NUMBER OF AMERICANS APPLYING FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DROPPED BY 23,000 **

APPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AID DECLINED TO A SEASONALLY ADJUSTED 340,000 **

THAT'S DOWN FROM 363,000 THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND A LEVEL CONSISTENT WITH **

TWO SUICIDE CAR BOMBS DETONATED IN NIGER SIMULTANEOUSLY MORE THAN 100 MILES **

ONE EXPLODED INSIDE A MILITARY CAMP IN THE CITY OF AGADEZ AND THE OTHER IN **

TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 29 WERE INJURED **

ATTACKS WERE CLAIMED BY THE ISLAMIC EXTREMIST GROUP THE MOVEMENT FOR **

AN AMERICAN MAN SUSPECTED OF KILLING FOUR PEOPLE IS ON THE RUN IN THE CZECH **

BRNO POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE MAN AS KEVIN DAHLGREN, BORN IN 1992 **

CZECH PUBLIC TV SAY DAHLGREN IS THE NEPHEW OF A MARRIED COUPLE WHO WERE **

MEAT PACKERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO EXPLICITLY LIST THE ORIGIN OF BEEF, PORK **

NEW REGULATION IS INTENDED TO RESOLVE YEARS OF DISPUTES WITH CANADA AND **

IT COMPLIES WITH A WORLD TRADE ORG DECISION ISSUED IN JUNE 2012 THAT UPHELD **

POPE FRANCIS DECLARES EVERYONE IS REDEEMED THROUGH JESUS, INCLUDING **

DURING MASS IN ROME, FRANCIS EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF "DOING GOOD" AS A **

NOT ALL CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT THOSE WHO DON'T BELIEVE WILL BE REDEEMED **

FRIENDS AND FAMILY GATHER FOR THE FIRST OF FUNERAL SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF **

TODAY'S SERVICE IS FOR 9-YR-OLD ANTONIA CANDELARIA, ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN **

TEN OF THE VICTIMS WERE CHILDREN **

SECOND JEWELRY THEFT REPORTED AT THE CANNES FILM FEST **

POLICE SAYS A "HIGH VALUE" NECKLACE WAS NABBED OVERNIGHT FROM THE RESORT **