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More than 30 letters containing a suspicious powder were mailed to Chase bank branches and federal banking regulators' offices in nine cities in what was being investigated as a first public backlash over the nation's financial crisis.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson lays out steps to shore up the nation's banking system by having the government buy shares in leading banks, something he 'regrets' doing but says is necessary for the health of the economy.

The Treasury Department is set to buy stakes in many U.S. banks in an effort to help thaw out the credit freeze. Thalia Assuras reports.

As the global financial crisis claimed more victims last week on Wall Street, the rest of the world's markets and banks have been in turmoil. Forty-five thousand banking jobs are in jeopardy in Britain alone. From London, VOA's Mandy Clark looks at the global financial fallout of the American credit crunch.

Lehman Brothers - one of the biggest and once one of the most powerful investment banks - has gone into administration. Sky's Joel Hills reports.