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Japan's stock market soared in early trading Tuesday, leading a second-day rally in Asian stocks after Wall Street staged a dramatic comeback from its worst week ever.

Pyongyang restores UN monitoring

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Monday restored access for UN monitors to its atom bomb complex following a deal with Washington to salvage a denuclearization process endangered by disputes over verification, diplomats said.

Obama outlines economic rescue plan

US presidential race front-runner Barack Obama on Monday rolled out what his campaign called a four-part "economic rescue plan" for the middle class.

German doing well after 1st double arm transplant

Global stock markets rebounded strongly Monday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia to the US intensified efforts to ease a financial crisis that threatened to throw the world into recession.

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

In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple. He was a teenager in a death camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as Christians.

Kashmir's first train in Srinagar

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.