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• Retailers Face an Ominous Holiday Sign
  Sales of women’s clothing, a traditional pillar of the holiday shopping season, are unusually weak so far this year, according to a major credit card company.
• Free Trade Zones Ease Passage of Counterfeit Drugs
  Counterfeiters use free trade zones to hide a drug’s provenance, or to make, market or relabel adulterated products, according to anticounterfeiting experts.
• The Nation: For Republicans, Falling in Love Is Hard to Do
  It is hard to think of another campaign when Republican voters have seemed less excited about their choices.
• Putin Opens Mecca Path For Muslims
  Moved by internal politics and Saudi ties, tens of thousands of Russian Muslims traveled to Saudi Arabia to join the masses in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site.
• Old U.S. Allies, Still Hiding Deep in Laos
  Thousands of jungle warriors hired by the C.I.A. to fight Communists during the Vietnam War are living in fear of the Laotian government.
• Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
  The growing confrontation promises to be an epic battle that shapes the prosperity and progress of both companies.
• Pakistan Says Terrorism Suspect Has Escaped
  A man who was arrested in Pakistan last year on suspicion of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airplanes, and who faced extradition to Britain in another case, escaped from his guards Saturday after a court hearing here, officials said Sunday.
• Snowstorms Delay Air Travel
  Snow overnight gave way to rain on Sunday in the New York City area, even as much of the Northeast was hit by snowstorms that delayed air travel and caused traffic accidents.
• Michigan Hires Rodriguez as Coach
  Michigan has hired West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez as its next football coach, ending a nearly month long search in which two other candidates withdrew from consideration for the job.
• Afghan Mission Is Reviewed as Concerns Rise
  Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews.
• Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
  The Bush administration is working to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies that aid the N.S.A.’s warrantless eavesdropping program.