Chiefs open 10-0 first-quarter lead on Chargers

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Jon Baldwin (89) catches a pass as San Diego Chargers safety Eric Weddle (32) and linebacker Takeo Spikes, right, defend during the first quarter of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Jon Baldwin (89) catches a pass as San Diego Chargers safety Eric Weddle (32) and linebacker Takeo Spikes, right, defend during the first quarter of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Jon Baldwin protects the ball on a 17-yard reception as San Diego Chargers cornerback Marcus Gilchrist, left, and safety Eric Weddle, bottom, defend during the first quarter of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Matt Cassel connected with Jonathan Baldwin for a 39-yard touchdown pass late in the first quarter, giving the Kansas City Chiefs a 10-0 lead over the San Diego Chargers.

Cassel was 5 of 8 for 106 yards in the opening quarter.

He hit Baldwin for 17 yards to convert a long third down on the Chiefs' first drive, and Dwayne Bowe for 26 more on another third-and-long to set up Ryan Succop's 36-yard field goal.

Philip Rivers threw his second interception of the quarter on the Chargers' ensuing drive, turning the momentum back to the Chiefs. Cassel hit fullback Le'Ron McClain for 16 yards, and a personal foul penalty for hitting a defenseless receiver on San Diego moved the ball to the Chargers 39.

Cassel dropped back to pass and saw Baldwin streaking for the end zone. The rookie wide receiver out-jumped fellow rookie Marcus Gilchrist and hauled in his first career touchdown catch.

Rivers continued his early season struggles in the first quarter.

The three-time Pro Bowl quarterback was intercepted by Kendrick Lewis on the first play of San Diego's second possession. His second pick was tipped by defensive lineman Wallace Gilberry and dropped into the hands of Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson.

Rivers also threw two fourth-quarter interceptions last week against New York, when the Jets rallied with 17 straight points to stun the AFC West-leading Chargers 27-21. He has thrown seven touchdown passes and 11 interceptions so far this season.

The Chiefs (3-3), who have won three straight after an abysmal start, can move into a tie for first in the division with San Diego (4-2) and the idle Oakland Raiders with a victory before a raucous crowd on Halloween night. They would be the first team in NFL history to lose their first three games and be tied or leading a division after seven games.

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Barclays profit up, investment bank pain continues (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Barclays Plc's (BARC.L) underlying quarterly profit rose 5 percent from a year ago as lower charges for bad debt at the British bank offset a third consecutive sharp fall in investment banking revenue.

Barclays said on Monday capital markets had remained difficult in October as the euro zone's financial problems deepened, but had shown some improvement since last week's announcement of plans to solve the crisis.

Pretax profit in the third quarter through September reached 2.4 billion pounds ($3.9 billion). Stripping out a gain on the value of its own debt and other one-off items, profit was 1.34 billion pounds, up 5 percent on the 2010 period.

Analysts said a slackening in its investment bank had been taken up by improvement in other areas, notably UK retail banking and the BarclayCard credit card arm.

"It does look as if all their businesses are making a contribution, which is always a decent sign," said Cavendish Asset Management fund manager Paul Mumford, whose firm owns around 1 million Barclays shares.

Top-line income at Barclays Capital, the investment bank that provides the bulk of the bank's profit, fell to 2.25 billion pounds, down 22 percent from the second quarter to be in line with the consensus forecast as capital markets activity was

hit hard across the industry.

Revenue in fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) dropped 16 percent from the second quarter, equities income slumped 40 percent and advisory income was down by a quarter.

Barclays' investment in U.S. money manager BlackRock (BLK.N) was marked down by 1.8 billion pounds, which it said had already been recognized in equity and regulatory capital.

Barclays said its underlying profit for the first nine months of this year was a shade over 5 billion pounds, up 18 percent from a year earlier.

Chief Executive Bob Diamond said this showed momentum "despite significant economic and market headwinds" and said the bank had "rock solid" capital, funding and liquidity. It does not intend to raise new equity capital, he said.

Losses on bad debts were 1 billion pounds in the third quarter, down 16 percent from a year ago, and have tumbled by a third so far this year.

($1 = 0.619 pound)

(Editing by Dan Lalor and David Holmes)

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GDF Suez looks to China fund to expand Asia access (AP)

BEIJING ? French power and gas company GDF Suez wants its new alliance with China's sovereign wealth fund to bring in Chinese partners to help develop global energy projects and expand its Asian presence, the company's chairman said Monday.

