RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll in Rawalpindi, the garrison city just a few miles from Pakistan's capital, has risen to 35. A suicide bomber struck outside a bank near the army's headquarters. Meanwhile, the U.N. it's starting to pull out some foreign staffers and suspending its long-term development work along the Afghan border because of the spreading violence.

KABUL (AP) — President Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of Afghanistan's fraud-laced presidential election. Afghanistan's election commission announced the decision after Karzai's chief opponent withdrew. Saturday's runoff election has been canceled.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon audit is taking to task the Army's primary support contractor in Iraq for its spending. Auditors have told Houston-based KBR Inc. to cut its work force there or face nearly $200 million in penalties. KBR is responsible for everything from mail and laundry to housing and meals.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will get a view from outside the administration today when he meets with his economic advisory board. The meeting with the 16-member advisory board headed by former Fed chief Paul Volcker follows word of a surprisingly strong third-quarter growth spurt, though jobs are still a problem.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney has branded the Obama administration's economic stimulus package a failure. Appearing on CBS's "The Early Show," Romney says the time has come to stop the program. Romney says the economy seems to be picking up because the "private sector" has regained its equilibrium on its own.