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Reuters – President Barack Obama signed into law a $17.6 billion jobs bill on Thursday and sounded an optimistic note about the U.S. economy, saying it may soon begin adding jobs instead of losing them.

BusinessWeek – Tinashe Chinyanga describes his childhood in Zimbabwe as fairly standard, working in the fields every morning before walking to school in a nearby village. But the rest of his education has been a world away from his village friends: boarding school, then a medical degree, and now the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB). Education was his ticket out of an early grave, says 28-year-old Chinyanga. “Most of my peers have HIV, if they’re not already dead.” Chinyanga owes his more fortunate path in part to his father, who was a teacher and pushed him to succeed. …

Simin Behbahani, Iran’s most prominent poet, was about to board a flight to Paris when police seized her passport. Behbahani, 82 and nearly blind, has not been charged with any crime. Many fear her treatment may signal a rise in repressive tactics by Iran’s government.

Reuters – Thrifts did not engage in regulatory arbitrage, nor were they a cause of the financial crisis, the top U.S. thrift regulator said on Wednesday.

Reuters – Bombing by Nigeria’s biggest militant group in its oil delta this week will not derail an amnesty deal meant to restore security to Africa’s largest energy industry, government and security sources said on Tuesday.

Reuters – U.S. tax authorities are expected to “very shortly” launch another prosecution against a foreign bank similar to the tax evasion case they pressed against Switzerland’s UBS AG, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent said on Monday.

The pope’s former diocese said Monday a priest who had been convicted of sexually abusing minors during the pontiff’s tenure as archbishop has been suspended from his pastoral duties for violating a condition he not work with youth.

AP – Iran’s oil minister said Monday that OPEC nations should not change their crude output targets at their upcoming meeting in Vienna.

Researchers studying the origin of the recent deadly earthquake have found signs of an actual fault rupture offshore, and figured out what triggered a small tsunami. But not all the causes of the natural disaster were, in fact, natural.

Reuters – The German Finance Ministry said on Saturday it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to provide a multi-billion euro bailout package for heavily indebted Greece.