Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.

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Early Black Friday sales at Best Buy, Walmart and others.

Police are searching for a woman who assaulted a child on a city sidewalk.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Shops began to reopen in Haiti's capital on Thursday as the hunt for trapped survivors from the killer earthquake wound down and efforts intensified to help the masses of hurt and homeless people.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama threatened to fight Wall Street banks on Thursday with a new proposal to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the dollar tumbling.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she did not think the Senate's version of healthcare reform had enough support to pass the House of Representatives without changes.

A Dutch airlift brought 106 children from quake-ravaged Haiti to new lives in the Netherlands and Luxembourg on Thursday, as anxious families waited to hug children they had been in the process of adopting for months.

Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.

German authorities were searching Thursday for a roughly 50-year-old man who left a screening area with his laptop after it had triggered an alert for possible explosives.

Miners' families demand answers in China mine explosion that killed at least 104



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Rescuers find survivor at sea, 25 hours after Indonesian ferry sank; 29 dead.



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Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner during rescue.



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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Shops began to reopen in Haiti's capital on Thursday as the hunt for trapped survivors from the killer earthquake wound down and efforts intensified to help the masses of hurt and homeless people.

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen will stop issuing tourist visas on arrival to foreigners in an effort to prevent militants entering the country as it steps up its war on al Qaeda, a government official and state media said on Thursday.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians belittled each other's commitment to peace as U.S. President Barack Obama admitted on Thursday he had underrated the difficulty of reviving deadlocked Middle East negotiations.

More than a week after the quake rocked the country, the grief of not knowing has become unbearable. Frustration and hopelessness has boiled into anger against the U.S. government.

A woman was not trying to kick the brother accused of killing her and seven other people out of the house they shared, a family attorney said Thursday.

A Michigan defense contractor will voluntarily stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights sold to the U.S. military, a major buyer of the company's gear.

Deaths linked to drop-down crib prompt recall of 2.1 million Stork Craft cribs.



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Obama's upcoming issues include health care, Afghanistan and federal deficit.



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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she does not think the Senate's version of healthcare reform has enough support in the House to pass without changes.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The fourth in a string of winter storms, said to be the heaviest to hit Southern California in five years, swept into the area on Thursday, and 800 homes remained evacuated under threat of mudslides.

KALAMAZOO, Mich (Reuters) - In Stephen Gorsalitz's courtroom, you could be forgiven for thinking you've stumbled into a rehab clinic like the Betty Ford Center.