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Thirty people convicted of drug and other criminal charges will be hanged on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday.

Australian air safety experts are investigating the emergency landing of a Qantas Boeing 747 in the Philippines after a hole in the fuselage made the plane lose cabin pressure. Officials from two U.S. transportation agencies said initial findings indicate there was no act of terrorism involved.

Sen. Barack Obama met today with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other officials in London, England, the final stop of an international tour. The trip has taken Obama to the Middle East and Europe in an effort to bolster the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's foreign policy credentials.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a landmark housing bill today that will offer up to $300 billion in loans for troubled homeowners and establish a government rescue plan for mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

As many as 2 million borrowers may be eligible for some kind of help as part of the housing rescue bill passed Saturday by the Senate and expected be signed next week by President Bush, and CNNMoney.com explains what homeowners need to know.

Gas prices declined for the ninth straight day, falling below $4 a gallon for the first time in seven weeks, according to a nationwide survey by motorist group AAA. Average gasoline prices first crossed the $4 mark on June 7 when they hit $4.005 a gallon.

Six people have been killed and 52 wounded since Thursday night in battles between pro- and anti-government forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security forces told CNN.

Mrs. Allen had it all.

Authorities evacuated more than 2,000 European vacationers Friday from a strip of holiday resorts on the Greek island of Rhodes on Friday as fierce forest fires swept through the island. It marks the fourth straight day of fires that have scorched at least 7,400 acres.

Only Mexican-grown jalapeños and serrano peppers have been linked to the salmonella outbreak, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

French police arrested two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, just days after Spanish Civil Guards arrested nine suspects, Spain's Interior Ministry said, according to CNN partner station CNN Plus.

Passengers described hearing a loud noise before their plane was forced to make an emergency landing with a gaping hole in its side. The pilot of the Qantas flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne, Australia, said an initial investigation showed there was an "explosive decompression," according to a report by officials at the Manila airport where the plane landed. Images of the plane showed a gash, about 9 feet long, where the wing attaches to the body of the jet.

America's allies in Europe are crucial to the success of anti-terror efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and in helping solve economic problems at home, Sen. Barack Obama told CNN on Friday.

A few months ago, the U.S. Army granted 2nd Lt. Caleb Campbell, who had been taken by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the NFL draft, permission to pursue his dream of becoming a professional football player. No more. Now, in a time of war, the Pentagon says duty should come before athletic glory for officers graduating from military academies.

Sen. John McCain says that as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial. "The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The Nuremberg Trials meted out justice to Nazi criminals after World War II.

Two fuel barges were cleared Friday to enter Mississippi River waters that have been off-limits since a massive oil spill from a barge that collided with a tanker, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said.

At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.

Professor Randy Pausch was told he had terminal cancer and had just months to live. So he turned his final lecture at Carnegie Mellon University into a lesson on life. The speech became an internet sensation and sparked a best-selling book. He survived long past his doctor's expectations and became an inspiration to millions. Pausch died today.

A team of experts gathered Friday on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to decide how to deal with marauding bears that reportedly have killed two people recently.

Timothy Davis, a 21-year-old who makes just above the minimum wage, chose to live on his own three months ago. He almost immediately regretted it.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence this week, allowing his ruling party to keep in play a proposed nuclear partnership with the United States.

A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's reliance on foreign oil.

Lincoln Industries looks like a typical blue-collar plant -- workers cutting, bending, plating and polishing steel for products such as motorcycle tailpipes and truck exhausts amid the din of machinery.

Sen. John McCain has not settled on a running mate and the timing of any announcement has not been determined, a senior McCain source told CNN.

President Bush signed an executive order Friday expanding U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, the White House said.

Congress is locked in a partisan dispute over energy legislation that has produced plenty of combustible debate but is unlikely to produce a bill to help lower gas prices anytime soon.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but producer Judd Apatow has another hit comedy on his hands. This time it's "Step Brothers," an astute no-brainer that's also Will Ferrell's funniest effort since "Talladega Nights."

Donna and David Sloat of California love to travel. So when they received a postcard in the mail that claimed they could get 50 percent off the price of cruises and 75 percent off condo vacations, the couple was intrigued.