Reuters - European Union funding for an African
peacekeeping force in Darfur has run out, and the United States
and Arab League should help cover the costs until a replacement
force arrives, the EU's aid chief said on Friday.
AP - Hours after a massive immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, lawmakers and lobbyists began seeking ways to pass bits and pieces of the measure important to their constituents.
Reuters - AT&T Inc. sold almost all its
initial stock of Apple Inc.'s iPhone within hours of the device
going on sale, an AT&T spokesman said on Saturday.
AP - Vince Carter opted out of the final year of a contract with the New Jersey Nets that would have paid the All-Star guard $16.3 million this coming season.
AP - Michelle Wie withdrew from the U.S. Women’s Open after shooting a 6-over through nine holes Saturday with a left wrist injury.
AP - Two men rammed a flaming Jeep Cherokee into the main terminal of Glasgow airport Saturday, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance in what appeared to be the third attempted terror attack on Britain in two days, witnesses said.
AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has the final say in determining who leads the party at the expiration of his tenure in 2009.
AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned a U.S. raid Saturday in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City slum — a politically sensitive district for him — in which American troops searching for Iranian-linked militants sparked a firefight that left 26 Iraqis dead.
AFP - A burning jeep smashed into the main terminal building at Scotland's Glasgow Airport on Saturday, setting it on fire and sparking panic a day after two car bombings were foiled in central London.
AP - The United States and South Korea signed a free-trade agreement Saturday that reflected U.S. calls for stricter labor and environmental standards.