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Amid threats of a shutdown and allegations of bullying, talks between The Boston Globe's unions and its owner continued early Monday _ well past a midnight deadline _ as the sides sought to agree on $20 million in concessions to keep the newspaper open. The...

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Warning as Morgan Tsvangirai says unity government is 'broke'State schools in Zimbabwe have been ordered to slash their fees in a bid to stave off the collapse of the country's education system, it was reported today. The move came after Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister, admitted that the unity government he formed with his rival, President Robert Mugabe, was 'broke' and could not meet union demands for higher wages.Zimbabwe's Sunday Mail newspaper said David Coltart, the education minister, had recommended that state schools should cut their fees when they open for a new term on Tuesday because many parents could not afford them.'I cannot divulge the figures at the moment because the recommendations are going to Mugabe, Tsvangirai and deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara on Monday,' he was quoted as saying. 'However, what we want are substantial cuts.'The government set school fees in state schools at between $20 and $280 a term two months ago, but many parents have failed to p

Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50 on Sunday with two further cases confirmed in Germany, health officials reported, amid signs of a slowdown in the spread of the virus. With Germany rep...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boston Globe may learn its fate Sunday as management and a key union try to hash out concessions that parent company New York Times Co says are crucial to keeping newspaper alive.

The Boston Globe has extended its deadline till midnight on Sunday for the unions to make $20 million in concessions in order to save the paper, a statement issued Saturday morning at 1am said.

BOSTON (AP) -- Labor union leaders at The Boston Globe continue to meet with representatives of the newspaper's owner, The New York Times Co., about contract concessions management says are needed to keep the Globe running....

How do Republicans react after losing Sen. Arlen Specter, who has been a GOP senator for 29 years? They come out fighting. Senators took to the floor this past week to denounce President barack obama's 'American Civil Liberties Union agenda' on national security, and to rail against the budget, which passed the House with no republican support. Is this a winning strategy?

He later became the first black music director of a major network TV series, 'Here's Lucy.' Marl Young, a musician who was instrumental in the merger of the all-black and all-white musicians unions in los angeles in the early 1950s and two decades later became the first black music director of a major network television series, 'Here's Lucy,' has died. He was 92.