The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, the death toll from mudslides and flooding in El Salvador caused by hurricane Ida has risen to 152 with many more missing, national media quoted rescuers as saying on November 11.

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, the U.S. has decided to send an envoy to North Korea to persuade the communist regime to resume denuclearization talks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on November 11.

The FINANCIAL -- Twenty years ago people around the globe woke up to a different world as the previous day’s events finally sunk in – the Berlin Wall had really come down. Freedom was real for the citizens of Eastern Europe and there was hope that maybe, just maybe, the world was becoming a safer place.

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, two deaths from swine flu have been confirmed in Russia's Urals, the sanitary watchdog in the Chelyabinsk Region said on November 11.

The FINANCIAL -- SINGAPORE, Foreign ministers from Pacific Rim countries met in Singapore on November 11 morning ahead of an APEC summit, for informal discussions focusing on economic security.