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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he will try to forge a global pact to buck the global economic downturn during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama next week.

Just another day and just another conservative scandal. I thought the organization around Rick Santelli's rant was a little too smooth, a little too perfectly orchestrated for something not to be very, very wrong about it. That's why it and that's why it , but I had no idea how deep this deception went. The right wing moneychangers tried once again to control the message and lie to the american people to push their agenda that only hurts america. The right wing elite hated FDR because he turned on his own class of people and put the average American worker ahead of them. They were shocked that he would care about the state of our nation over the vested interests in a very small few. I did write that Rick's behavior was indicative of most talking ...

The ruling sheiks cannot stop the global economic crisis from intruding on their lofty dreams. They can, however, try to keep it off the front pages. A draft media law could give authorities wider powers to regulate increasingly gloomy economic reporting... ...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he will try to forge a global pact to buck the global economic downturn during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama next week.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - British banking giant HSBC will try to raise $18 billion to quell investor concerns as a worsening global economy punished famed investor Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway with a 96 percent plunge in profits.

With the market slumping to fresh 12-year lows in the last stretch of February, stocks will kick off the month of March on an increasingly uncertain footing while investors try to determine where th...

GE is cutting its stock dividend by two-thirds, as the conglomerate tries to conserve cash to ride out the global economic downturn.

Brian Fairbank had tried just about everything to cut the costs of running his Jiminy Peak ski resort: he used recycled motor oil to heat its mountain operations center, developed more efficient snow guns, captured heat generated by snowmaking machines, even...

Iraq's parliament pushed back voting Saturday on this year's budget and could be forced to make further cuts because of falling oil prices. The latest delay in trying to ratify the current $64 billion budget proposal highlights the financial squeeze facing...

Men from Leeds fell into icy valley after night out in Les Deux Alpes resortTwo British tourists have fallen to their deaths in the ski resort of Les Deux Alpes, the Foreign Office said today.Richard Ryan, 27, and Christopher Lockwood, 28, fell into an icy valley known as the 'Black Coombe' on their way home after a night out, according to police in the resort. Rescuers said the men appeared to have tried taking a shortcut through an area marked by many warning signs to reach their chalet.The pair, both from Leeds, Yorkshire, were last seen by friends leaving the British-style pub Smithy's to return to their chalet at around 2am on Thursday.Their bodies were found on Friday afternoon after a 36-hour search by police and mountain rescue teams.A Deux Alpes police spokesman told a local news agency: 'Their friends alerted us that they were missing in the early hours of Thursday after they left the bar but never made it back to the chalet.'The spot where they fell is very steep and, althou