Los Angeles police found Monday six bodies of a family, victims of an apparent murder-suicide, at a home in San Fernando Valley's Porter Ranch district. Three letters police found at the family's two-story house in the 20600 block of Como Lane indicate that the gunman was 45-year-old financial advisor Karthik Rajaram. He cited financial problems as the reason for killing his family and himself.

A religious leader in Pakistan has issued a fatwa or religious opinion condemning President Asif Ali Zardari for flirting with the U. S. Republican vice presidential candidate during a meeting. The fatwa of cleric Maulana Abdul Ghafar, a prayer leader at radical mosque Lal Masjid in Islamabad, branded as indecent, un-Islamic and unbecoming of a head of state Zardari's gesture to Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) while shaking hands with her at the United Nations headquarters last week.

Stuart Florida attorney Willie Gary and a local hip-hop/R&B radio station sponsored a free gas giveaway Wednesday that attracted 3,000 people and ended in at least four traffic accidents and one arrest. Gary and local radio station X102. 3 made the offer of free gas to the first 102 listeners who made it to a Wal-Mart gas station in Fort Pierce to tank up.

Stuart Florida attorney Willie Gary and a local hip-hop/R&B radio station sponsored a free gas giveaway Wednesday that attracted 3,000 people and ended in at least four traffic accidents and one arrest. Gary and local radio station X102. 3 made the offer of free gas to the first 102 listeners who made it to a Wal-Mart gas station in Fort Pierce to tank up.

Indian authorities have arrested and charged with murder 60 dismissed workers of a car part plant outside New Delhi for bludgeoning to death their employer on Monday. Those arrested were among the 125 former workers who barged into the factory in Greater Noida and beat Lalit Kishore Choudhary, head of Graziano Transmissioni India, with sticks and iron rods after he tried to pacified them. Police said the 47-year-old victim suffered severe blows in the head and bled to death.