Dec 23 - By Emma Vandore, AP Business Writer
President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.
Dec 20 - By Associated Press
Harlem is the historic capital of black American culture, but like many New York neighborhoods, it is rapidly changing.
Dec 16 - By Associated Press
China will change its national holiday schedule to ease overcrowding on trains, flights and other transport systems, often swamped when many of the country's 1.3 billion people try to travel at the same time.
Dec 16 - By Eddie Pells, AP National Writer
Even if baseball and the players union agreed to every recommendation in the Mitchell Report tomorrow, stemming the use of performance-enhancing drugs will be a long-term project with no easy solutions.
Nov 21 - By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer
Stuck in a crowd of about 200 other tourists, Zhong Jian and her friends waited for an hour to buy tickets for a boat cruise down the scenic Li River before giving up. Their problem: scheduling their trip during the May national holidays.
Oct 17 - By Kim Curtis, AP Writer
Gabriel Herrera was drawn to the National Guard by the poster of an infantryman rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter — and by the fact he was unlikely to see combat.
Oct 4 - By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press Writer
The basement of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at the University of Missouri-Columbia is filled with familiar fraternity icons like a well-worn pool table, stacks of violent films like "Kill Bill" on DVD, and of course, the stench of stale beer.
Aug 26 - By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.
Apr 20 - By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million — one in six factory jobs — have disappeared since the start of 2000.
Mar 9 - By Marie-Laure Combes, AP Writer
True camembert, the pungent and oozing king of French cheeses, is made from raw milk from Normandy cows, unpasteurized, unsterilized and largely untouched by modern technology. That recipe, dating back to the 18th-century advice of a priest from Brie, is under threat: One of France's elite producers wants to treat milk used for the cheese to respond to growing health concerns and competition and to appeal to globalized palates.
Jan 19 - By Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer
Here comes a new Windows operating system from Microsoft Corp. Long delayed, it's the first in several years, so the company plans an enormous marketing campaign to tout the software as a way to get more out of computers.
Dec 22 - By John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer
For one group of graduate business students at Yale, next month's lessons will take place on pineapple, banana and coffee plantations in Costa Rica.
Nov 8 - By Associated Press
A week ago President Bush said he wanted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain in his administration until the end. On Wednesday, he said Rumsfeld was leaving. Here's a look at what Bush said last Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press and others, and what he said a day after the election.
Nov 7 - By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer
The House became the engine of Democratic intentions to redirect the nation. In ending 12 years of Republican control of the lower chamber of Congress, voters ushered in an era of divided government, confrontation and less predictably conservative lawmaking.
Mar 29 - By Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press Writer
Fourteen shot at a trading company. At least 90 kidnapped at other businesses. Bodies dumped nightly, bound hand and foot, some tortured. A new brand of violence — a deadly mix of organized crime and sectarian murder — is tearing at Iraq.
Mar 7 - By Ashley M. Heher, AP Business Writer
Beth McGinley has no use for burial plots. She wants her friends to sprinkle her ashes somewhere memorable when she dies.