The plane was out of McNamara terminal Gate A19 and about to take off when the flight was canceled. The plane was supposed to leave Detroit at 1:30 p.m.

On Friday, the U.S. government indicated that Congressional negotiators will resume talks over the weekend to finalize their decision on the financial rescue and to transform the way Wall Street is regulated.

The toll increases will be used to raise money to pay debt and interest related to the authority's Central Artery - Tunnel Project including infrastructure improvement in the state's turnpike system.

Port Authority CEO Steve Bland said there was no progress with the negotiations. The last labor agreement expired in June.

After a year long financial crisis caused by bad mortgage loans in the United States, Washington Mutual, Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection together with its wholly-owned subsidiary, WMI Investment Corp.

According to the Denver Channel, Nikita Weis hired two young men for a total of $7,000 to kill his mother and dispose of her body. However, when the victim, Hyun Weis, was attacked Thursday in her home with a small

The safe haven ordinance, in its purest sense, is in place in all fifty states to curb instances of child abandonment and killing by distraught parents. In the majority of states, a parent can drop off a baby at hospital

John Wylie Needham, 25, was arrested over Labor Day weekend when police were called to his condominium to investigate a report of a fight. Needham reportedly answered the door in the nude and had to be tasered into submission.

Newman was a cinematic legend and became a creative businessman in his latter years.

After deliberating for five days, a jury was dismissed when the judge decided they were unable to decide unanimously whether to convict the former New York Mets minor league baseball player and actor of aggravated animal cruelty.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri says Nigeria in the next couple of years will place 50th position in the assessment of nations with corrupt practices by Transparency International (TI). Mrs. Waziri made the

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Belgian and Dutch officials are keeping in close touch in the fight to maintain confidence in financial group Fortis as liquidity concerns hammer its shares, officials said Saturday.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Paul Newman, known for his piercing blue eyes, boyish good looks and stellar performances in scores of hit Hollywood movies, has died, his foundation said Saturday. He was 83.

PARIS (AFP) - The IMF needs to tighten its control over financial markets following the global economic crisis, its managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in an interview due to be published on Sunday.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - A car bomb exploded near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Saturday, killing 17 people and wounding 14 in one of the deadliest attacks to hit Syria in more than a decade, state media said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers held urgent negotiations on Saturday in a bid to agree a 700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout before markets reopen after the weekend, voicing optimism a deal was within reach.

BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese astronaut Saturday became the first in his country's history to complete a space walk, a feat President Hu Jintao hailed as a "major breakthrough" for the emerging space power.

The car, packed with 200 kilograms of explosives, blew up on a highway in a southern residential neighbourhood shattering dozens of car and apartment windows. The charred booby-trapped car was seen sitting in the street near a primary school as

In the shadow of an unprecedented financial crisis, the Democratic and Republican candidates confronted the causes and proposed solutions to the threatened collapse of the financial services sector.

I'm feeling quite well. I greet the Chinese people and the people of the world," Mr. Zhai said as he climbed out of the craft, his historic achievement carried live on state television.