Rescue bill moves to House...Asian markets react...Poll: Obama 48, McCain 41

Washington (AP) The 700-billion-dollar financial industry rescue plan has been approved by the Senate. The final vote was 74-25, with 39 Democrats, 34 Republicans and independent Joe Lieberman voting "yes." Nine Democrats, 15 Republicans and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont voting "no." A vote in the House is next.

TOKYO (AP) Asian stock markets are retreating as broader concerns about a global economic slowdown outweigh any relief over the U.S. Senate's passage of the financial industry rescue package.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei lost 1.1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slipped 0.9 percent.

WASHINGTON (AP) A new poll suggests that Barack Obama has surged to a seven-point lead over John McCain one month before the presidential election. According to an Associated Press-GfK survey, likely voters now back Obama 48-41 percent over McCain.

WASHINGTON (AP) The man who once headed the U.S.

weapons-hunting team in Iraq says Iran is two to five years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon. David Kay, who led the Iraq Survey Group, says the U.S. shouldn't consider bombing Iranian nuclear facilities unless the weapon is about to be transferred to a terrorist group.

UNDATED (AP) In Britain, a large and rigorous test of computer-aided detection has found that a computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram. Computer-aided detection, or CAD, was developed to help radiologists pick up more cancers.

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