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U.S. steps to renew sanctions and seize a New York skyscraper linked to Iran show that President Barack Obama is no better than his predecessor George W. Bush, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday.

Washington, Nov. 14 -- The US urged North Korea on Friday to avoid taking any provocative steps following a clash earlier in the week between North and South Korean warships.

Washington, Nov. 14 -- A US judge has levied a 13-year jail sentence on former congressman William Jefferson for corruption that involved US companies and countries across a wide swathe of Africa.

In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post.

U.S. consumers are reeling from job losses, holding back on big-ticket purchases and worried that unemployment will peak at 10.75 percent in the year ahead, the director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said on Friday.

The United States will send five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to New York to be tried in U.S. federal court, a U.S. official said on Friday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian stocks and bonds will fall if market-friendly President Alvaro Uribe is barred by the courts from running for a third term next year, a ruling that would upset investors but create buying opportunities.

Last month Karen Ignagni held a conference call with reporters to announce the release of a new study commissioned by her lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). It found that the health care reform bill, then making its way through the Senate Finance Committee, would raise the cost of every family's health care by $400 a year.

Delta Air Lines Inc said on Thursday it has suspended a pilot who was charged with attempting to run down police officers with his private plane at a metro-Atlanta airport.

Russia's top general said on Thursday that problems remained in concluding a nuclear arms treaty with the United States, Interfax news agency reported, weeks before the current START agreement expires.

A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir.

Russia's top general said on Thursday problems still remained in concluding a nuclear arms treaty with the United States, Interfax news agency reported, weeks before the current START agreement expires.

U.S. President Barack Obama can add another accolade to his already long list of awards after being named the world's most powerful person in an inaugural ranking by Forbes magazine.

Michael Noer and Nicole Perlroth, Forbes.com
"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." --Napoleon Bonaparte

Vladimir Putin keeps a close eye on Russia's vital oil sector through a man who has proved his loyalty--but also has his own interests at heart.

Bill Gates said on Wednesday he believes Wall Street pay is "often too high" and that U.S. government ownership of American International Group Inc worries him because it has devalued the giant insurer.

The US decision to appoint Robin Raphel as coordinator for non-military aid to Pakistan has run into controversy over conflict of interest with latest disclosures from a lobbying firm where she worked earlier clearly stating that she had been an active lobbyist for Pakistan until a few days before her appointment.

Violence and sexual attacks against women and children in eastern Congo would increase if the United Nations ended its support for the Congolese army due to concerns over its human rights record, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday.

Steven Berglas, Ph.D., Forbes.com
You are, or plan to be, an entrepreneur. You have a plan, scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin, that will make investors salivate. You are an agent of creative destruction, and with any luck, soon to be a very rich one.

Maureen Farrell, Forbes.com
Harvey Carmichael thought he won the golden ticket back in the summer of 2004 when his company, Beneficial Holdings, marketer of weight loss and sexual-enhancement pills in Salt Lake City, Utah, landed a large order from CVS worth $1.2 million. Instead, the business sank him.