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If only it were the $64 million question. The taxpayer bill for rescuing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could turn out to be the $64 billion question.

Or more - or less.

Billions of pounds of wasted paper products are being recycled into energy-efficient homes.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau proposes a new standard for digital video commercials, hoping to add a few more billions to the $21 billion online ad market.

The government may have to give a taxpayer guarantee to billions of pounds of mortgage market bonds, the BBC learns.

The UAE says it is cancelling the entire debt owed to it by Iraq, a sum of almost $7bn (£3.5bn) including interest.

Sen. Barack Obama on Monday proposed spending billions to revitalize the nation's economy, a plan the campaign of his likely Republican opponent said would slow economic growth with higher taxes.

A BBC investigation estimates that about $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.

Corrupt officials are creaming off about $120bn a year - equivalent to a third of the national budget, a Russian prosecutor says.

AP - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says $15 billion to $20 billion is needed each year to boost food production to combat hunger.