News sources report that a long-planned offering of a portion of the U.S. Treasury's equity interest in giant insurance company American International Group may be indefinitely postponed because the price of AIG stock has fallen to near the Treasury's break-even point. (Reuters)
Plans are cancelled to install prismatic glass on the bottom base of One World Trade Center due to technical problems.
Thousands of asylum seekers from Ethiopia and Somalia are stranded in camps in northern Mozambique after measures adopted by the government to restrict their movements. (IRIN)