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A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial.

Victory came ugly for the Jets, featuring three turnovers by quarterback Brett Favre, but it they beat the winless Bengals nonetheless.

European countries, led by Germany and France, pledged to take equity stakes in distressed banks and to guarantee lending for periods up to five years.

Countries that use the euro will temporarily guarantee bank refinancing in one of several measures taken at an emergency summit to find European solutions to the global financial crisis, said French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

A new school for students with high-functioning autism is part of an effort to keep such children in New York.

The U.S. and Iraq are close to agreeing on a final draft of a security agreement that includes a compromise on legal jurisdiction over American soldiers, people familiar with the talks said.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has put in place a number of temporary facilities to inject liquidity into the financial system, which will have to be unwound at some point, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said.

Financial companies are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, yet applications to graduate business schools rose this year.

Seven years ago, eBay was an online juggernaut and Amazon.com its weaker rival. How times have changed.

North Korea on Sunday welcomed the move and said that it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities.