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President Obama has signed legislation that ends the partial government shutdown and raises the U.S. debt ceiling. The Office of Management and Budget says federal employees should report to work Thursday. But it will take some time until all the agencies are back up to speed.

Weapons inspectors are still in Syria assessing the country's stockpile and how to destroy it. It's unclear where the weapons would go if they were sent abroad, but there are signs that such a move is under consideration.

After two weeks of not working, furloughed employees are expected to be back at the job Thursday. But that might not be that simple.

A recent U.N. study rated Germany high in quality of life for seniors. Even so many Germans spend their final days in Eastern European countries like Poland where elder care is less expensive. The practice has some asking whether it's wrong to send loved ones far away to save money.

The family of the convicted drug smuggler found him still breathing in a morgue after he was hanged last week.

One U.S. citizen was among the passengers in the turboprop that crashed into the Mekong River in southern Laos on Wednesday.

Although a debt default has been at least temporarily averted, the knock-on effect for the economy will still bite.

For a glimpse of how financial markets may view the deal by Congress to reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling, Renee Montagne speaks to HSBC's chief U.S. economist Kevin Logan.

"There was no economic rationale for this," the president said of the 16-day federal government shutdown, which he said cost billions of dollars.

Now that we've avoided a financial cataclysm, here's a suitable playlist for some of the swirling emotions of the past two weeks.