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ABC News -
From the titans of high technology to teenagers armed with iPads, millions of people around the world mourned digital-gadget genius Steve Jobs as a man whose wizardry transformed their lives in big ways and small.
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Reuters -
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, ...
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Senate Democrats, divided over how to pay for President Obama's jobs plan, Wednesday tossed out the White House tax proposals and replaced them with one of their own: a tax increase on millionaires.
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Telegraph.co.uk -
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who were both cleared of the murder of Meridith Kercher on Monday could be reunited after Knox's family invited him to stay in the US.
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ESPN -
PHOENIX -- Arizona third baseman Ryan Roberts insists he didn't want to do anything crazy. He wasn't trying to catapult 38000 Diamondbacks fans out of their seats.
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Politico -
Sarah Palin's decision not to run for president was met mostly with yawns among members of her own party. Except for her dedicated cadre of supporters, few Republicans thought she would actually make the race.
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The Press Association -
A group of military defectors known as the Free Syrian Army have said they plan to overthrow President Bashar Assad's "murderous" regime.
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Indian Express -
Pakistan cannot have a veto over the right of Afghan government to have relationship with India, former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal has said, making it clear that New Delhi has no interest in getting involved in military situation in the war-torn ...
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Telegraph.co.uk -
Governments in the West may have read with alarm that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wanted to build a Eurasian Union out of the former Soviet bloc but in Kazakhstan the news was welcomed.
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CBS News -
(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of people marched through the streets of the Afghan capital on Thursday, demanding the immediate withdrawal of international military forces ahead of the 10th anniversary of the US invasion.
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Boston Globe -
Nurse Margret Sweeney, center, and others join Occupy Wall Street during a march in Lower Manhattan Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 in New York.
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CBS News -
This undated photo provided Wednesday Oct. 5, 2011 by the City of Cupertino, Calif., shows Shareef Allman. Schools were on lockdown or closed in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino as SWAT teams sought Allman, who authorities say killed two and ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution -
Whether all of America has become captivated by the Georgia native is unclear, but it is increasingly obvious that a good chunk of the Republican electorate is.
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Chicago Tribune -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, once described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South, died Wednesday at age 89.
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Kansas City Star -
WASHINGTON | Two top supervisors at the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - the deputy director and the assistant director for field operations - were reassigned as the beleaguered agency ...
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Bloomberg -
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Antonio Borges, head of the International Monetary Fund's European department, discusses the outlook for the euro-zone economy and the sovereign debt crisis.
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Bloomberg -
S&P's GSCI Index of commodities gained 0.4 percent, as copper jumped 2.2 percent. Photographer: Kevin Lee/Bloomberg South Korea's won rose to this week's high of 1181.40 per dollar.
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Washington Post -
View Photo Gallery - A wide range of consumer analysts are tempering expectations for the holiday season, meaning shoppers like the ones seen here will not provide the jolt the economy needs to get back on track.
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Reuters -
LONDON Oct 6 (Reuters) - World stocks rose for a second day on Thursday while government bonds fell as expectations grew policymakers would take steps to support European banks, under threat from the impact of a possible Greek default.
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Telegraph.co.uk -
Such is Apple's success at creating products that are well designed, easy to use and, above all, desirable, that the anticipation surrounding its announcements is now huge.
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PC Magazine -
Many are dimissing the iPhone 4S as Apple's most underwhelming product launch in a long time. Could the company have managed expectations better?
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Seattle Post Intelligencer -
Deputy District Attorney David Walgren holds a bottle of propofol found by Los Angeles County coroner investigator Elissa Fleak (not pictured) during her testimony at Dr.
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Daily Beast -
A money dispute between Fox and the actors who voice the characters on The Simpsons may force the long-running hit series to shut down next spring.
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Boston Globe -
AP Sports Writer / October 6, 2011 ST. LOUIS—David Freese joked that he probably had accumulated 20 strikeouts against various Phillies aces.
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San Francisco Chronicle -
NEW YORK -- NBA owners, losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, wanted an overhaul of the financial system to ensure themselves a chance to profit.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution -
AP SAN MARTIN, Calif. - No matter how Tiger Woods plays in the Frys.com Open, it won't be from a lack of practice. Caddie Joe LaCava leads his golfer Tiger Woods, at right, and Wood's swing coach Sean Foley, at left, during the pro-am ...
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Detroit Free Press -
There was little dread on the players' expressions in the aftermath of a wild celebration party abruptly canceled. You'd think a 10-1 horsewhipping would leave some residual scarring, but the Tigers pretty much put Game 4 behind them ...
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DesMoinesRegister.com -
The campus of Iowa State University, it can now be said, is the sort of place where you can rub elbows with Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
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The Guardian -
This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 10.57 BST on Wednesday 5 October 2011 . It was last modified at 00.06 BST on Thursday 6 October 2011 .
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Medical News Today -
Research published today (Wednesday 5th Oct) in the Lancet shows a surprisingly high rate of elderly people undergoing surgery in their final year, month or even week of life.
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BBC News -
A form of cloning has been used to create personalised embryonic stem cells in humans, say researchers. Genetic material was taken from an adult skin cell and transferred into a human egg.
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The Seattle Times -
Citing economic challenges in the region and country, Swedish Health Services and Providence Health & Services in Western Washington announced a plan to join forces, creating a new, nonprofit entity that would operate the largest health-care system in ...
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