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Deutsche Lufthansa AG cabin staff voted Monday to go on strike in an effort to secure more pay and better working conditions, their union said.
Iraq's oil minister says crude oil prices are not "profitable and fair" for oil producing countries and should be increased.
The agency that runs the Portland-Boston Amtrak passenger train plans to erect a maintenance facility near its Portland train station to provide shelter for crews that are working on the trains.
Connecticut's Catholic bishops are condemning a bill that they claim would strip the church over control of its finances.
Merck & Co Inc said on Monday that it would acquire Schering-Plough Corp for $41.1 billion, uniting the makers of cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin in the second megadeal for Big Pharma in weeks.
China's navy will renew an anti-piracy mission to the Gulf of Aden when the current commitment expires in the coming months, a naval top officer was quoted as saying by state media on Monday.
The Bank of England can control the threat of inflation generated by its radical new policy of creating money, the bank's deputy governor said in a commentary published Monday.
Natural gas giant Gaz de France went on trial for manslaughter Monday over an explosion in an apartment building in eastern France in which 19 people died.
A roof collapsed at a mostly vacant retail plaza in Rochester, N.H., but no one was injured.
West Haven police say five Milford teenagers have been arrested after a weekend vandalism spree in which 65 vehicles were damaged.
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Warren Buffett said on Monday the U.S. economy had "fallen off a cliff" but would eventually recover, although a rebound could kindle inflation worse than that experienced in the late 1970s.
A key bridge in Richmond that is getting the first of Vermont's share of the federal stimulus money is closed for repairs for the next four months.
The head of the agency that insures bank deposits said Monday it has plenty of money to cover any failures this year.
A Warren man is dead after his car went off the road and rolled into a brook.
Zimbabwe's prime minister says "no foul play" in car crash that killed his wife.
A southern Vermont business executive wants to lead the Vermont Democratic Party. Paul Millman, president of Chroma Technology in Rockingham, has announced his campaign for the chairmanship the state party.
Montgomery County police say 16 people were arrested after a fight broke out during a concert held to promote nonviolence and to remember a Silver Spring teen killed last year.
The European Central Bank has the room to cut interest rates again from current record lows but the onus to stabilize the global economy now rests more with governments, regulators and the financial industry, executive board member Juergen Stark said Monday.
The suburban St. Louis pastor who was gunned down while delivering his Sunday sermon was known for helping his church's membership grow by the hundreds in two decades and was smart, "bouncy" and easy to relate to -- so much that everyone simply called him "Pastor Fred."
Sen. Joe Lieberman has changed his tune on Barack Obama. After campaigning across the country for Republican John McCain in 2008 and attacking Obama as naive, untested and unwilling to take on powerful special interests, Lieberman now showers praise on the popular new Democratic president.
Cal Coburn Brown surprised investigators with his reply to this routine question at the end of a lengthy police interview: Anything else you want to tell us?
Leading Senate Republicans are critical of the Obama administration's approach to the banking crisis, saying some of the big banks in trouble ought to be shut down.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California are talking to farmers from around the country Monday amid debate over meat labeling.
Embarking on arguably his most complex political fight yet, President Barack Obama is using skills honed during his presidential campaign and lessons learned from past failures to try to overhaul the health care system.
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