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Number of travellers hits an all-time low; 'Canada's not a cheap place to come to'

The GAO says the Tennessee Valley Authority must bolster its cybersecurity, citing risk that the power company's critical ops could be hacked

A Senate hearing weighs charges that speculation by big investors and sovereign wealth funds is behind the rise in commodities and energy prices

Arab mediators have announced a breakthrough deal between feuding Lebanese factions to end Lebanon's 18-month political crisis. Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said at a ceremony Wednesday in Doha that the agreement is be "carried out...

Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry. They learned valuable lessons from wrongheaded investments in the 1970s oil boom, but economists...

The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned. Cell phone companies routinely charge customers $175 or more for quitting their...

Last year, borrowers took out more than 132,000 reverse mortgages - 50% more than the year before and almost 10 times as many as five years ago. Such loans, as you may already know, allow you to draw down your home equity if you're 62 or older without repaying it as long as you stay in your house.

As a girl in South Korea, HyoJung Kim did her schoolwork on brownish-gray recycled paper and rarely threw things away because government-mandated garbage bags cost $1 apiece.

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Some of the worst economic conditions in the country are where John McCain can least afford them -- in electoral battleground states crucial to Republicans' chances of hanging onto the White House.