2009-11-01: KABUL (Reuters) - Pressure grew on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's rival Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday to pull out of an election run-off as his supporters gathered to chart their next step in a protracted and complicated campaign.

2009-11-01: AP - Seattle police say an officer has been fatally shot, likely the first police officer killed in the line of duty in the city since 2006.

2009-11-01: AP - It sounds like another New Jersey joke. Except it's not funny if you actually live here.

2009-11-01: Reuters - A popular website of classified ads that has given Cubans a taste of the free market has been blocked on the communist-run island, Internet users said.

2009-11-01: The Chancellor Alistair Darling tells the BBC there could be three new High Street banks in the UK over the next three to four years.

2009-11-01: AP - After a forceful reminder that the third quarter is history, stock investors are now uneasy about the final months of the year.

2009-11-01: Reuters - The U.S. economy has been kick-started into growth but stock investors still face an uncertain outlook as Wall Street gears up for comments from the Federal Reserve and a key report on employment next week.

2009-11-02: AP - European stock markets rose modestly Monday despite earlier big losses in Asia, as solid manufacturing data helped ease concerns that the global economic recovery is faltering.

2009-11-04: Reuters - GMAC Financial Services, a lender that has received $12.5 billion in government bailouts, posted a third straight quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by red ink in its mortgage business.

2009-11-03: A bungalow near Minneapolis, a four-bedroom house in a lake in Indianapolis and a riverfront hacienda in Spicewood, Tex.

2009-11-01: MANUFACTURING activity grew slowly for the third consecutive month in October, after falling employment and soft exports put pressure on the sector, a survey shows.