First Lady, TV Shows, Drawing Attention To Veterans

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michelle Obama has found an unusual ally - reality - in its effort to bring attention to the needs of military families.

The first lady, appearing Sunday on the first season two-part "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", said the program was the right platform for the cause.

"We live in a media age, and one of the things that we always share our love for television," and can tell stories effectively, Obama said. "We thought it was a great place to highlight the difficulties and challenges and triumphs of one family in particular."

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Rick Perry, Republican Mitt Romney Beam In A Presidential Candidate Debate

ORLANDO-Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, entangled as social security, health care and other issues Thursday in a debate in which Republican presidential candidate has sharply criticized the policy of Obama and joined in an attack against the federal government.

Perry, Romney pressed to explain whether he would dismantle Social Security as the federal program and turn around and declares, as proposed. Perry, struggling to keep his program for it, or close to retirement, and connect it to younger employees. He promised to support a limited role in the states to manage security for state employees retire.

"No, Rick Perry, said -. It is almost a quote, it is said that the federal government should have nothing to retire, contrary to the Constitution is unconstitutional and must be returned to the states," Romney said. "So, better to find out that Rick Perry and convince him to stop saying that."

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Palestinians Submit To The State's Offer Of UN

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, the Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member of around nearly two decades of failed negotiations in the hope that dramatic movement on the stage International revitalize their search for an independent homeland.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was greeted with sustained applause and whistles appreciated by the delegations in the General Assembly Hall stated that his people's hopes and dreams of becoming a full member of the United Nations. Some members of the Israeli delegation, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, left the room, and Abbas approached the podium.

In a virulent denunciation of Israel's settlement policy, Abbas said that negotiations with Israel "have no meaning" as long as it continues to build on land the Palestinians claim for this condition. Invoking this would be a nightmare for Israel, was to tell his government could collapse if the construction continues.

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Fed Takes New Direction To Avoid Economic Crisis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Wednesday warned of significant risks to the fragile economy of the United States and launched a new plan to reduce the costs of long-term debt and strengthening the battered housing market.

The Fed said it would sell $ 400 billion of Treasury bills in the short term to buy the same amount of long-term debt of the latest attempt by the U.S. government to revive growth, which slowed to a crawl in the first half of the year.

Apparently frightened by the gloomy economic outlook of the Central Bank, the U.S. stocks have been sold. Standard & Poor's 500 Index closed almost 3 per cent.

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