<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/financial_meltdown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_20t181145_450x302_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=1wwGgu4AA7ubdDVSt9voJA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.345d6f1c3d294acc9b999e0e68f70734.wall_street_nyrd117.jpg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=nZMzuMrsDIv5tJeYdBENhg--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="Specialists consult a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to a ranges not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and as demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wall Street is experiencing some relief, with stocks opening sharply higher, following a report that a pounded-down Citigroup Inc. might put itself up for sale.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/mukasey_collapses"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20081121/i/ra1619888627.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=gmlA7utIbZAUYvxTTJJvwQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this July 21, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts" border="0" /></a>AP - Attorney General Michael Mukasey was feeling better Friday after collapsing during a speech, his spokeswoman said.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.6369dd4320c74b6ebd88ed195ff1ac3d.iraq_protest_bag101.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=yTIaVe5DhLLICz_riKlb1g--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)" border="0" /></a>AP - Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_bi_ge/piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.dacdc4c2181741b3815c44a04eafe41d.mideast_egypt_piracy_arabs_cai101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=3TuKzAmnY7ejbuHW2Xj_zg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Local women sit on the banks of the Suez canal as a Suez Canal Authority pilot boat passes by in Ismailia, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Major shipping companies said that they are considering other options including avoiding the passage through the Suez Canal to avoid having to go through the Gulf of Aden due to increasing piracy risks - meaning longer, costlier trips around the southern tip of Africa. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_stores_chief_executive"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.4c93c1029b4a4bd2afaced6f8d82e8b5.walmart_ceo_nybz188.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=pmHgMn_v.ESBzIf8JLshZg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="In this June 1, 2007 file photo, of Vice Chairman Michael Duke during the annual Wal-Mart shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Ark. Wal-Mart Stores' board elects Duke, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, to succeed Lee Scott as president and CEO effective Feb. 1. (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, unexpectedly announced Friday its chief executive will retire in February and be replaced by the head of its international division, Mike Duke.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_us/meltdown_charity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081119/capt.2d65571da40a4311a451ee041de6535f.meltdown_charity_waet201.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Sx1ARpJ.o8HuHQ5u2YkQTQ--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Dino Degracia, left, is told by a volunteer that his limit of canned goods is three as he collects food next to another client, Mark Hatfield, at a food bank operated by Northwest Harvest Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, in Seattle. As more strapped Americans rely on charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other charities are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)" border="0" /></a>AP - As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give.</p><br clear="all"/>

AP - Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video that shocked some viewers captured what was happening in the background.

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_en_mu/eu_britain_people_madonna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.07b5aedc88fd4f019a63c31c4d8f04e0.eu_britain_people_madonna_nyet704.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=KfBJtD3LT8R.kKjUtGJcwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="In this Dec. 2, 2007 file photo, director Guy Ritchie and his wife Madonna attend a special screening of 'Revolver' in New York. A court schedule says Madonna and Guy Ritchie will be granted the first stage of their divorce in London Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. London's High Court lists 'Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S' as one of 16 cases listed for 'matrimonial and civil partnership causes for pronouncement of decree.' (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.</p><br clear="all"/>

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_fe_st/odd_library_toilet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.2020cc15202d48e28a685363fc04d97c.odd_library_toilet_mr101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1hTbfWAV_fGsG9g9BsI9Lg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Librarian Susan D'Amico stands in the doorway of the bathroom at the Roxbury Free Library in Roxbury, Vt., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. For decades, when you had to go at the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go -- somewhere else, that is. The one-room clapboard building had no restrooms. When nature called, patrons either had to hold it, walk next door to the Roxbury Union Congregational Church or go home. No more: a toilet was finally installed last Friday. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)" border="0" /></a>AP - When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go — somewhere else, that is.</p><br clear="all"/>