Sept 22 (Gracenote) - Latest leaderboard in the first round from the European Tour European Open at the par-71 course on Thursday in Bad Griesbach

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States and Russia failed to agree on how to revive a ceasefire in Syria on Thursday as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington cannot be the only one trying to hold open the door to peace and urged Russia and the Syrian government to do their part.

LIBREVILLE, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Gabon's Constitutional Court said it would issue a ruling on Friday on an election that opposition leader Jean Ping said was rigged to give President Ali Bongo victory.

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Options exchange operator CBOE Holdings Inc is in talks to buy Bats Global Markets Inc , the No. 2 U.S. stock exchange operator by volume, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - France demanded Syria ground its planes, the Netherlands said a new Syrian government offensive on Aleppo sends the wrong signal, and Russia said "nothing happened" after a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in New York.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors poured $1 billion into U.S. Treasury funds in the week ended Sept. 21, the funds' biggest inflows since mid-February, as the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday.

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has again thrown out a $3 billion lawsuit by investors in two "feeder funds" that sent money to Bernard Madoff, one of the largest lawsuits tied to his Ponzi scheme, after her original dismissal had been overturned.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Aboriginal tribes from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty on Thursday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to carry crude from Alberta's oil sands, saying further development would damage the environment.

TORONTO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - General Motors Co's Oshawa plant will do final assembly work on at least 70,000 pickup trucks a year once investments promised in its Canadian unit's new labor agreement are complete, according to two sources close to negotiations.