The UK's economic recovery is expected to show a sharp slowdown when GDP figures are released later, with analysts expecting third quarter growth of 0.4%.
An Arizona judge blocked the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan scheduled for Tuesday, on the grounds that the state has not been forthcoming. The state immediately appealed the ruling saying the judge made faulty assumptions and had disregarded provisions of the execution protocol.
Anonymously financed groups are starting a coordinated final push to deliver control of Congress to Republicans, shifting money among some 80 races they are monitoring.
Voters in Larimer County, which will play a pivotal role in Colorado’s elections, express hard-to-pin-down moods and seek reassurance about their direction.
AP - President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses.
AP - The Democratic candidate for Rhode Island governor, widely seen as more conservative than the independent seeking to lead the heavily Democratic state, said Monday that President Barack Obama can "shove it" after learning Obama would not endorse him.
AP - President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush's gloves-off approach to interrogations and detention — but a flood of leaked documents suggests that some old habits were hard to break.
The mayor of a seaside town in the Naples area of Southern Italy has shot to national fame -- and been ridiculed in cyberspace -- after announcing that he would ban what he deems anti-social behavior to raise standards of public decency. If the regulations are approved at today's city council meeting in Castellammare di Stabia, local police will fine anyone in town wearing revealing clothes: miniskirts, low-cut jeans or deep-plunging blouses.
A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al-Qaida militant pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders.
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with criminal homicide after forensic tests showed her to be the mother of four infants whose remains were found in her home, officials say.
Was off-duty federal agent Will Clark brave and chivalrous, or did he overreact when he intervened in a heated domestic argument and shot a man five times?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Monday he has received cash from Iran. He said the U.S. knows about it and does the same thing in doling out cash.
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