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Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1 percent (AP)

Ytop stories  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 8:23am

The dollar struck a near 11-month high versus the euro on news of slumping industrial output in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and as the market awaited key US jobs data(AFP/Getty Images/File/Annie Tritt)AP - The nation's unemployment r


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Russia rolls into Georgia, rolls back the clock (AP)

Ytop stories  Sat, 08/23/2008 - 12:15pm

AP - This spring, Russian tanks and missiles rolled across the cobblestones of Red Square as soldiers in olive green uniforms goose-stepped and a military band played the revived Soviet anthem.

It was the first full-scale military display at the annual Victory Day parade in almost two decades.



 

New Orleans repeating deadly levee mistakes (AP)

Ytop stories  Sat, 08/23/2008 - 11:24am

AP - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind.