AP - Weary firefighters got no rest during the holiday weekend as a pair of out-of-control wildfires roared across the landscape along California's central coast at opposite ends of the arid Los Padres National Forest.

AP - President Bush, serving almost seven years as a wartime president, marked the nation's 232nd birthday by honoring the U.S. armed forces and celebrating the citizenship of new Americans.

Reuters - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the world's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Inc said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion) purchase price.

Reuters - Unionized employees of Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) will walk off the job for four hours next week to push for a pay increase, the auto maker's union said on Saturday.