NEW DELHI - WHEN gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.

Blogs and social networking sites like Twitter and Flickr buzzed with eyewitness accounts from India's financial capital, providing some of the first photos of the besieged targets and serving as a forum for pleas for updates on friends and family.

ATLANTA - ABOUT one in 10 US doctors who vaccinate privately insured children are considering dropping that service largely because they are losing money when they do it, according to a new survey.

CHICAGO - MORE than half a million US children have autism with costly health care needs that often put an unprecedented financial strain on their families, national data show.