China Investment Corp. agreed in August to invest 3.3 billion euros ($4 billion) in GDF Suez's gas exploration unit and a gas facility in the Caribbean. The companies pledged to look for more joint investment opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region.

The deal, the first of its kind for CIC, reflects a growing trend for Chinese investors to expand abroad by taking minority stakes in established companies. The Chinese investors gain access to experience and technology while reducing the risk of political friction by limiting their ownership. The Western partners get increased access to China's fast-growing market and its pool of investment capital.

Paris-based GDF Suez wants the partnership to help drive its expansion in Asia's fast-growing energy markets, said company chairman and CEO Gerard Mestrallet. The company is developing gas fields in Australia and Indonesia, and Mestrallet said it wants to expand in gas supply, water treatment and other utility businesses in China.

"CIC can give better access to some Chinese financial partners," Mestrallet said at a news conference.

"It can also open doors for us with a large variety of Chinese potential partners" in power generation and other businesses, he said. "And CIC could help GDF Suez to find Chinese partners to participate jointly in projects in Southeast Asia and Africa, or eventually in Latin America."

CIC was created in 2007 to invest a portion of Beijing's $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves. Its leaders have said their investments abroad will be mostly small shareholdings in companies and other minority investments to reduce the risk of arousing political tensions.

CIC agreed in August to invest 2.3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in GDF Suez's gas exploration unit in exchange for a 30 percent stake and to pay 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) for 10 percent of the LNG Atlantic liquefaction plant in Trinidad and Tobago.

GDF Suez is one of the world's biggest gas and power companies, with 85 billion euros ($119 billion) in revenue last year. Its activities include gas production and supply, power generation and water treatment in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

In China, GDF Suez supplies gas to power companies and has 26 joint ventures to treat or distribute water, including in the major cities of Chongqing and Shanghai.

Mestrallet was in Beijing to sign the final agreement on CIC's investment. He said the two sides are creating a joint board to look for more investment opportunities.

He said CIC already has helped to arrange a possible line of credit for GDF Suez from China's biggest state-owned commercial lender, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.

Also in China, GDF Suez has an agreement with state-owned energy company CNOOC Ltd. to cooperate on developing new projects.

The French company is providing CNOOC with a ship that can store and regasify liquefied natural gas to supply coastal areas that lack gas terminals. GDF Suez's executive vice president, Jean-Marie Dauger, said the gas vessel is valued at about $250 million but declined to give other financial details.

Other Western companies also are forging links with Chinese partners to expand access to the world's second-largest economy and investment, including cash-rich state banks that avoided the credit problems that battered Western institutions.

General Motors Co. announced a venture in 2009 to expand in India with China's Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., which committed to invest $350 million. The companies said they might also team up to sell vehicles in Southeast Asia.

In June, Chinese conglomerate Fosun acquired 7.1 percent of French resort operator Club Med. The deal gives Club Med an experienced Chinese partner as it expands in China's booming tourism market.

GDF Suez also might look for Chinese partners to invest in power generation projects in other countries, Mastrallet said. He said there are no plans to get involved in generation in China, where government regulations do not permit independent power companies.

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Israel and Gaza militants exchange fire, 10 killed (AP)

JERUSALEM ? Israeli aircraft struck at Palestinian militants in Gaza on Saturday who responded with a volley of rockets which rained on southern Israeli towns, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Palestinian officials said nine militants were killed, while on the Israeli side one civilian was killed and four others were wounded.

Exchanges of fire are common between southern Israel and the Gaza strip controlled by the militant Hamas group, but this is the worst in months.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said nine people were killed and 15 wounded in separate attacks on militant targets.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said one Israeli civilian was killed and four others wounded when Palestinian rockets exploded in residential areas in southern Israel.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed a total of four strikes in Gaza, saying the military hit Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad, one of several groups in Gaza which fires rockets into southern Israel. The spokesman said that the first attack specifically targeted a cell responsible for a Wednesday rocket attack that exploded deep inside Israel. That attack had caused no casualties.

The military "will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians," the spokesman said. He spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with military protocols.

The Israeli military released video footage taken from a military drone Saturday afternoon that shows Palestinians unloading rockets from a truck and preparing them for firing at Israel. The strike took place shortly afterward.

Abu Salmia, the Gaza health official, said five people had been killed and 11 wounded in the first attack. Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Ahmed confirmed that one of its local field commanders, Ahmed Sheikh Khalil, was among the dead. He said Khalil was one of the group's chief bomb makers. "Today it was a great loss for us in the Islamic Jihad," he said. "The size of our retaliation will equal our loss," it said in a text message sent to reporters.

