As the GOP presidential primary race hurtles to Florida, the candidates will be confronted with a question central to the health of the state’s still weak economy: What are their plans for solving the housing mess? Read full article > >
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BATAN, Brazil — Priscila da Silva once asked her grandmother why she had 12 children, and the answer was simple: “Because I wanted to.” These days, Silva, like many women in Brazil and the rest of Latin America, has other plans. At 24, she thinks about having one child, if that. “The situation today is different, and raising a child is difficult,” said Silva, slicing tomatoes at a restaurant that she founded with four other women, only one of whom has planned a family of any size. “This is another time, and it’s not the same.” Read full article > >
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Birth rate plummets in Brazil
One of the architects of the euro, Jacques Delors, says it was flawed from the start, as his plans for economic co-ordination were never followed.
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Delors: Euro flawed from launch
DES MOINES — Herman Cain’s Iowa campaign headquarters exuded a palpable lack of buzz Tuesday afternoon. The few staffers occupying the low-slung building at the edge of a shopping center here had just heard their candidate announce on a conference call his plans to “reassess” his candidacy after yet another woman stepped forward with allegations of personal misconduct. Read full article > >
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The (re)rise of former House speaker Newt Gingrich in the 2012 Republican presidential race has re-started a debate over his at-times-tumultuous personal life and how much it could — or should — impact his chances of winning the nomination. The facts are these: Gingrich has been married three times. He and his first wife, Jackie, divorced in 1981. (The circumstances surrounding the split up — including a debate about whether Gingrich informed his wife of his plans during a time when she was hospitalized — remain a point of debate.) Read full article > >
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Newt Gingrich’s marriages: Should they matter?
Four Georgia men arrested this week in connection with a scheme to conduct an attack with explosives and a deadly toxin were partly inspired by an online novel, according to court documents. But their plans, experts said, may not have ever escaped the realm of fantasy. From al-Qaeda to neo-Nazis, numerous groups have imagined carrying out a deadly terrorist attack using the highly lethal extract of the castor bean known as ricin. None has succeeded. Read full article > >
Changes to the rules on succession to the throne move closer as David Cameron shares his plans with the 15 other countries who have the Queen as their monarch.
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Royal succession changes proposed
In his U.N. speech this week, President Obama vowed to support the democratic transitions in the Arab world with greater trade and investment, “so that freedom is followed by opportunity.” But his effort to back up that promise has run into hurdles in Washington and the Middle East. Congress still hasn’t passed two programs Obama announced in May to help the emerging Arab democracies: economic development funds and a $1 billion debt relief package for Egypt. While they got partial approval from a key Senate committee this week, the plans have gotten a cool reception in the House. Read full article > >
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NEW YORK — No labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose. The lockout is about to start inflicting damage on the preseason schedule — and neither players nor owners can say what will happen to the real games. The league will cancel training camps and some exhibition games Friday after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with its players, a person with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the league had yet to announce its plans. Read full article > >
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Barack Obama tells the Palestinian president he will veto a bid for UN membership, but Mahmoud Abbas says he will not drop the plans.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, will resign from his leadership post in January. The Tennessee Republican, who has served as Republican Conference Chairman for nearly four years, announced his plans in a letter to colleagues Tuesday morning. He noted that he plans to run for re-election in 2014. Read full article > >
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Lamar Alexander to resign from Senate leadership in January
US President Barack Obama outlines his plans to cut the US deficit by a further $3tn and kick-start economic growth.
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Obama outlines US deficit plans
Cyprus says it has begun exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean in defiance of Turkish anger at the plans.
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Cyprus begins controversial drill
Critics have renewed their attacks on the overhaul of the NHS as Parliament prepares to debate the plans.
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Cynthia Bennett used to go running and hiking with her husband. She thinks often of their plans to retire out West, to build a home where their grown daughters could visit them. She misses their everyday conversations, she told a Loudoun County judge Wednesday. Nearly 2 1 / 2 years after she and her husband were viciously assaulted while taking an early-morning walk, Bennett, 57, spoke publicly about the attack’s aftermath in a Loudoun County courtroom — describing in powerful detail the lasting impact of her husband’s murder and her ongoing struggle to recover from injuries that left her hospitalized for months. Read full article > >
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