AP - Global finance ministers kept searching for ways to tackle the unfolding financial crisis, turning their attention to its effects on rapidly developing countries and poor nations at risk of being swept up in the turmoil.

AP - Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants.

AP - When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.

AP - National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

Dozens of Taleban militants are killed by security forces in fighting in southern Afghanistan, local and British officials say.

A LEARNER driver and one of his best mates have died in a high-speed accident in Carrum Downs.

A GIRL has been taken to hospital after a 7m tree branch fell on her and another youngster as they ate at a Melbourne cafe.

THE Government says it will guarantee all deposits held in Australian financial institutions.

BRITT Lapthorne's grieving family believes her death was not an accident and is determined to find out how the young backpacker died.

UPDATE: PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that the Government will guarantee all deposits held in Australian financial institutions for the next three years.

A GIRL has been taken to hospital after a 7m tree branch fell on her and another youngster as they ate at a Melbourne cafe.

The latest and as they say one of the most ground-breaking versions of Mandriva Linux has been released as scheduled. Mandriva Linux 2009 is jam-packed with exciting new features and innovations that will try to cater everyone’s desktop needs. I had fun with Mandriva 2008, so I was really looking forward to this latest release.

YOUNG teenage violence has exploded with the brutal assault of a 13-year-old girl and boy in separate attacks. The girl's bashing was filmed by cheering classmates.