The Los Angeles Lakers won without Kobe Bryant, who is gone for the rest of the season with a torn Achilles. Will they have enough power to make a championship run?
The U.S. brokerage unit and a European unit of the former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said they settled a dispute over $38 billion in asset claims, a major step toward customers and creditors recovering money.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September. The drop marks the first time since President Obama took office that the unemployment rate has been below 8 percent.
One day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, President Barack Obama got tough on Republican rival Mitt Romney on Thursday as the Democrat's re-election campaign vowed to learn lessons from the setback.
