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The U.S. government has partially ground to a halt for the first time in 17 years. Squabbling Democrats and Republicans couldn't find a way to agree a new budget, clashing over Obamacare - the current administration's high profile reform of the health system.
Investment advisor Patrick Young says that ultimately Washington is losing the trust of the world's economic elite.



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on its last day.


It's been 17 years since the last time the US government partially ceased its work - but it's actually the 18th time in US history it's taking a so called 'spending gap'. In 1977, the government was shut down three times in as many months. Jim Rogers, author of Street Smarts, Adventures on the Road and in the Marketsand believes this vicious cycle is nowhere soon to end.


South Korea has displayed a domestically-built missile capable of hitting all parts of North Korea and other sophisticated weapons at the country's biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in a decade. Tuesday's televised ceremony at a military airport near Seoul involved about 11-thousand troops, 190 weapons systems and other equipment and 120 aircraft. Among the weapons featured was a Hyunmu-3 cruise missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), which South Korea has developed in recent years. It was the first time the missile was publicly shown.