 (Obama) in Lansing, Michigan. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)Reuters - Republican nominee John McCain said in an interview aired on Sunday he would bring Democrats into his Cabinet and administration as part of his attempt to change the political atmosphere in Washington.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:11 pm

  8. Officials announce takeover of mortgage giants (AP)

    9. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., left, speaks during a news conference with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart, right, in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 on the bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, announced Sunday that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:11 pm

  9. AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents (AP)
    10. AP - In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.

    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 5:09 pm

  10. One More Time: Britney returns to MTV VMAs (AP)

    11. In this Dec. 1, 2007 file photo, singer Britney Spears poses on the press line at the Scandinavian Style Mansion party in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)AP - Another year, another attempted comeback for Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 4:44 pm

  11. Menacing Hurricane Ike powers toward Cuba, Gulf (Reuters)

    12. Hurricane Ike is visible east-northeast of Grand Turk Island in a satellite image taken September 5, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Dangerous Hurricane Ike roared toward Cuba with 135 mph (215 kph) winds on Sunday and was expected to sweep into the Gulf of Mexico where it could threaten the U.S. oil patch and possibly New Orleans.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 4:36 pm

  12. Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again (AP)

    13. Residents wade through a flooded street after heavy rains in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 3:53 pm

  13. Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf (AP)

    14. This image provided by NOAA taken at 11:45 p.m. EDT Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 shows Hurricane Ike over the Turks and Caicos. At 200 a.m. EDT the large eye of hurricane ike was located over the Turks iand Caicos Islands and about 115 miles east of Great Inagua Island in the southeastern Bahamas. Ike is moving on a motion just south of due west near 15 mph. A west to west-southwest motion is expected to continue today with a turn toward the west-northwest expected on Monday. On this track the core of the hurricane will move over or near the southeastern Bahamas this morning and move near or over eastern Cuba tonight and early Monday. Maximum sustained winds remain near 135 mph with higher gusts. Ike is an extremely dangerous Category Four Hurricane according to forecasters. Some strengthening is possible before Ike moves over eastern Cuba. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 3:51 pm

  14. Iraqi police: Roadside bombs wound 14 in Baghdad (AP)

    15. A wounded Iraqi policeman recovers at al-Kindi hospital, after a roadside bomb attack on his patrol in east Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The attack wounded three police and two civilians, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 3:36 pm

  15. Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site (Reuters)

    16. Egyptian soldiers run beside a bulldozer in Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo September 7, 2008. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters)Reuters - Egyptian workers cut through a railway embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a Cairo shantytown.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 3:34 pm

  16. Iran to hold presidential election in June 2009 (Reuters)

    17. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives at Mehrabad airport in Tehran after attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, September 7, 2008. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)Reuters - Iran will hold its 2009 presidential election on June 12, when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is widely expected to stand for a second four-year term despite criticism over his economic policies.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 3:28 pm

  17. Gators snap 6-game losing streak to Miami, 26-3 (AP)

    18. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, center, celebrates with teammates after Florida defeated Miami 26-3 in an NCAA college football game in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was good early and even better late, enough to help No. 5 Florida snap a six-game losing streak against rival Miami. Tebow threw two touchdown passes, speedster Percy Harvin ran for a score and the Gators used a swarming defensive effort to beat the Hurricanes 26-3 Saturday night at The Swamp.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 11:42 am

  18. Boeing machinists walk off the job as talks fail (Reuters)

    19. Boeing machinist Rebekah LovellFord pickets in front of the company's Renton, Washington plant September 6, 2008. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)Reuters - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of emergency talks.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 9:54 am

  19. Lebanese hold reconciliation talks in volatile city (Reuters)
    20. Reuters - Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri held talks with an Alawite community leader in a volatile northern city overnight, paving the way for agreement to end four months of sectarian tensions, politicians said on Sunday.

    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 9:31 am

  20. U.S. forces and Afghan police kill over 20 Taliban (Reuters)

    21. Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during the opening ceremony for the National Institute of Administration and Management in Kabul September 6, 2008. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)Reuters - U.S.-led soldiers, backed by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban fighters in two separate clashes, officials said on Sunday.


    Posted on 7 September 2008 | 9:24 am