Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/716 topstories Top Stories en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:36:15 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/716 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20091107/us_health_care_overhaul AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:14:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.753472abed1c4c6191ffe7f981e9b5b3.health_care_overhaul_obama_whre101.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=w4GGnjGpWCQ213n0E35lEQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama is surrounded by security as he leaves the U.S. Capitol after addressing the House Democratic Caucus, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House voted to advance debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.753472abed1c4c6191ffe7f981e9b5b3.health_care_overhaul_obama_whre101.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=w4GGnjGpWCQ213n0E35lEQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama is surrounded by security as he leaves the U.S. Capitol after addressing the House Democratic Caucus, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:29:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting ap/20091107/us_orlando_office_shooting AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:51:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.ea012742658947c6885efb95dbdbee13.orlando_office_shooting_ny131.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Z_hZnUxzjYKySppSi3MK5Q--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="This image made from video provided by Channel 13 News in Orlando, Fla., shows Jason Rodriguez being taken into custody by police officers in Orlando, Fla. Rodriguez, 40, opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing at least one person and injuring five others. (AP Photo/Channel 13 News, cfnews13.com) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.ea012742658947c6885efb95dbdbee13.orlando_office_shooting_ny131.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=Z_hZnUxzjYKySppSi3MK5Q--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="This image made from video provided by Channel 13 News in Orlando, Fla., shows Jason Rodriguez being taken into custody by police officers in Orlando, Fla. Rodriguez, 40, opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing at least one person and injuring five others. (AP Photo/Channel 13 News, cfnews13.com) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers ap/20091107/g20_finance_ministers AP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.b71857aa60a844f8a940a5f40deb333f.britain_g20_finance_ministers_meeting_gcc115.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=qixb7buWS3yvqfFC101vwQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and British Treasury chief Alistair Darling, right, are seen during a group photo session at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Clark)" border="0" /></a>AP - Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_finance_ministers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.b71857aa60a844f8a940a5f40deb333f.britain_g20_finance_ministers_meeting_gcc115.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=qixb7buWS3yvqfFC101vwQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and British Treasury chief Alistair Darling, right, are seen during a group photo session at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Clark)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_jobless_then_and_now ap/20091107/us_jobless_then_and_now AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:36:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_jobless_then_and_now"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a4ef36e70eb34b44a55639161fc52817.jobless_then_and_now_cd401.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4tpJhxT_4E2QRN2uTBJw2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In ths Oct.22, 2009 photo, Vicki Adriano works at the Lordstown General Moters plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Compared with 1982, Americans have more than triple the amount of debt and less than half the savings. Their unemployment spells last 10 weeks longer, on average. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)" border="0" /></a>AP - It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_jobless_then_and_now"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a4ef36e70eb34b44a55639161fc52817.jobless_then_and_now_cd401.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4tpJhxT_4E2QRN2uTBJw2A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In ths Oct.22, 2009 photo, Vicki Adriano works at the Lordstown General Moters plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Compared with 1982, Americans have more than triple the amount of debt and less than half the savings. Their unemployment spells last 10 weeks longer, on average. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan ap/20091107/as_afghanistan AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:18:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.7223a7b84aae40eda5b030f99a7464fe.aptopix_afghanistan_xdg108.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=X8dHVvvnit.zfIqnrVIlpA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A U.S. flag flies half-mast, in honor of the 13 dead and 30 wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army post in central Texas, at an outpost for soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption and warlords.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.7223a7b84aae40eda5b030f99a7464fe.aptopix_afghanistan_xdg108.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=X8dHVvvnit.zfIqnrVIlpA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. flag flies half-mast, in honor of the 13 dead and 30 wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army post in central Texas, at an outpost for soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear ap/20091107/ml_iran_nuclear AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:18:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.e8f9285f221d49fdafad6de38d965d36.russia_medvedev_mosb102.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=qdpaOtFmeYY.lOPPDRu_tg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Medvedev has signaled that Moscow could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.e8f9285f221d49fdafad6de38d965d36.russia_medvedev_mosb102.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=qdpaOtFmeYY.lOPPDRu_tg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Medvedev has signaled that Moscow could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims ap/20091107/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:31:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d7e930d02a464f65a888397775139517.fort_hood_shooting_muslims_txaus101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jMpwCSf6mRR4moaYXQgp8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Muslim Community Center Imam Sheik Mohamed Abdullahi poses for a photo in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The suspected gunman at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, attended the mosque when he lived in the area. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Laura Skelding)" border="0" /></a>AP - As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re/us_rel_fort_hood_shooting_muslims"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d7e930d02a464f65a888397775139517.fort_hood_shooting_muslims_txaus101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=jMpwCSf6mRR4moaYXQgp8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Muslim Community Center Imam Sheik Mohamed Abdullahi poses for a photo in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The suspected gunman at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, attended the mosque when he lived in the area. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Laura Skelding)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas ap/20091107/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas AP entertainment Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d55febb66e7c4cb0988532a027075b34.celebrity_burglaries_ny109.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=M0iTIjksnq9dcx.Fty1ybA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="File - This undated file photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Nicholas Frank Prugo, 18, who has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into the homes of Lindsey Lohan and actress Audrina Patridge. According to a Las Vegas police search warrant obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 Prugo told Los Angeles police detectives that Rachel Jungeon Lee was the 'driving force' behind the break-ins. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A 19-year-old woman was the driving force behind a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d55febb66e7c4cb0988532a027075b34.celebrity_burglaries_ny109.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=M0iTIjksnq9dcx.Fty1ybA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="File - This undated file photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Nicholas Frank Prugo, 18, who has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into the homes of Lindsey Lohan and actress Audrina Patridge. According to a Las Vegas police search warrant obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 Prugo told Los Angeles police detectives that Rachel Jungeon Lee was the 'driving force' behind the break-ins. