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• Vienna’s dancing horses get first female riders
Sept. 5: Two, self- declared 'freaks', appear at the opening of London's Ripley's 'Believe it or not' Museum. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. VIENNA - Two women have made history at Vienna's Spanish Riding School by becoming the first female riders ...
• Bhutto widower is elected Pakistan’s president
Already head of the main ruling party, Zardari becomes one of the most powerful civilian leaders in Pakistan's turbulent 61-year history. Last month, he marshaled a coalition that forced longtime U.S. ally Musharraf to quit as head of state.
• No. 4 Oklahoma's air assault crushes Cincy
The home winning streak, which started after TCU snapped the Sooners’ 19-game stretch in the 2005 opener, is the third-longest in school history and the first that long since a 20-game stretch that lasted from 1976 to 1980.
• Mortgage giants were blind to housing risks
WASHINGTON - Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — despite their robust cadre of economists and mortgage experts — failed to heed warnings that the most dramatic housing bubble in U.S. history would burst. The companies — particularly ...
• Silver State Bank in Nevada is shut
IndyMac also was the second-largest financial institution to close in U.S. history, after Continental Illinois National Bank in 1984. The FDIC has been operating the bank, now called IndyMac Federal Bank, under a conservatorship.