At least 30 people have been killed in the poor Andean nation this week, Interior Minister Alfredo Rada said.

The power of love is stronger than the evil which threatens us," Benedict told at least 100,000 pilgrims gathered for Mass on a rain-soaked field.

But they couldn't handle a little roughage.

Deal could resolve state's budget crisis

When you have one of those days when everything's clicking and you feel like you can't be stopped, it brings back a lot of memories of those great years," he said.

Sixty-four percent of readers said the government should pay for illegal-immigrant emergency care, and 53 percent said the feds should pay 100 percent of such costs.

Director Adria Petty gained rare access to Hilton and her inner circle, presenting a behind-the-scenes portrait of the privilege, preening and planning that went into creating the Hilton tabloid phenomenon.

But the pro-Cubs crowd of 23,441 that showed up for the first makeup game of the hurricane-affected series between the Cubs and Houston got a chance to watch Carlos Zambrano make history.

HTG's chief scientific officer, Bruce Seligmann, founded the company in 1997. Since then, HTG has grown to about 29 people at its offices in Tucson and Madison, Wis.

Matt Cassel was efficient running the offense in his first NFL start, taking over for the injured quarterback and leading the Patriots over Brett Favre and the New York Jets 19-10 on Sunday.

Crude's steep decline — prices tumbled as much as $7 over the weekend — also came as early signs suggested that Hurricane Ike delivered less damage than feared to the Gulf Coast energy oil and gas infrastructure.

Briefing reporters at the White House, Paulson said he "never once" considered it would be appropriate to put taxpayer money at risk to resolve the problems at Lehman Brothers. The nation's fourth largest investment bank filed for bankruptcy protection earlier

It was the greatest playground you could ever imagine," says Glenna Kornegay, 45, who along with her parents and siblings lived in a junkyard on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyo.

The action came as U.S. and foreign commercial banks were hashing out a plan to inoculate the global financial system against the possible failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

As the floodwaters began to recede from the first hurricane to make a direct hit on a major U.S. city since Katrina, authorities planned to go door to door into the night to reach an untold number of people across

In the Sweden-Italy match, the Swedish North-South pair got to four spades on the bidding shown. Declarer made six for 480 points when he luckily found East with the K-x of diamonds and so lost only a club trick.

In villages close to the border, illegal immigrants pass through regularly. However, some pass back through after being caught by the Border Patrol. Back and forth they go, whether being helped by locals, walking or being transported by the Border

However, such media matters are meaningless to coach Dennis Erickson, whose top priority is picking up the pieces of a Sun Devil squad that on Sunday was still staggering from an upset loss in overtime against Nevada-Las Vegas. The task