Greece, Spain 'in depression': Stiglitz

GREECE and Spain are in "depression, not recession", Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said, blaming tough austerity measures for their downward economic spiral. Mr Stiglitz also said that the IMF was "a little too optimistic" in...

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Woman 'gives birth on subway train'

IT was a very unusual delivery on a Philadelphia subway line. Police say a woman riding the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's Broad Street line told officers she gave birth aboard a northbound train Tuesday afternoon. KYW-TV...

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TB 'global burden' remains huge: WHO

THE fight against tuberculosis is making progress but "the global burden" of the deadly disease remains enormous, the World Health Organisation said in its annual report. The WHO has pledged to cut TB deaths to half the 1990 rate, a goal the agency...

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Five dead in arson-homicide at bar

Police investigate at Fero's Bar and Grill in Denver where the bodies of a man and four woman were discovered after firefighters extinguished a fire at the bar. Police believe the fire was lit to cover up a multiple homicide. Source: AP DENVER...

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30 people killed in central Nigeria attack

POLICE say that at least 30 people have been killed in an attack on a Christian village by Muslim herdsmen in central Nigeria. The attacks happened in Benue state, where the herdsmen burned a village of the Christian Tiv people. Benue police...

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Worst grape harvest in half century

DROUGHT, frost and hail have combined to ravage Europe's wine grape harvest, which in key regions this year will be the smallest in half a century, vintners say. Thierry Coste, an expert with the European Union farmers' union, said that France's...

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US embassy staff in Stockholm return

US embassy staff in Stockholm have returned to their workplace after a suspect envelope prompted an evacuation earlier in the day. "The personnel has been allowed to go back to the embassy," embassy spokesman Jeff Anderson told AFP. Staff and...

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Big Bird wants out of debate

WHAT do a Navy mum, Big Bird and AARP have in common? They want US President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney to leave them alone. Both candidates are encountering cross words from third parties they've mentioned in their campaign ads,...

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