"Our response shall be in the depths of the Zionist entity," it said in reference to the Israeli heartland.

After the first airstrike, militants in Gaza fired over 20 rockets at southern Israel, Rosenfeld said.

Islamic Jihad took responsibility for firing the rockets in a text message to reporters, and released photos of the rockets being launched from the backs of pickup trucks. The group said this is the first time they are using this system as opposed to firing them from launchers on the ground.

One rocket hit an apartment building in the southern city of Ashkelon and injured a 50 year-old Israeli who later died of his wounds, Rosenfeld said. Another exploded outside an apartment building in nearby Ashdod, injuring one person. Israeli television showed about a dozen cars in flames outside the building.

Another Israeli sustained shrapnel wounds in the nearby town of Gan Yavneh and others in the Ashdod region were treated for shock, the Israeli military spokesman said.

Israel's Channel 2 television reported that one rocket hid a school, causing massive damage. No one was hurt because the school was closed for the Jewish Sabbath, Ashdod Mayor Yehiel Lasri said.

Late Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the mayors of cities hit by Palestinian rockets. Netanyahu said the military had hit rocket launcher squads responsible for the attacks and said "the military's response will be tougher if needed."

After the rocket barrage, Abu Salmia said that a second Israeli attack killed two people. Islamic Jihad confirmed that they were militants. Israel's military spokesman said that the second air strike had hit "terrorists that fired rockets on Israel in the evening,"

Abu Salmia said another Israeli strike late Saturday killed two more militants bringing the total to nine.

The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad took responsibility for multiple suicide bombings and shooting attacks against civilians in Israel during the second Palestinian intifadah, or uprising, in the first half of the last decade.

Israel and Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, blamed each other for the flare up in violence Saturday.

"The Hamas terror organization is solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip," the Israeli military said.

Israel as a matter of policy holds Hamas liable for violence perpetrated by any of the different armed groups in the coastal territory.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum meanwhile said Israel is "fully responsible for all the results of this dangerous escalation."

In the winter of 2008, Israel launched a broad military offensive inside Gaza aimed at stopping almost daily Palestinian rocket fire at Israeli communities.

Since then, violence has continued sporadically along the border and Palestinians continue to launch mortars and rockets at Israel, but to a much lesser degree.

On Wednesday, militants fired a long-range Katyusha rocket that exploded near Ashdod in the south of Israel. Sirens also went off in the central Israeli city of Rehovot, which unlike many southern Israeli cities is not accustomed to rocket fire, causing panic. The Israeli military said the alarm went off because the rocket exploded in an area between the two cities.

Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said that Israeli diplomats "will protest against the indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians to the U.N. Secretary General." He said a similar letter sent after Wednesday's attack has yet to be answered.

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Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza contributed to this report.

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Frankie Jonas Takes Us Halloween Costume Shopping

Jonas Brothers' little bro talks about his upcoming role on 'R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series.'
By Jocelyn Vena

Frankie Jonas
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NEW YORK — Frankie Jonas may be the smallest of the Jonas brothers, but he certainly isn't short on personality. Frankie, like his three older brothers before him, is trying his hand at show business and will appear this weekend on "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series."

Being that it is the season for all things creepy, the always swagged-out Frankie decided to bring MTV News along as he searched for the just-right Halloween costume.

"What we're doing here today, we are looking at the costumes and we're going costume shopping," he told MTV News at Abracadabra. "Which I'm really happy about, because I need to get a head-start on my costume."

Jonas picked two costumes — a zombie and Chucky from "Child's Play" — and he explained why, of all the costumes in the store, those made his final cut. "I chose the zombie because I was a zombie for two years in a row ... zombies, they're like the full-on. Everyone loves zombies," he said. "Zombies are the base of Halloween, 'cause you get dead, you get living and you get creepy.

"I like Chucky, 'cause it's really, like, no offense to Chucky, but he's kind of cheesy," the 11-year-old continued. "But that's what I like about him. I love old, cheesy horror movies. I love horror movies. My two favorites are probably 'Sweeney Todd' and the original 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' "

His episode of the series, titled "Pumpkinhead," will air Saturday on the Hub, and like any seasoned pro, Jonas is keeping the details a big secret.

"It's scary funny, but my episode full-on creeps you out. It's like if you mixed together intense with, like, super scary and then a little bit of comedy, and then you get [my episode]," he explained. "My character, I'm not scary, but I do things that make things scary. I don't want to give too much away but everyone's going to love it."

