Teemu Selanne weaves his way out of his own end and lofts a perfectly-timed pass up the middle of the ice through a tangle of sticks to Justin Williams who goes in on a breakaway and scores.

Supporters of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party on Tuesday attacked a demonstration by the country's main labour union, in the latest unrest two years after the revolution, an AFP photographer reported.

Supporters of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party on Tuesday attacked a demonstration by the country's main labour union, in the latest unrest two years after the revolution, an AFP photographer reported.

A union representing flight attendants of Hong Kong's flagship carrier Cathay Pacific on Tuesday threatened industrial action over a pay rise dispute, just weeks before the holiday season.

Fourteen people were killed when an arsonist torched an underwear factory in the southern Chinese city of Shantou on Tuesday, state media reported.

A fire at an underwear factory killed 14 people Tuesday in the southern Chinese city of Shantou, state media reported.

Farm workers in South Africa's picturesque winelands resumed strike action on Tuesday, with tension enveloping the Western Cape region but few signs of a repeat of deadly violence.

Spain's queue of job seekers grew to a new record in November, official data showed Tuesday, a grim sign for a nation in the grip of a jobs-killing recession.

German truck maker MAN is to slash working hours for 5,300 workers in Germany from next month, the head of the group's trucks division Anders Nielsen said in a newspaper interview Tuesday.

A teenage activist from an Islamist party in Bangladesh was killed during clashes in which police fired live bullets to disperse crowds ahead of a nationwide strike on Tuesday, officials said.

The White House urged employers and unions to forge a deal "as quickly as possible" to end a nearly week-old strike blocking a key US trade hub amid a warning it was costing billions.

A strike disrupting cargo through a key US trade gateway with Asia is about to enter its second week, with no progress reported in negotiations, and warnings about the economic fallout.

The New York Times said Monday it was offering buyouts to 30 newsroom managers and other journalists as part of an ongoing cost-cutting drive in a difficult environment for the newspaper industry.

A French minister cast doubt Sunday on whether the world's top steelmaker ArcelorMittal would keep its end of the bargain after a compromise deal on a key plant that Paris had threatened to nationalise.

Domestic railway traffic ground to a halt in Portugal on Saturday as rail workers staged a strike against salary cuts, part of government austerity measures introduced to get international bailout funds.

Tunisia's government and main trade union reached a deal on Saturday aimed at satisfying demands by demonstrators in the impoverished governorate of Siliana angry over poor living conditions.

The Tunisian army withdrew from Siliana on Saturday only hours after entering the flashpoint town following days of intense clashes with protesters, a police official said.

European aerospace group EADS, which controls Airbus, said on Friday that it would shed up to 850 jobs through voluntary departures in a restructuring of its defence and security arm Cassidian.

Unemployment in the eurozone hit a record high in October with more than 170,000 extra jobs lost and youth unemployment at almost 24 percent as the economy slumped into recession, official data showed Friday.

Unemployment in the eurozone hit a record high in October with more than 170,000 more jobs lost as the debt crisis continued to undermine an economy slumping into recession, official data showed on Friday.