AFP - Asia’s developing economies must invest more in infrastructure and social welfare to promote long-term growth in a region where millions fell back into poverty during the global economic crisis, an IMF official said Monday.
AFP - Oil prices dipped to near 80 dollars a barrel in Asian trade Monday, extending last week’s losses caused by gains in the US dollar.
AP - Italy’s national carrier Alitalia said it had canceled or delayed flights across the country because of a four-hour strike Monday by pilots, flight attendants and baggage handlers.
AFP - The Spanish presidency of the European Union said on Monday it would push the bloc to agree on financial aid for Greece at a summit this week, despite reservations from EU powerhouse Germany.
AP - Fields of white cotton once stretched as far as the eye could see across the fertile Mississippi Delta, but now many of those acres are flush with green corn stalks.
AP - Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president’s pen. Such a moment has come.
AP - German data show that the country’s exports to China rose by 7 percent last year despite an overall decline that saw it lose its status as the world’s biggest exporter to the rising Asian power.
AP - Oil prices dropped to near $80 a barrel Monday in Asia, extending losses from Friday as a monthlong rally fizzled out.
AP - The House has passed key changes to its just-approved overhaul of health care legislation. The changes are part of a prearranged agreement to guarantee passage of the historic legislation.
Reuters - The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Sunday approved President Barack Obama’s bid to implement what would be the biggest overhaul in decades of the federal student loan program.
