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President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's main opposition party have been working on a political power-sharing arrangement for months. An emergency regional summit aimed at ending a deadlock has been postponed until next week. It was supposed to be held earlier, but main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai refused to attend.

After 14 years in power, the African National Congress no longer cuts a youthful figure on the nation's political landscape, and young people say the party has let itself go. "The ANC came with a lot of promises and all the promises were never delivered," one 35-year-old says.

When a new administration takes over in January, it will face challenging and overlapping problems in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, two countries that are critical to U.S. national security. The conflict in Afghanistan, once called "the forgotten war," has been escalating in recent months.

When the economy goes south, consumers face conflicting messages. Do they do what's good for the economy (spend) or what's good for their bank accounts (save)? That's especially challenging for Americans, whose household savings rate has been near 0 percent for the last three years.

The government's drastic economic rescue efforts will eventually pay off, President Bush insisted, offering calming words to anxious Americans but no suggestion of a quick revival as Wall Street braced for another wild day. Home construction fell to the slowest pace since early 1991.

Proposition B, the plan to build a Stadium or Convention Center expansion on top of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, is meeting heavy opposition.KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

SDLFF Audience Winner El Brindis returns for a week-long engagement (Agosin Films)

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The Acorn Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

The final debate of the 2008 campaign featured some of the sharpest exchanges to date between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. The two traded blows over everything from economic and health care policies to who is responsible for the negative tone of the campaign.