AFP - Even Roger Federer had to say he was sorry for the way he won the pivotal second-set tie-breaker over pal Jurgen Melzer and advanced to the US Open quarter-finals on Monday.

AP - Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author.

AP - Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe — a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman's own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.

AP - Despite the struggling economy, officials with the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon say contributions and pledges from this year's Labor Day event totaled $58.9 million.

The Atlantic Wire - When Mark Hurd was fired as CEO of Hewlett-Packard following a mysterious
sexual harassment complaint, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison slammed HP's
board of directors saying they "just made the worst personnel decision
since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs." Now Ellison is
putting his money where his mouth is, hiring Hurd as Oracle's
co-president. "Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he'll do even
better at Oracle," Ellison said in a statement announcing the hire.
Intriguingly, Oracle is looking to compete in the same space as HP. Will
Hurd exact revenge on his former bosses?

AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has the backing of Washington and US arch-foe Iran to keep his job, six months after he narrowly lost an election to ex-premier Iyad Allawi, politicians said Tuesday.

AFP - A Malaysian rapper is being investigated for sedition, police said Monday, after posting a YouTube video which drew allegations he was stirring up ethnic tensions in the multicultural nation.

AP - Seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens arrived at the courthouse nearly four hours early for a hearing to face charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone.

Reuters - BHP Billiton, denied on Monday that it had plans to sell off some of Potash Corp's assets if it succeeded in its $38.6 billion hostile bid for the world's largest fertilizer producer.

AFP - The United States on Sunday condemned as "deeply offensive" remarks by an influential Israeli rabbi who said he hoped Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would "vanish from our world."

Reuters - President Barack Obama will make a statement on the economy at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) Monday in the White House Rose Garden, the White House said.

AP - Authorities at Bangkok's international airport found a baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden alongside a stuffed toy tiger in the suitcase of a woman flying from Thailand to Iran, an official and a wildlife protection group said Friday.