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By Paul Taylor  "All political careers end in failure," the late British Conservative Enoch Powell famously said. And perhaps all political cycles end in scandal. The outcry in Britain over politicians' expenses

By Raji Menon and Joel Dimmock The death of Rio Tinto's tie-up with Chinalco is the latest in a recent string of revolts by institutional shareholders who on Friday took a concerted

By Rajkumar Ray and Manoj Kumar  India's president said on Thursday that the new government would revive economic growth and help millions of poor with higher spending and expansion of social programmes,

By Andrew Stern Laird had hoped to retire comfortably some day from the machinist's job he has held for 30 years, but his western Illinois manufacturing plant is closing and he now

Economic factors to watch as Iran votes on whether to give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term on June 12 INFLATION Peaked at nearly 30 percent in October 2008 from about 11

By Fredrik Dahl and Hashem Kalantari In a way, Iranian restaurateur Mohsen Misaqi notes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fulfilled the promise to put oil wealth on the table of every family that

Will help improve workers’ incomes, well-being Overhauling the U.S. healthcare system to contain soaring costs and expand medical coverage to the uninsured would help boost U.S. economic output, lower budget deficits and

By Deborah Charles When Jim Hann learned he would be laid off, he scheduled surgery to donate a kidney to his wife. Steve Drake rationed his asthma medicine after he was let

By Glenn Somerville and Simon Rabinovitch  U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has a chance next week to persuade anxious Chinese authorities their investments in huge and growing volumes of U.S. debt securities

By John Whitesides The U.S. Congress has started work on a broad overhaul of the healthcare system in a rare spirit of optimism, but brewing battles over its cost, scope and structure