Moderate Democrat boosts Senate health bill (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:04 GMT U.S Senate Majority leader Harry Reid speaks about healthcare reform legislation during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington November 19, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:28 GMT Ukraine's fans, wearing face masks as preventive measures against the H1N1 flu, cheer during the second leg of the 2010 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Donetsk November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Obama job approval rating drops under 50 percent (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:31:58 GMT U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Beijing November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying for Cuba (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:35 GMT Reuters - A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.

U.S. to drop charges against one Blackwater guard (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:45 GMT Reuters - U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.

Cautious optimism as job losses slow (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:02:13 GMT People use computers to look for work at the California Employment Development Department in San Francisco, California September 4, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

New guidelines push back age for Pap smears (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:43 GMT A pap smear showing clamydia in the vacuoles at 500x and stained with H&E in an image courtesy of the National Cancer Institute. REUTERS/NCI/Handout

Somalia to join child rights pact, only U.S. outside (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:14:05 GMT Reuters - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday.

EU leaders face flak as new president keeps low profile (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:24:05 GMT (L-R) European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Belgian Prime Minsiter Herman Van Rompuy and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker at a European Union summit. Incoming EU president Van Rompuy kept a low profile as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)

Obama Afghan decision to come after Thanksgiving (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:32 GMT US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at in Shanghai, on November 16. President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not to he will send reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)