Today's Headlines -- Friday

• Palestinians submit UN statehood bid (AP)
• Global leaders struggle to calm recession fears (AP)
• Yemen president returns, adds confusion to crisis (AP)
• Senate blocks House disaster aid bill (AP)
• Pope meets with German sex abuse victims (AP)
• AP IMPACT: Hospital drug shortages deadly, costly (AP)
• Obama lets states opt out of federal school rules (AP)
• Falling satellite slows down, Earth strike delayed (AP)
• Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet (AP)
• NBA postpones camps, cancels 43 preseason games (AP)
• Europe, under fire, seeks to get ahead of crisis (Reuters)
• Senate delays disaster aid bill until Monday (Reuters)
• Gold slumps to 7-week low (Reuters)
• Abbas stakes Palestinian claim to state at U.N. (Reuters)
• Greece says not seeking new way out of crisis (Reuters)
• Libya NTC to announce "crisis" government in days (Reuters)
• UK lawyer to start News Corp action in U.S. (Reuters)
• G20 pledges bank support, eyes bolder euro fund (Reuters)
• GOP debate: Did Rick Perry survive the attacks of his fellow Republicans? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Why tax code appears to offer deficit 'super committee' rare common ground (The Christian Science Monitor)