Obama health drive clears key Senate hurdle

AFP - Monday, November 23

WASHINGTON (AFP) - - President Barack Obama's planned overhaul of the US health care system headed Sunday for another major political battle after it cleared a key Senate hurdle that allows for debate on the proposal. Full Story »

Crisis forcing hard-up Spaniards to sell their hair

AFP - Monday, November 23

MADRID (AFP) - - Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally.

EU recession over, but sharp contrasts in east

AFP - Sunday, November 22
A woman holds a sign reading

WARSAW (AFP) - - The European Union may have inched out of its sharpest recession since the global slump of the 1930s, but green shoots are not emerging uniformly across the 27-nation bloc's eastern member states.

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