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  • Oct 4- Social media company Facebook Inc said on Thursday it reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last month, and is up by 45 million users since June. Facebook has faced a rough debut since its May initial public offering.

  • Frida Kahlo, her real look, on display in Mexico Thursday, 4 Oct 2012 | 8:39 AM ET

    She graced dinner parties and theaters from Paris to New York in ribbons, full skirts and loose peasant blouses embroidered with vividly colored flowers, and her uni-brow was a bold contrast to the pencil-line eyebrows of the time.

  • Oct 4- Social media company Facebook Inc said on Thursday it reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last month, and is up by 45 mi llion us ers since June. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, hit the 1 billion milestone on Sept. 14 at 12:45 p.m. Pacific time, the company said on its website.

  • Oct 4- Social media company Facebook Inc said on Thursday it reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last month, and is up more than 50 million users since June. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, hit the 1 billion milestone on Sept. 14 at 12:45 p.m. Pacific time, the company said on its website.

  • *Air Canada load factor a record 84.9 pct, traffic up. Oct 3- Canada's two largest airlines, Air Canada. The load factor on Air Canada's flights to Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America made the biggest jump, to 82.9 percent from 79.4 percent in the same period last year.

  • *To transfer sales staff from South Europe to South America. AARHUS, Denmark, Oct 3- Ailing Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas said on Wednesday it is stopping all non-profitable projects as it battles worsening prospects by slashing costs and jobs to lift medium-term operating margins to high single digit levels.

  • JetBlue: Free flights for disgruntled voters Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 10:27 AM ET

    NEW YORK-- In a marketing gimmick that piggybacks on next month's presidential election, JetBlue is offering a way for Americans to make good on threats to leave the country if "the other guy" wins.

  • US begins flying home deported Mexicans Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 9:12 AM ET

    SAN DIEGO-- The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by large numbers of people ordered to leave the United States, some who fall prey to criminal gangs.

  • Illegal immigrant in Fla. fights for law license Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 8:53 AM ET

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-- A Florida man's bid to become the first illegal immigrant to obtain a law license in the United States met skepticism Tuesday from most of the state's Supreme Court justices. He graduated from New College in Florida, earned a law degree from Florida State University and passed the state bar exam last year.

  • DAKAR, Oct 3- French airline Corsair International will start direct flights between Paris and Senegal's capital Dakar in December, ending Air France's.

  • Ranchers see increase in grass thefts amid drought Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 3:07 AM ET

    VAUGHN, N.M.-- Petty crime and burglaries aren't unusual in New Mexico's isolated Guadalupe County, but lately Sheriff Michael Lucero has seen thieves steal something a bit unexpected: grass.

  • Fact sheet: 2013 Ram Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012 | 12:46 AM ET

    2013 Ram 1500 4 X4 SLT Regular Cab Short Wheelbase.

  • Theravance in partnership on gastroparesis drug Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012 | 6:27 PM ET

    NEW YORK-- Theravance Inc. said Tuesday it formed a partnership with Italian drugmaker Alfa Wassermann SpA to develop its gastrointestinal disorder drug velusetrag. Theravance said the companies will work together on mid-stage clinical testing of the drug.

  • TEXT-Fitch affirms FM Global's 'AA' IFS ratings Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012 | 1:53 PM ET

    Oct 2- Fitch Ratings has affirmed the' AA' Insurer Financial Strength ratings of Factory Mutual Insurance Company and its affiliates. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

  • NEW YORK, Oct 2- Bill Gross, founder and co-chief investment officer of bond giant PIMCO, said he sees the U.S. going the way of Greece if it does not get its fiscal house in order.

  • Mexicans puzzled by Azerbaijan leader monument Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012 | 8:19 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY-- The appearance of a life-size statue of Azerbaijan's "founder of the nation" on Mexico City's elegant Reforma Avenue, not far from Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico's national heroes, is raising eyebrows and protests.

  • Jim O'Neill: How to Trade the New China  Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012 | 4:05 AM ET

    Jim O'Neill, chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, tells CNBC "We are in the early stages of China going to a quality China as opposed to quantity and the winners and losers are going to be pretty different."

  • Failed Obama Foreign Policy?  Monday, 1 Oct 2012 | 7:15 PM ET

    Governor Romney blasted President Obama in a Wall Street Journal op-ed today, outlining his Mideast vision, and according to an Univision Report, there are more "Fast & Furious" guns linked to Mexican crimes, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), and Richard Williamson, former Ambassador to U.N. Security Council, provide perspective.

  • U.S.-traded shares of Argentine companies did particularly well, with telecom holding company Nortel Inversora gaining 7.7 percent to $11.10 and Petrobras Argentina, a subsidiary of Brazil's Petrobras adding 4.4 percent to its share price. The BNY Mellon index of leading Latin American ADRs gained 1.1 percent on the day.

  • NASCAR Mexico Series to race at Phoenix in 2013 Monday, 1 Oct 2012 | 3:37 PM ET

    The most popular motorsports series in Mexico will make its U.S. debut next season at Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR Toyota Series will run at Phoenix on March 1 in conjunction with the Sprint Cup, Nationwide and K&N West Series. NASCAR and PIR officials will hold a Tuesday news conference in Phoenix.