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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” , May 4, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: There are new developments in the so-called “Craigslist Killer” case. Medical student Philip Markoff is already charged with …

BAGHDAD – Iraq should launch an anti-corruption campaign that would match the fight it has waged against insurgents and militias, the country’s prime minister said Saturday amid increasing complaints over criminality in the government. Nouri al-Maliki told representatives of the powerful northern Shammar tribe that bureaucrats stealing public money are …

LUCKNOW, India – Nearly 100 human skulls and other skeletal remains were discovered in a dried-up pond in northern India, officials said Monday. The remains likely belonged to people whom police could not identify and were dumped there to avoid having to organize cremations. The grisly discovery was made by …

Many Americans who live in Gulf and Atlantic Coast states are not prepared for an active 2009 hurricane season, despite being slammed last year, a new Mason-Dixon poll found. More than half those surveyed, 66 percent, said they don’t have a hurricane survival kit and 62 percent said they don’t …

ROME – Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s second wife has for years lived a very separate life from her billionaire husband, rarely participating in his official events or travels. On Sunday, she confirmed she was seeking a divorce, citing his reported flirtations with younger women. After 19 years of marriage and three …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Two New Zealanders whose bank mistakenly deposited $6.1 million dollars into their account took some of the money and ran, police said. Authorities launched an international search for the couple, who operated a gas station in the northern city of Rotorua, and the Westpac Bank said …

CHA-AM, Thailand – Thailand has mounted one of its biggest security operations in recent history with more than 36,000 military and police to prevent anti-government demonstrators from overrunning a summit of Asian leaders, an official spokesman said Thursday. The government is still smarting from the storming of the East Asian …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s parliament on Monday moved ahead with a bill to sharply slash energy and food subsidies, approving one article of a draft law that has the potential of stoking major unrest in a country struggling under international sanctions. State radio said the article approved by lawmakers would …

COPENHAGEN – A few pen strokes thrust Kurt Westergaard into the midst of an international crisis, exposing him to death threats and an alleged assassination plot. Terror charges brought against two Chicago men this week show the 74-year-old Dane remains a potential target for extremists, four years after he drew …

JAIPUR, India – A huge fire at an Indian oil depot that has killed at least six people and injured 150 will be allowed to burn out as firefighters have little hope of dousing it, officials said Friday. Another six people are trapped in the depot near the city of …