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.

AFP - American millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father's footsteps Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world's sixth space tourist.

AFP - A suspected Islamic militant believed to be involved in the kidnapping in June of a prominent Philippine broadcaster and her crew has been arrested, the military said Sunday.