2009-10-01: PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue teams struggled in heavy rain on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.

2009-10-01: AP - Police say they have shot and killed a man accused of abducting his 5-year-old son after he allegedly killed the boy's mother and her boyfriend at her home in Southern California.

2009-10-01: AP - Guinea's military leader banned all gatherings and demonstrations Wednesday, as the United Nations pressed for an independent investigation into why troops opened fire on 50,000 pro-democracy protesters.

2009-10-01: Reuters - The explosion of ways people watch television is confounding the media industry, which has relied for decades on the Nielsen ratings but now must adapt to the realities of the Internet and on-demand video.

2009-10-01: The fund?s latest report predicts a global expansion of 3.1 percent next year, better than its earlier forecast.

2009-10-01: AP - Asian stocks fell Thursday after a weak economic reading in the U.S. weighed on Wall Street and as a Japanese survey showed manufacturers still think they have too many workers.

2009-10-01: Reuters - Manufacturing activity surged across Asia in September as demand picked up, although plans by Japanese manufacturers for record cuts in capital spending cast doubts on the strength of a recovery in the industrialized world.

2009-10-01: AFP - The Chancellor of the Exchequer Thursday urged the European Union to clamp down on bankers' bonuses, after five of the country's biggest banks signed up to new rules on payments.

2009-10-08: AP - For a homeowner who needs to sell but has a mortgage balance higher than the property value, one option is something called a 'short sale.'

2009-10-01: There have been a flurry of new investment funds organized to buy up heavily discounted residential property from desperate sellers.

2009-10-01: A simple, non-invasive test appears to be an effective screening tool for identifying patients with silent heart disease who are at risk for a heart attack or sudden death.