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The unemployment rate for college graduates (that is, those holding at least a Bachelor’s degree) is only 4.3 percent.

Claims for unemployment benefits last week rose more than expected, hitting their highest level in more than two months. In addition, manufacturing in a key northeastern region fell more quickly than expected, developments that may pressure the Federal Reserve to try to stimulate business activity.

In the latest Bloomberg News Poll on the 2012 election, Republican and Republican-leaning Independent voters favor Texas Gov. Rick Perry over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but in the poll's entire sample, the public still favors President Barack Obama over any GOP nominee.

The Scandinavian country of Denmark is staging a fascinating general election in which the nation’s faltering economy is expected to serve as the principal issue facing voters.

Mikhail Prokhorov, who most Americans know as the New Jersey Nets' eccentric, jet ski-loving owner, is causing a stir in Mother Russia. Prokhorov, who is the country's third richest person, abandoned his Kremlin-backed Pravoye Delo (Right Cause) political party on Thursday, calling for others to join him.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, is poised to become Denmark’s first female Prime Minister.

Todd Palin has issued a full-force criticism of a new book about his wife, Sarah, stating that the book is full of disgusting lies and condemning author Joe McGinniss.

The two politicians had strong words for Moammar Gadhafi, wherever he is hiding, saying that is it time to give up.

While public schools have focused their energy on training students in math and reading since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the College Board announced SAT scores in combined reading and math this year have dropped to their lowest point since 1995.

The app remains available outside of France.

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Paul has repeatedly denied that he is a racist (as have his devoted supporters).

What's up next for Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor, regarding the 2012 presidential election? Palin came into prominence when she was selected by John McCain to be his vice presidential candidate in 2008. She has now associated herself with the Tea Party movement in the U.S.

France and Germany have assured to support continued membership of Greece in the euro zone with the Greek Prime Minister vowing to persist with austere cuts in the struggling country’s budget.

Swiss bank UBS AG has said that it has suffered a $2 billion loss stemming from unauthorized trading even as London police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position.

The former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, who is expected to make an entry next year into the Republican race for 2012, is facing politically devastating allegations about her past. A new book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, authored by Joe McGinniss, alleges that Palin used cocaine and marijuana, had a one-night stand with NBA star Glen Rice and had a long term affair with one of her husband's former business associates.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.

Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.

In common parlance, members of any family which reigns by hereditary right are often referred to as royalty or royals. Some countries have abolished royalty altogether, as in post-revolutionary France and Russia. But in many countries they still command significant power.

The future of the James Webb Space Telescope project was almost in peril until Wednesday when the U.S. Senate proposed to revive the $6.5 billion instrument.

Joe McGinniss' book titled The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, alleges that the former republican Vice Presidential candidate had an affair with then-University of Michigan star basketball player, Glen Rice, in the 1980s, snorted cocaine, had an affair with her husband's business partner for six months and smoked pot in college with a professor, according to a report in the National Enquirer.

Massachusetts House approves casino gambling 123-32.

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Crime statistics from 2001 and onward have been published in an online database, city officials said.

Study shows that climate change might harm California beaches, as well as the state’s economy.

The Italian parliament gave final approval on Wednesday to a much-altered austerity plan aimed at stemming a debt crisis engulfing the euro zone's third largest economy.

Concern about the economy has pushed President Barack Obama's approval rating below 50 percent in California, a state assumed to be an easy win for him in next year's presidential election.

In a joint press release, two U.S. Senators accused the Obama administration of inflating the projected costs for NASA's Space Launch System in an attempt to kill development of the program.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was forced to slide down the emergency chute out of United Airlines Flight 586 at Washington Dulles International Airport on Wednesday.