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  • European leaders hatch aid plan for banks in crisis
    PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders, rushing to craft a credible response before fearful world markets reopen, pledged on Sunday to pump public money into banks battered by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.



  • McCain considering new economic plan
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is considering rolling out a new comprehensive economic package to tackle the U.S. financial crisis, one of his closest supporters said on Sunday.



  • Russia's Medvedev test fires long-range missile
    PLESETSK COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia's armed forces.



  • North Korea to resume disablement after nuclear deal
    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it would resume taking apart its plutonium-producing nuclear plant and allow in inspectors in response to a U.S. decision to remove it from a terrorism blacklist and salvage a faltering nuclear deal.



  • HBOS says takeover by Lloyds TSB still on
    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest mortgage provider HBOS Plc said the takeover of the bank by Lloyds TSB remained on, rejecting a report on Sunday that the deal had collapsed.



  • AIDS vaccine focus shifts after disappointments
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global AIDS vaccine conference this week will seek fresh strategies against the HIV virus, with experts weighing the value of basic laboratory research against large-scale human clinical trials after a string of disappointments.



  • U.S. space tourist blasts off in Russian rocket
    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.



  • Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on
    LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons, though the new device cannot yet sniff out explosives.



  • Prayers, candles to remember Bali bomb victims
    DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings said prayers and lit candles on Sunday during a small, private ceremony to remember the sixth anniversary of the deadly attacks.



  • Australia guarantees bank deposits to combat crisis
    CANBERRA/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand gave a blanket guarantee to all bank deposits Sunday in a move likely to raise pressure on other economies to do the same, amid a crisis of confidence in the global financial system.




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