Unknown election outcome is stocks' big fear

By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - A handful of toss-up U.S. Senate races next week could hold the key to whether the stock market glides through the year-end in a typical post-midterm election rally or gets hit with a fresh bout of volatility. U.S. investors appear less concerned with whether Republicans take control of the Senate, as expected, or Democrats hang on to their majority by a slim margin. They just want to know - come Wednesday morning - the actual outcome. ...

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Ebola-free Texas nurse, pet dog reunited after long quarantine

By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - The Dallas nurse treated for Ebola had an emotional reunion on Saturday with her "best friend", a King Charles Spaniel, after the pet spent the last three weeks in quarantine being monitored for the deadly virus. The dog named Bentley showered Nina Pham with licks at a handover ceremony near the Dallas shelter where he had been kept in isolation and cared for by kennel workers in protective suits. Pham, 26, became the first person in the United States to be infected with Ebola after treating an infected man. ...



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Condition of New York doctor with Ebola upgraded to 'stable'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The condition of a New York City doctor who is being treated for Ebola after returning from West Africa has improved to "stable" from "serious from stable," hospital officials said on Saturday. Dr. Craig Spencer remains in isolation at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted on Oct. 23. He had worked with Ebola patients in Guinea. (Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Frank McGurty)



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Watch: Nurse Who Survived of Ebola Reunites With Dog

Nina Pham's dog Bentley was quarantined for 21 days.



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Scientists try to predict number of US Ebola cases

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year's end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing from the deadly disease.

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Lithuania enacts ban on energy drinks for minors, in global first

Lithuania on Saturday enacted a ban on selling energy drinks to anyone under 18, in what officials in the Baltic country claimed was a global first. "It's a revolutionary development the world over: we didn't find a single other country to have this kind of ban," health ministry official Almantas Kranauskas told AFP. Under the law which parliament adopted in May, selling energy drinks to minors is now punishable by a fine of up to 400 litas (116 euros, $146). A recent survey showed 10 percent of school-aged youth consume energy drinks at least once a week in this EU Baltic state of three million people, Kranauskas said.

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Ebola costs encourage budget flexibility among U.S. Republicans

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Worries about Ebola are chipping away at some congressional Republicans' support for maintaining across-the-board spending caps on U.S. government agencies and the military. An increasing number of Republicans are speaking out in favor of Ebola "emergency" funds, which would be passed outside of the normal budget process, and would not require offsetting spending cuts or explicit sources of revenue. ...



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