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BBC News with Marian Marshall.

Politicians in Washington are coming under pressure to salvage the US government's multi-billion-dollar rescue plan for the American financial sector. Changes are reported to be under consideration to the bail-out package rejected in Congress on Monday. The two top Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, have written to President Bush, saying they are confident of getting a bill approved soon, with Republican backing. Speaking at the Senate, Mr. Reid said he would do everything he could to avert a crisis.

"We are all committed to keeping the progress on this rescue package moving forward, so in the coming days, I'll continue doing everything possible to see this dire and avoidable financial crisis through to the best possible outcome and towards a future of stability and growth for our country."

Shares on the New York stock market recovered during the day. Our North American business correspondent, Gred Wood, reports.

First, we had the steepest decline in share prices for 20 years, then 24 hours later, much of that lost ground regained. Sometimes this market defies analysis. The reason given for the bounce revived hopes that the bail-out plan for the banks will be approved by Congress, though quite well how it came from was hard to tell. The US authorities are also looking to increase the level of customers’ deposits, which are guaranteed in the event of bank failure, and that held banking stocks to rise.

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has blamed irresponsibility in the United States for the current global financial crisis. He told the BBC the problems had begun in America, and what was needed was global supervision of the financial system. He said he was confident Britain would come through the difficulties successfully.

A landmark nuclear deal has been signed between India and France. The agreement paves the way for French companies to sell advanced nuclear reactors to India for generating electricity. Andy Gallagher Embarason from our South Asia desk has more details.

France is the first country to open nuclear trade with India after the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group lifted the restrictions on such deals earlier this month. The move has ended India's long isolation from the nuclear mainstream. India says it needs nuclear power to meet its fast-growing energy demands. But not everyone in India is convinced with the present deal. Opponents say it limits India's options to test nuclear weapons in the future. A similar nuclear agreement between the United States and India is currently awaiting approval by the US Senate.

Pakistani intelligence officials say an unmanned American aircraft has fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, killing at least four people. Unconfirmed reports say the missiles were launched from the drone after shots were fired at it, and the dead included foreign militants. The attack happened in North Waziristan, a known haunt of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.

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Spanish coast guards have rescued about 230 African migrants in an open boat off the coast of the Canary Islands. It's thought to be the biggest single boat load of African migrants to reach Spanish territory. The vessel was spotted by a rescue plane 80 kilometers offshore. Spanish officials believe the migrants spent four days at sea.

A group of retired Gurkha soldiers from Nepal who were refused permission to live permanently in Britain have won the right to have their cases reviewed. The ruling affects some 2,000 Gurkhas who retired from the British Army before 1997. The government said they didn't qualify to settle here, because they lacked strong ties with Britain. The Gurkhas argued that they had a special right by virtue of serving in the British Armed Forces.

Efforts are underway to guarantee European Union monitors unrestricted access to those parts of Georgia which Russian troops are due to start withdrawing from on Wednesday. A Russian military spokesman has said the monitors weren't be able to enter the security zone that Russia has declared around South Ossetia, the separatist region, which was the focus of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia.

The American space agency NASA says its Phoenix Lander has discovered snow falling from clouds on the planet Mars. Scientists say snowflakes were detected three kilometers above Phoenix's landing site in the Martian North Pole. Rajesh Mirchandani reports on the latest discovery from the red planet.

It's snowing on Mars, or at least, it has been nearby. A laser on board the Phoenix Mars Lander detected snow falling from clouds more than three kilometers above the planet's surface. The snow disappeared before reaching the ground, that means this discovery does not itself fulfill the probe's basic mission to find evidence on Mars of liquid water -- a basic ingredient for life. The Phoenix probe landed on Mars in May to examine if the planet ever supported life and could do so again.