Mortgage lending fell 5% in November compared with the previous month and was down 10% on a year ago, lenders say.

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Mortgage freeze felt in November

Collections were up in the third quarter compared to a year ago, but still lagged behind 2008.

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Economix: States Find a Rebound in Tax Receipts

UK property sales were down 11% in October from a year ago, according to figures from HM Revenue & Customs.

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UK property sales ‘down by 11%’

After a long and horrifying ordeal, Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple who were kidnapped by Somali pirates over a year ago as they slept on their yacht 800 miles off the East African coast, were released Sunday. “I’m fine, thank you, enjoying…

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Somali Pirates Release Kidnapped Brits

A ransom of about $750,000 was paid for the release of a British couple who were kidnapped by pirates more than a year ago, local Somali leaders say.

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Two ransomed from pirates, local Somali leaders say

A year ago, it seemed possible—likely, even—that President Barack Obama would sweep into the international negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen and make serious progress on the tangle of issues at stake. The reality was quite different . This year, the expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun are less wild. read more

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For Cancun Climate Summit, Activists Consider the Long View

EAST PATCHOGUE, N.Y. – A year ago here on Long Island, Judge Jeffrey Spinner concluded that a mortgage company’s paperwork in a foreclosure case was so flawed and its behavior in negotiations with the borrower so “repugnant” that he erased the family’s $292,500 debt and gave the house back at no…

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A free house, and other N.Y. foreclosure tales

Just a year ago, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick seemed certain to lose his reelection bid. But he won on Tuesday night, defeating Republican Charlie Baker. With more than half of all precincts reporting, Patrick was up nine points.

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Deval Patrick Hangs on in Mass.

A group of US senators says a “cloud of suspicion” still hangs over the release a year ago of the man responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

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‘Cloud hangs’ over Lockerbie move