National and International News-Monday, Sept. 25th

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liquids and gels may be allowed back on airliners -- if they're bought at the airport. A Homeland Security Department source says materials purchased in secure airport areas will be allowed. They had been banned because of a foiled plot to bomb jets flying into the United States.

NEW YORK (AP) - The status of Osama bin Laden is a mystery as far as the president of Pakistan is concerned. Pervez Musharraf tells N-B-C's "Today" show he has no information about a French newspaper report that bin Laden is dead. Musharraf says bin Laden's capture is still a high priority.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) - Iraq's ambassador to the Holy See says Pope Benedict's expression of "profound respect" should end the anger over the pontiff's remarks on Islam and violence. Benedict today met with Muslim envoys from 21 countries in an effort to blunt the anger triggered by a speech in Germany.

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush is stumping for G-O-P candidates in Connecticut and Ohio, and talking up the economy at a Cincinnati tool-maker today. Back in Washington, Democrats are jumping on an intelligence assessment that they say proves they've been right to question the Iraq war all along.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Twenty-four-year-old Tiffany Hall may be arraigned today in St. Clair County, Illinois, on charges she killed a pregnant acquaintance and her fetus. Preliminary
autopsies show that three of the victim's other children were drowned. Hall hasn't been charged in their deaths.