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Officials are restarting the airlift out of Haiti carrying injured earthquake victims, the White House said Sunday.

Reuters – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Sunday urged the United States, Britain and other countries to cooperate on new policies and regulations in the wake of the financial crisis.

Reuters – The economic recovery is suddenly looking more robust. If it is going to stay that way, the labor market will need to catch up soon.

Ten Americans will appear in a Haitian courtroom Monday — they’re accused of trying to take almost three dozen children across the border to the Dominican Republic. NPR’s Mandalit del Barco updates host Guy Raz about that incident and about the latest news about food distribution in the quake-ravaged nation.

A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti.

In the weeks following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, thousands of children have been orphaned or separated from their parents. Haitian government officials have suspended all international adoptions amid fears of child trafficking. Saturday, members of two Baptist churches in Idaho were detained after trying to gather a number of orphans.

From the State of the Union to a familiar diplomatic clash between the U.S. and China, host Guy Raz digs into the week’s big stories with news analyst James Fallows from The Atlantic magazine.

Military planes have been flying some wounded earthquake victims to be treated in U.S. hospitals, but that practice has stopped for now because states have raised questions about the cost of such care.

AP – Regulators shut down a big bank in California on Friday, along with two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Minnesota and Washington. That brought to 15 the number of bank failures so far in 2010 atop the 140 shuttered last year in the punishing economic climate.

AP – Argentina’s Central Bank chief resigned Friday, saying he could do no more to protect the nominally independent institution from the president’s efforts to control its dollar reserves.