Bottom Line: Leaders around the world want Europe to get its financial house in order amid worries that the region’s growing debt crisis will weaken one of the world’s largest markets for imported goods.

The family of an African-American man who died after a group of white teens beat him and one allegedly ran him over with a truck is asking state and federal officials not to seek the death penalty in the case.

An Arizona judge on Wednesday refused to grant a new trial for self-help guru James Arthur Ray in the deaths of three participants in a 2009 sweat lodge ritual.

A man who opened fire at an Arkansas courthouse Tuesday, injuring one person, was shot and killed by police, according to authorities and CNN affiliate KFSM.

A man accused of strapping a fake bomb around an 18-year-old Australian girl’s neck in an attempt to extort money from her family is scheduled to appear at an extradition hearing Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors said.

Ten years after the nation was unified in horror, President Obama honored the legacy of Sept. 11 victims by tracing the trail of the terrorist attacks, declaring the decade since has proven “America does not give in to fear.”

For the first time in ten years, the Sept. 11 sun rose in New York City over a permanent memorial to the victims of 9/11, and in Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., thousands paid tribute. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (Nightly News)

The Obama administration is taking serious the still unconfirmed intelligence tip of a possible al-Qaida plot tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.

Nick Folk kicked a 50-yard field goal with 27 seconds left, giving the New York Jets a 27-24 comeback victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the final game of the NFL’s first full Sunday with the commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an emotional backdrop.

Dr. Conrad Murray never considered a plea deal to resolve the involuntary manslaughter charge against him in the death of Michael Jackson, his lawyer said. “Plea bargains are for guilty people,” lawyer Ed Chernoff said.