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• Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The latest in a barrage of suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none was believed to be a foreign al-Qaida fighter, officials said Sunday. Two unmanned airplanes were seen above ...
• Source: U.K. banks set to unveil bailout plans
LONDON - Major British banks are likely to announce their plans to recapitalize early on Monday, a person familiar with the matter said, a move which could see the government take multi-billion pound stakes in several lenders. Banks were in crisis ...
• Bombers strike in Mosul, Baghdad, killing 13
BAGHDAD - Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad. The series of attacks shows ...
• Google founder visits Russian cosmodrome
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist. Richard Garriott, a U.S. computer ...
• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest U.S.-based and European financial institutions have pushed the global financial system to the brink of systemic meltdown," IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said. The IMF endorsed a plan of ...