DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and Ford say their October sales were better than last year's. GM says sales rose 4.7 percent, while Ford reports a 3 percent increase. Chrysler's numbers, though, are well off, down 30 percent from October 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is looking for his Afghan counterpart to take specific steps to crack down on corruption. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the U.S. embassy in Kabul is working with President Hamid Karzai to improve governance. Karzai won another term yesterday, after his opponent dropped out of the planned runoff election.

CAIRO (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has made an unscheduled trip to Egypt, to discuss the stalemate over resuming Mideast peace talks. She flew to Cairo from Morocco instead of returning to Washington. Comments Clinton made over the weekend raised Arab concerns that the U.S. is dropping its demand that Israel halt construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas.

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Searches of a North Dakota lake and a youth fishing area haven't turned up any sign of three college softball players. The women were last heard from Sunday night, when they called a friend indicating they needed help and saying something about water. The father of one of the women says they often went stargazing at the lake.

UNDATED (AP) — Men may be able to lower their risk of getting the most aggressive form of prostate cancer by keeping their cholesterol in a healthy range. Researchers found men with cholesterol under 200 had less than half the risk of developing high-grade prostate tumors as men with high cholesterol. The report is in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.