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Iraqis are looking forward to Sunday's elections, but some fear possible chaos. The vote is Iraq's second nationwide election and comes at a vastly different time than the first in 2005. U.S. troops have all but vanished from streets, but attacks continue, and militants have threatened to target voters.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon heads toward the heavily damaged Chilean city of Concepcion. Firefighters showed him a 15-story apartment building that had split and collapsed, killing nine people. Ban says the international community will provide field hospitals, temporary bridges and other aid.
President Barack Obama is turning up the heat for health care overhaul again, using his weekly radio and Internet address to try to convince a skeptical public of the need for his plan. He blocked Republicans’calls to start from scratch.
Hundreds of sled dogs and thousands of fans lined up along Anchorage's Fourth Avenue for the ceremonial start to the 1100-mile Iditarod Dog Race. The actual competition starts on Sunday.
Myra Lopez, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
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