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Euro-zone chiefs meet to coordinate on meltdown (AP)
12 10 2008

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, right, attend a press conference after a France Germany summit at the Charles de Gaulle's museum and memorial on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 in Colombey Les Deux Eglises, eastern France.Sarkozy and Merkel are meeting for a France-Germany summit a day before the Paris Eurogroup Summit on the financial crisis. (AP Photo/ Jeff Pachoud, Pool)

AP - European leaders are searching for a common response to the spreading financial crisis which has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores.

Hurricane Norbert weakens, nears Mexico mainland (AP)
12 10 2008

A girl struggles against winds during Hurricane Norbert in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Hurricane Norbert slammed into Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula with torrential rains and screaming winds, forcing scores of people to flee flooded homes. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

AP - Hurricane Norbert barreled toward the Mexican mainland early Sunday after tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee widespread flooding on the Baja California peninsula.

NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP)
12 10 2008

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Patricia McNerney speaks at a news conference on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Washington. North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

AP - After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."

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