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  • The Socialist Who Can Rattle the Global Economy

    By Patrick Smith

    At the end of a week of bad news across Europe, the French have handed the Continent another cliffhanger: In the first round of polling for the presidency on Sunday, incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy...

  • Warren Buffett Has Prostate Cancer

    By Reuters

    Warren Buffett disclosed on Tuesday that he has stage 1 prostate cancer but said his condition "is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way."

  • Briton Was Poisoned by Chinese

    By CHRIS BUCKLEY, Reuters

    The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources with...

  • EU Stimulus Debate Rages

    By Paul Taylor, Reuters

    Fierce debate is growing in Europe over whether austerity or growth offers the best strategy to overcome the continent's sovereign debt crisis. As if it were that simple

  • Obama Scorns Business Again with World Bank Choice

    By Liz Peek

    President Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank has been called “inspired.” I call it revealing. That Obama tapped Kim is not so surprising; they have much in common. They both...