Adding Sweeteners, Senate Pushes Bailout Plan • About 1,400 people crowded into New York's first foreclosure auction over the weekend. • Residents reached out their hands to receive clothes... some areas remain covered in mud and water • A stampede during a religious festival at a north Indian temple had left 148 dead, including more than 40 children • Police officers inspected a car after they shot dead two suspects • Two people lay wounded at the site of one of at least 16 blasts in Ahmedabad, India • An undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga, sending plumes of steam, ash and smoke up to 100 meters into the air • Three more Chinese brands of eggs containing melamine were identified • U.S. soldiers arriving from Afghanistan sit inside a plane at the US airbase • Thousands of supporters of Irans hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wave national and other coloured flags / Iranian opposition demonstrators protest in support of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran • U.S. Troops Get a Warm ‘Thank You’ From President Bush • Looters broke through the wall around Haiti’s main port yesterday and pillaged containers. As violence spread, at least four people were killed. • Kidnapping, Beheadings, and Defining What’s News • Bush Image, Eye on the Camera, Lift Stagecraft to New Heights • French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells • Water Engulfed Much of New Orleans yesterday... • A Statue of Hussein Falls in al-Firdos Square. Baghdad residents later danced on it in contempt of the toppled Iraqi dictator • Katrina Looter or Foodgetter? • ...Discovery’s nose landing gear door... as photographed by the crew of the International Space Station • Earthquake survivors reach out for blankets given out by aid workers in Balakot, Pakistan. • A Mother at a hospital in Nagappattinam... sat yesterday with the dead... • President Bush yesterday just before his speech at the United States Naval Academy counseling “time and patience” in the war in Iraq. • The bodies of 282 Bosnian Muslims massacred at Srebrenica await burial today... • Former Iraqi soldiers demanding back pay and pensions confronted American soldiers... Two Iraqi protesters were killed. • Bodies near Banda Aceh, Indonesia. • Rioting over Food in Argentina: Argentina’s economic crisis boiled over yesterday, with looters in Buenos Aires and across the country storming the stores and the president declaring a 30-day state of siege. Four people were killed in the rioting. Page A3• On the beach in Alappad... funeral pyres yesterday consumed the bodies of the dead. • Muslims shouted anti-American slogans outside Jama Mosque in New Delhi yesterday after Friday Prayers.• 34 Killed in 5 Suicide Bombings in Baghdad... An American soldier yesterday at the Red Cross headquarters in central Baghdad, one of five buildings struck by suicide bombers in the capital. • Liberians placed the bodies of their loved ones, killed in a rebel attack on Monrovia, outside the locked gate of the embassy yesterday • U.S. Blasts Compound in Effort to Kill Hussein. • Iraqi men... were held in a kitchen yesterday. Many had sacks put over their heads by their captors. • An Iraqi prisoner is pinned under a stretcher by an American soldier. The prison-abuse scandal in Iraq has stirred anger in the Arab world. • The Bodies of newly trained Iraqi soldiers on a remote road outside the town of Mandali yesterday. • Retaliating for two suicide bombings, the Israeli Army blew up a building yesterday near Yasir Arafat’s office. • A summer Camp Where Fireworks Are the Point...with a roar and a cloud of dust and smoke, a 50-foot-high wall of rock sloughed way with a shudder and a long crashing fall, and 20,000 tons of rock was suddenly on the ground • Hundreds of thousands of people stood Friday and chanted “God, God, protect Nasrallah.” Beirut, Lebanon • Afghan soldiers at an outpost in Wardak Province • Supplier Under Scrutiny on Aging Arms for Afghans ...ammunition supplied by an American contractor to Afghan forces • As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison • A member of the Iraqi National Police Patrolling in Baghdad seen from a bullet-riddled armored personnel carrier • Relatives carried the coffins of victims of a double bombing in Istanbul • Ethnic Clashes and Bombers Kill 61 in Iraq ...Blast Site by Women • A Spiritual Feast in Iraq for Shiite Pilgrims