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The news follows an announcement on Friday that the German automaker, rocked by an emissions testing scandal, had appointed a new CEO.

It was only after the freezer had been cleaned, that grandma warned her relations about the money she kept in it. The trash company picked through a truck-full of garbage and returned $25,000.

The bicyclist in front of the two leaders at the Quad Cities Marathon went straight instead of turning — veering them off course. But it steered Tyler Pence to a $3,000 first place prize.

When Carol Allison was six, she opened a bank account in Scotland with her grandmother and then forgot about. Allison, who is now 74, was cleaning her house recently and found the bank book.

An overproduction of grapes in California and Europe, and a falling demand for expensive wine, have given way to tumbling wine prices. Michele Norris talks with Linda Murphy, who writes the weekly "Bargain Wine" column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Murphy says there are deals to be had.

President Bush makes a surprise visit to Baghdad to visit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president told the new leader and his Cabinet that the future of Iraq is in its citizens' hands, and that it's in the interest of the United States that the mission in Iraq succeeds.

Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford says the automaker will cut up to 30,000 North American jobs by 2012. The moves are part of a restructuring plan that will see a number of manufacturing plants close, as well.

The strongest earthquake in 40 years hit Southeast Asia Sunday morning, setting off tsunamis that killed thousands. Measured at 8.9, the earthquake is the most powerful recorded since a 9.2 quake hit Alaska in 1964.

Marianne Faithfull recently released her album Easy Come, Easy Go. In 2005, Faithfull talked with Terry Gross about her early career, her struggle with drugs, and her evolution as an artist.

The handwritten letter, dated June 2001, was written by a six-year-old girl named Anna, on a family vacation in the Bahamas. The message, written in crayon, read: "Please don't pollute. Thank you."