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Congress will allow interest rates on student loans to double on Monday to 6.8 percent for more than 7 million students.

The sudden run reversed the record pace ETFs were on for annual inflows to a record month of outflows.

Police evacuated a neighborhood in Mahopac, N.Y., Thursday evening after they discovered a home stockpiled with hand grenades, ammunition, firearms and a tank.

Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party has called for a summer of protests.

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, and 3 others, will face trial for hacking cell phones at the former News Of The World.

Thanks to My Coke Rewards, a customer loyalty program from The Coca-Cola Company, you can snag yourself a free McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burger with just a click of a button.

The bogus website "YourTDBank.com," was hosted by Electric Embers Cooperative Inc.

Ding was chosen for his close ties to cabinet members and his agriculture finance management experience.

A plan to invest $500 million in tourism announced, Myanmar projects 7.5 million visitors by 2020.

Just a day after Ooredoo was awarded the telecom license, the company's future in Myanmar is looking less than promising.

Natural gas companies welcomed the hike as a spur to greater investment in the sector.

A severe locust infestation in Madagascar is devastating the country's crops, bringing the risk of a serious food crisis, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says.

The Chinese government is trying to slow down lending due to fears it’s causing major asset bubbles.

Fed Governor Jeremy Stein Friday told the Council on Foreign Relations that the asset purchase program will continue.

Serbia could become the 29th nation in the bloc, if talks scheduled to start in January 2014 go well.

Chinese official auditor Liu Jiayi told a top political committee that combined provincial debts have climbed to 3.85 trillion yuan.

The White House is looking for the next U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, and the field is wide open right now.

People travelling by air could soon strike off one more annoying process from the hassle that modern-day air travel has become.

Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, posted a surprise loss Friday, and its stock plunged.

A Vatican cleric was arrested on Friday for trying to smuggle 20 million euros in to Italy from Switzerland on an Italian government plane.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Ministry replied to the White House's suspension of the country’s special trade status (which doesn’t affect textiles).

Microsoft’s new Windows 8.1 Preview is now available for download, but there are some aspects that users need to know before installing it.

The outlook for Vietnam is altogether grim: its debt-laden banks are in crisis and Hanoi does not have the money to recapitalize them.

Investors now sense that the Fed's tapering may not be as soon as September, given Q1's tepid 1.8% U.S. GDP.

The department store chain settled a Justice Department case regarding how it re-certified its legal immigrant guest workers.

Lukoil says it expects the West Qurna-2 field to start producing oil by 2014.

The Pentagon attracted fresh criticism for buying 30 helicopters for an under-staffed Afghan unit from a blacklisted Russian arms dealer.

Scenes of smog-choked cities -- a China staple -- could soon be replicated in Indian cities.

The CFTC's David Meister believes the ex-New Jersey governor and former Goldman Sachs CEO used customer money for bogus deals.