| Finland's ex-president wins Nobel Peace Prize | | Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Friday amid controversy. |
| Paulson: U.S. plans to buy financial equity | | Paulson said the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial institutions and to implement the new rescue package more 'swiftly and thoughtfully'. |
| Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spaceship prepared for launch | | A Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is set on its launch pad on the Baikonur cosmodrome Oct. 10, 2008. |
| Bush: U.S. authority able to solve financial crisis | | "We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal ... We can solve this crisis and we will," Bush said. |
| G-7 plans to fight global financial crisis | | Finance officials from the Group of Seven announced Friday a plan of action to battle the ongoing global financial crisis. |