REYKJAVIK/LONDON (Reuters) - Iceland sought an emergency bailout from Russia on Tuesday and the Russians unveiled an aid package for their own banks in the latest piecemeal responses to the global financial crisis.
UK banks in government funding talks as crisis grips
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and its banks will hold more urgent talks over a possible multi-billion pound injection of public money into the sector over coming days, an industry source said as the financial crisis tightened its grip.
Two Japanese and American win physics Nobel
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday.
Australia rate cut stuns, markets thirst for more
SYDNEY/TOKYO (Reuters) - Australia stunned markets with its steepest interest cut in 16 years Tuesday and investors expected that other central banks would follow suit in a coordinated move to combat the global credit crisis.
Palin warns Florida voters of "rough" campaigning
CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid.