Obama makes pitch for House healthcare votes (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:52 GMT 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

Afghans killed during search for missing U.S. troops (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - 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.

UK joins G20 push for world levy on banks (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:18:34 GMT Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Iran says over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - 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.

Honduran rivals signal new bid to solve crisis (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:20 GMT 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

U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible": grandfather (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:55:10 GMT Reuters - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.

Storm Ida revives, churns toward Gulf of Mexico (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - 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.

Laid-off Orlando engineer kills one, wounds five (Reuters) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:42:30 GMT Shooting suspect Jason Rodriguez is taken into custody by police in Orlando, November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Image courtesy of News 13/Handout

G20 wants 'ambitious' Copenhagen talks, but gives no figures (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:33 GMT 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)

NATO strike kills 7 Afghan security forces: Kabul (AFP) Top Stories News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:27:24 GMT An Afghan army medic soldier looks out from an ambulance in Kabul. Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry has said.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)