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1. In a speech in New York Monday, President Barack Obama says he sees new signs of the kind of high-risk business behaviour that nearly caused a financial meltdown a year ago. He's warning Wall Street there won't be another bailout. Obama also said he feels confident that the country's financial system has been steadied.

 2. A stampede in Pakistan has killed at least 18 women and girls. They were in a crowd waiting for handouts¹ of flour in Karachi. Witnesses say hundreds of women had jammed into a small building, and some panicked in narrow passageways.

 3. Bond has been set at 30 million dollars for the man accused of kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. A judge set that bond for Phillip Garrido during a hearing Monday in Northern California. He and his wife Nancy have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, rape² and false imprisonment³.

 4. Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair his dislocated right wrist. Urlacher hurt the wrist in the first half of Chicago's opening night loss to the Green Bay Packers.