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Aussie court ends Qantas strike, fleet grounding

Idle Qantas planes are reflected in a window at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Qantas Airways grounded all of its aircraft around the world indefinitely Saturday due to ongoing strikes by its workers. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Idle Qantas planes are reflected in a window at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Qantas Airways grounded all of its aircraft around the world indefinitely Saturday due to ongoing strikes by its workers. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Douglas and Diane Phillips of Dover, Del. say they are trying to book a flight on another airline after their Qantas flight to Melbourne the night before was canceled at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet Saturday, suddenly locking out striking workers after weeks of flight disruptions. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks to the media after Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet amid a bitter dispute with striking workers, stranding passengers around the world, during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/ Theron Kirkman)

A Qantas Airbus A-330 plane sits on the tarmac at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Sunday Oct. 30, 2011 at suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines. Tens of thousands of stranded Qantas Airways passengers worldwide scrambled to get to their destinations Sunday after the airline abruptly grounded its global fleet over a dispute with striking workers. Australia's government sought a court order to force the flagship carrier's planes back in the air. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Qantas Airways customer service workers help passengers at Los Angeles International Airport as the airline grounded its global fleet locking out striking workers after weeks of flight disruptions Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ? Qantas Airways could begin returning its grounded fleet to the skies as early a Monday after an Australian court intervened in a bitter labor dispute by ending strikes and canceling a staff lock out.

The arbitration court ruling Monday is a major victory in the airline's battle with unions whose rolling strikes have forced to cancellation of 600 flights in recent months, disrupted the travel for 70,000 passengers and cost Qantas 70 million Australian dollars ($75 million).

But the surprise grounding of all 108 planes on Saturday, at a cost of $20 million a day, has hurt the Australian flagship's reputation among the tens of thousand of passengers who have been stranded around the world.

"We will be getting our aircraft back up in the air as soon as we possibly can," CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement within an hour of his court victory 2 a.m. Monday.

A limited flight schedule could begin Monday afternoon with the approval of aviation regulators, he said.

The Australian government, angered by a lack of warning of the grounding, called an emergency court hearing on Saturday night to end the work bans for the sake of the national economy.

The arbitration court heard more than 14 hours of testimony from the airline, the government and unions after the government. Workers have held rolling strikes and refused overtime work for weeks out of worry that some of Qantas' 35,000 jobs would be moved overseas in a restructuring plan.

The unions wanted a temporary suspension of the employee lockout, but the airline said the strikes had been too devastating and it needed certainty to continue operating.

Tribunal President Geoffrey Giudice said the panel decided a temporary suspension would still risk Qantas' grounding its fleet in the future and would not protect the tourism and aviation industry from damage.

"We decided that in the particular circumstances of this case which on the evidence include the particular vulnerability of the tourism industry to uncertainty, suspension will not provide sufficient protection against the risk of significant damage to the tourism industry and aviation," Giudice said.

Qantas is the largest of Australia's four national domestic airlines, and the grounding affected 108 planes in 22 countries.

About 70,000 passengers fly Qantas daily, and would-be fliers this weekend were stuck at home, hotels, airports or even had to suddenly deplane when Qantas suspended operations. More than 60 flights were in the air at the time but flew to their destinations, and Qantas was paying for passengers to book other flights.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said before the panel ruled that the airline could be flying again within hours of a decision. He had estimated the grounding would cost the carrier $20 million a day.

German tourist Michael Messmann was trying to find a way home from Singapore on Sunday. He and his wife spent five weeks traveling around Australia but found their connecting flight home to Frankfurt suddenly canceled.

"I don't know the details of the dispute, but it seems like a severe reaction by the airline to shut down all their flights. That seems a bit extreme," said Messmann, 68. "After five weeks of traveling, we just want to go home."

Australian business traveler Graeme Yeatman sided with the airline, even though he was also trying to find a new flight home to Sydney on Sunday after his flight was canceled.

"I think the unions have too much power over Qantas. Even though this is an inconvenience for me, I'm glad the airline is drawing a line in the sand," said Yeatman, 41.

The airline infuriated unions in August when it said it would improve its loss-making overseas business by creating an Asia-based airline with its own name and brand. The five-year restructure plan will cost 1,000 jobs.

Qantas said in August it had more than doubled annual profit to AU$250 million but warned that the business environment was too challenging to forecast earnings for the current fiscal year.

Associated Press

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