Pinera assumes Chile presidency amid strong quakes - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, including the biggest since last month's 8.8-magnitude temblor....
Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister's bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each....
Democrats, White House close in on health bill - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders Thursday walked their rank-and-file members through last-minute agreements that could move President Barack Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system a step closer to reality....
Greece hit by strikes, riots over austerity plan - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures....
First-time jobless claims drop slightly last week - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits slipped last week, but remains above the level many economists say would signal new hiring....
Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON AP) (AP) -- Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support....
KC superintendent says school closings are painful - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to do."...
Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person - a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club....
Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
LONDON (AP) -- In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records....
A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training....
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