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Worries begin as retailers report weak September sales

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 11:48 p.m.

American shoppers went into hiding in September, sticking to buying the bare-bone essentials and leading many retailers to report dismal sales for the month as skittish consumers grappled with the financial meltdown spreading around the globe.

2 journalists missing in Lebanon

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 11:47 p.m.

Two American journalists vacationing in Lebanon have not been heard from since Oct. 1 and are believed to be missing, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday, appealing for information on the journalists’ possible whereabouts.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., shake hands before the start of the town hall-style presidential debate on Tuesday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

Heated debate focuses on economic crisis

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 1:05 a.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night.The debate was the second of three between the two major-party rivals and the only one to feature a format in which voters seated a few feet away posed questions to the candidates.They debated on a stage at Belmont University four weeks before Election Day in a race that has lately favored Obama, both in national polls and in surveys in pivotal battleground states.Many of the questions dealt with an economy in trouble.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Protestors clash with police in Thailand, 1 dead

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 12:46 a.m.

Thai protesters demanding the government resign set fire to cars and threw bottles and metal barricades at police, who used tear gas to break through their blockade around Parliament Tuesday. At least one person was killed and more 350 were injured.

Gates: U.S. to remain in Kosovo through late 2009

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 12:45 a.m.

The United States will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said just before he arrived here Tuesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the newly declared nation in the face of stern opposition from Russia.

Stocks tumble as Wall Street worries about financials

Wednesday, Oct. 8,2008 12:44 a.m.

Wall Street extended its steep declines Tuesday as enthusiasm over the Federal Reserve’s latest efforts to inject frozen credit markets with a dose of much-needed confidence gave way to concerns about financial companies’ balance sheets. Trading remained fractious, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing more than 300 points.

Strong earthquake kills 30 near Tibet’s capital with 6.6 magnitude

Monday, Oct. 6,2008 8:21 p.m.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency says 30 people are dead after an earthquake struck Tibet.

Eli Lilly to buy ImClone for more than $6 billion

Monday, Oct. 6,2008 8:20 p.m.

The drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. said Monday it has agreed to buy biotechnology company ImClone Systems Inc. for more than $6 billion in a deal that would expand its pipeline of cancer treatments.

Lawmaker’s home bombed in Pakistan; 15 dead

Monday, Oct. 6,2008 8:19 p.m.

A suicide bomber attacked a lawmaker’s house in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said.

O.J. Simpson jury says witness testimony not trusted

Monday, Oct. 6,2008 8:18 p.m.

Jurors who found O.J. Simpson guilty in his armed robbery trial say secret audio tapes and surveillance video swayed them more than witness accounts.

German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen stands in his laboratory on Monday in Heidelberg, Germany. Zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the AIDS virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer.

German, 2 French researchers share Nobel prize

Monday, Oct. 6,2008 8:17 p.m.

Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases.

Rice rejects suggestions concerning U.S.-Russian ties

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 9:14 p.m.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

2 wounded in a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 9:13 p.m.

Two people wounded in a suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s northwest have died, bringing the death toll to 24 in an assault that has deeply angered the Taliban, intelligence officials said Sunday.

Fannie Mae to forgive woman after shooting herself

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 9:13 p.m.

Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae said it is forgiving the mortgage debt of a 90-year-old woman who shot herself in the chest as sheriff’s deputies attempted to evict her.

O.J. Simpson is taken into custody after being found guilty on all 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy on Friday at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of double murder charges.

Simpson found guilty on all 12 charges

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 9:06 p.m.

In a city where luck means everything, O.J. Simpson came out the big loser – and his unlucky number in a case full of bizarre twists was 13.

Congress approves bailout bill

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 2:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON – With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.

U.S. to build new, more secure embassy in London

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:26 p.m.

The United States says it plans to sell its landmark London embassy and build a more secure facility on industrial land south of the river Thames.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek third term

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:24 p.m.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’s going to ask the City Council to change the city’s term-limits law so he can run for a third term.

Amish school shooting’s anniversary to be ‘normal’

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:22 p.m.

Nickel Mines, Penn.Empty pasture is all that’s left on the site of the one-room Amish schoolhouse where a gunman left five girls dead and five others wounded two years ago, and the anniversary of the massacre was expected to pass quietly Thursday.

Bush on bailout: ‘A lot of people are watching’

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:20 p.m.

President Bush and congressional leaders lobbied furiously Thursday for enough House support to push the troubled $700 billion financial industry bailout bill to the finish line, and the measure won converts from both parties on the eve of a showdown vote.

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