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_af/af_west_africa_s_last_giraffes ap/20091107/af_west_africa_s_last_giraffes AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:31:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_af/af_west_africa_s_last_giraffes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.5b64a9d8b1fa40379450365f419b90dc.west_africas_last_giraffes_ny332.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bFjUPTcO1Z5VjzyfESrtUQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa's most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts credit to the concurrence of an impoverished government keen for revenue that has enacted laws to protected them, a conservation program that encourages people to support them, and a rare harmony with humans who have accepted their presence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" border="0" /></a>AP - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_af/af_west_africa_s_last_giraffes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.5b64a9d8b1fa40379450365f419b90dc.west_africas_last_giraffes_ny332.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bFjUPTcO1Z5VjzyfESrtUQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa's most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts credit to the concurrence of an impoverished government keen for revenue that has enacted laws to protected them, a conservation program that encourages people to support them, and a rare harmony with humans who have accepted their presence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare nm/20091107/us_usa_healthcare Reuters politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3635266423.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=Ap3eppMzMR9NgANfKzGBIw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A protester holds a sign outside a building where a dialogue on the proposed healthcare reform for ticketed guests is being held in Dallas, Texas August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a broad healthcare reform bill on Saturday as they prepared for a close vote on the biggest changes in health policy in four decades.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3635266423.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=Ap3eppMzMR9NgANfKzGBIw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A protester holds a sign outside a building where a dialogue on the proposed healthcare reform for ticketed guests is being held in Dallas, Texas August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/pl_nm/us_texas_shooting_obama nm/20091107/us_texas_shooting_obama Reuters politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:09:39 GMT Reuters - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will attend a memorial service in Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday for victims of a mass shooting. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_search nm/20091107/us_afghanistan_search Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:06:37 GMT Reuters - NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20 nm/20091107/us_g20 Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:42:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r220737385.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E0qnXwhkuXld7Kx5vE7Hrw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Britain pressed the G20 on Saturday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but one idea of imposing a global financial transactions tax was immediately shot down by the United States.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_g20"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r220737385.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E0qnXwhkuXld7Kx5vE7Hrw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_iran_arrest_police nm/20091107/us_iran_arrest_police Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:30 GMT Reuters - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_honduras_election nm/20091107/us_honduras_election Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_honduras_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3428405488.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=BAHlVlZmDMfdYmlpM2NaIA--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="Porfirio Lobo, presidential candidate of the National Party, arrives to attend the opening of the commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) to oversee the fulfilment of the accords between Honduran de facto government and a representative of the mission of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya, at a hotel in Tegucigalpa November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Henry Romero" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_honduras_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091107/i/r3428405488.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=BAHlVlZmDMfdYmlpM2NaIA--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="photo" title="Porfirio Lobo, presidential candidate of the National Party, arrives to attend the opening of the commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) to oversee the fulfilment of the accords between Honduran de facto government and a representative of the mission of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya, at a hotel in Tegucigalpa November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Henry Romero" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/ts_nm/us_storm_ida nm/20091107/us_storm_ida Reuters topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:35:52 GMT Reuters - Tropical storm Ida regained strength off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday and spun north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it could again become a hurricane. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/ts_nm/us_usa_office_shooting nm/20091106/us_usa_office_shooting Reuters topstories Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:42:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/ts_nm/us_usa_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r2464915758.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=S7PdsXAF6bOD7FvhKvDTxA--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="Shooting suspect Jason Rodriguez is taken into custody by police in Orlando, November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Image courtesy of News 13/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/ts_nm/us_usa_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r2464915758.jpg?x=123&y=130&q=85&sig=S7PdsXAF6bOD7FvhKvDTxA--" align="left" height="130" width="123" alt="photo" title="Shooting suspect Jason Rodriguez is taken into custody by police in Orlando, November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Image courtesy of News 13/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/financeeconomyg20britain afp/20091107/financeeconomyg20britain AFP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/financeeconomyg20britain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257611124546-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mUp8wwsE1vwtmSGdouaL7A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Chancellor Alistair Darling attends a G20 Finance Ministers group photograph outside the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews. G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0" /></a>AFP - G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/wl_afp/financeeconomyg20britain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257611124546-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mUp8wwsE1vwtmSGdouaL7A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chancellor Alistair Darling attends a G20 Finance Ministers group photograph outside the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews. G20 countries committed to work for an "ambitious outcome" at next month's vital UN climate change conference after meeting Saturday, but fell short of agreeing a figure on climate funding.(AFP/Derek Blair)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest afp/20091107/afghanistanunrest AFP topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:15:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257585850820-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sg018aSmh8m38KueoU1.zQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An Afghan army medic soldier looks out from an ambulance in Kabul. Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest of the country, the defence ministry said Saturday.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest of the country, the defence ministry said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257585850820-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sg018aSmh8m38KueoU1.zQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Afghan army medic soldier looks out from an ambulance in Kabul. Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest of the country, the defence ministry said Saturday.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)