German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hardening her stance on additional help for struggling euro zone economies like Greece and Spain.

EADS is open to talks about guaranteeing jobs in its planned merger with Britain's BAE Systems, seeking to win Germany's support,

Britta Steffen swam the final lap of the first swimming event to feature men and women competing against one another. Germany came away with the victory in the 4x50-meter mixed relay at the World Cup meet in Dubai on October 2nd.

The latest twist in the euro zone's three-year-old sovereign debt crisis comes as pressure mounts on Madrid to seek a rescue program that would trigger ECB buying of its bonds.

Berlin's city government has allowed the operations to resume.

* Justices to review lawsuits over abuses abroad

* Scope of U.S. courts' jurisdiction in dispute

* Arguments closely watched, the result of a rare rehearing

By Jonathan Stempel

Oct 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court, back in session today after its summer recess, is expected to take up a closely watched case that could help it decide whether American judges are empowered to hear lawsuits over human rights atrocities abroad.

EADS shareholder told the aerospace group to review the "unsatisfactory" terms of its planned $45-billion merger with BAE Systems.

If Catholics don't pay church taxes, they'll be denied sacraments.

Plans to create a new European defence giant entered a crucial political phase as Germany prepared to seek equal standing with France.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany said its general secretary, Michael Kramer, had endured a barrage of threatening insults from the man after leaving a Berlin synagogue.