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October 08, 2009 08:54 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless insurance fell more-than-expected to a nine-month low last week, data showed, suggesting the labor market was healing despite a setback in September.
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October 08, 2009 08:49 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76, in the latest of a series of militant attacks on diplomatic and government buildings in the capital.
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October 08, 2009 09:16 AM ET
 | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's special peace envoy sought Thursday an "early relaunch" of Israeli-Palestinian talks, but Israel said Washington's goal of comprehensive peace was an illusion.
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October 08, 2009 08:44 AM ET
 | STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - German Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature Thursday.
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October 08, 2009 08:58 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate Finance Committee health plan would cost $829 billion and cut the budget deficit by $81 billion over 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts said on Wednesday in a report that could bolster President Barack Obama's healthcare reform drive.
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October 08, 2009 08:48 AM ET
 | ROME (Reuters) - A combative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed on Thursday to govern with "even more grit" after Italy's top court lifted his immunity and he dismissed corruption charges against him as "laughable."
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October 08, 2009 04:04 AM ET
 | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Poorer countries are helping shape a broader pact to fight climate change but their efforts are being stymied by rich nations' lack of commitment on finance and tougher emissions cuts, the U.N. said on Thursday.
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October 08, 2009 05:22 AM ET
 | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Undersea earthquakes caused panic in the South Pacific on Thursday, sending islanders fleeing to higher ground on fears of a second devastating tsunami in as many weeks, but a series of waves proved to be tiny and harmless.
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October 08, 2009 12:10 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama discusses the U.S. strategy toward Pakistan with his top advisers Wednesday, Pakistan's foreign minister appealed for market access, military technology -- and above all, trust.
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October 07, 2009 06:46 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with the two top Democrats in Congress to discuss ways to spur the economy and reverse a climb in the U.S. unemployment rate, which is now at a 26-year-high.
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Jobless claims hit 9-month low
Quake survivors lacking basic needs.
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