FALKLANDS - The Falkland Islands are to be left without the protection of a British warship for the first time since the war with Argentina because the Royal Navy no longer has enough ships to meet all its commitments.
CALIFORNIA - In 23 years, Bruce Hamlin has never seen the car business crash this hard, this fast. Three years ago he was selling 130 cars a month at his Chevy dealership in Southern California. Now, with business down 50 percent, he barely moves 60
USA - In downtown Dallas Friday, new recruits pledged to protect and defend their country. They're just part of a growing number who found that in uncertain times, patriotism pays, CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers reports.
RUSSIA - As companies slash jobs and the ruble looks ready for a crash, Russians are trying to keep cheer by holding "anti-crisis" parties at fancy bars.
TEHRAN - Iran's military test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile from a warship as part of exercises along a strategic shipping route, state media reported on Sunday.
POZNAN, POLAND - Thousands of climate protesters, some dressed as polar bears, devils or penguins, demanded on Saturday swifter action from the United Nations to combat global warming.
MONTGOMERY, USA – For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law.
PAKISTAN - More than 60 lorries supplying Western forces in Afghanistan have been set on fire in a suspected militant attack in north-west Pakistan, police say. Police said at least one person was killed as more than 250 gunmen attacked the terminal near the city of Peshawar using rockets and guns.
UK - Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe should be forced out of office, the Archbishop of York has said. Writing in the Observer newspaper, Dr John Sentamu called for Mr Mugabe and his allies to be overthrown so they could stand trial in The Hague.
UK - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor claims that the rise of secularism has led to a liberal society, hostile to Christian morals and values, in which religious belief is viewed as "a private eccentricity" and the voice of faith groups is marginalised.
USA - President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and tying his key initiatives – education, energy, health care – back to jobs in a package that has the makings of a smaller and modern version of FDR's New Deal marriage of job creation with infrastructure upgrades.
WESTMINSTER - Gordon Brown has urged the world to tell Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "enough is enough" amid growing concern over the country's cholera outbreak. The prime minister said the crisis, which has claimed nearly 600 lives, had become an international emergency.
LONDON - In Hackney, East London, like in many other areas of Britain, a burgeoning underclass of youths - devoid of any sense of right or wrong - exist outside of conventional society's moral boundaries.
UK - They creep around in the dark spreading misery, rumour and secrets from inside Westminster. Even so, paperboys and girls are hardly likely to pose a threat to national security. One local council, however, thought it necessary to use swingeing anti-terror laws against them.
MECCA - Draped in white robes to symbolize purity and the equality of mankind under God, nearly 3 million Muslims from all over the world gathered Friday in Mecca, on the eve of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage.