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Russia on Sunday test-fired several types of missiles, including intercontinental ones, as part of a month-long war game, local media reported.

World leaders look for joint action

Top finance officials from the 20 major economies pledged to work together to find solutions to the financial turmoil. US to Buy Stake in Banks PBOC to Boost Local Demand Full Coverage

DPRK set to resume nuclear disablement

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed it from a list of states that Washington says sponsor terrorism. DPRK off US Blacklist

Deepening Financial Turmoil

Financial turmoil in the United States is taking toll on the global economy as the crisis spreads.

Jolie breastfeeding on W magazine cover

Kashmir's first train in Srinagar

The US government plans to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist on October 11 after getting assurances the northeastern Asian nation has agreed to a plan to inspect its nuclear facilities, the Associated Press reported.

Raging fire in Little Tujunga Canyon

The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede.

Samaritan hut decorated for Jewish holiday

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government Sunday approved a series of preventive measures to shore up its financial system and to avert any possible breakdown, the official Emirates News Agency reported.

Mugabe cedes some power in Zimbabwe deal