NEW EURO MEMBER LATVIA BRINGS DIRTY MONEY HEADACHE
Associated Press In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, newly minted Latvian Euro coins in are laid out for display in Riga, Latvia. When Latvia adopts the euro on…
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$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE
FOR — USE MONDAY, DEC. 30, 2013 AND THEREAFTER – FILE – In this July 23, 2013 file photo, United Nations peacekeepers search a house suspected to have been used…
LACK OF CUSTOMERS DOOMS MANY CUBAN BUSINESSES
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and ANNE-MARIE GARCIA People talk as they stand in a street blocked by a broken down classic car in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The Associated…
IMMIGRATION FEARS SPARK POLITICAL FIRESTORM IN UK
By SYLVIA HUI Recent editions of Britain’s Daily Express and Daily Mail newspapers, featuring headlines about immigration, are photographed in London, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. For months, Britain’s tabloids have…
OBAMA SIGNS BIPARTISAN BUDGET DEAL, DEFENSE BILL
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama speaks to members of the military and their families in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, in Kaneohe Bay,…
HEALTH CARE DIVIDES SOME REPUBLICAN SENATE RIVALS
By BILL BARROW FILE – In this March 20, 2010 file photo, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaks to people demonstrating against the health care bill on the U.S. Capitol steps…
TO CLEAN UP COAL, OBAMA PUSHES MORE OIL PRODUCTION
By DINA CAPPIELLO In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, construction continues at the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb, Miss. The power plant is designed…
RUSSIAN OLIGARCH MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY A FREE MAN
FILE In this Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 file photo Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, looks from behind glass at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday…