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In Pictures: Europe's love-hate relationship with the Pope
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Carmageddon hits Los Angeles: Five ways to cope
“Carmageddon” is upon us! The 53-hour shutdown of a 10-mile segment of the 405 freeway, Los Angeles’s busiest traffic corridor, began at 7 p.m., Friday evening. For months, bulb-lit billboards have warned the city of severe traffic delays, while newspapers and TV stations ask whether apocalyptic congestion will keep 500,000 travelers from getting where they need to go for nearly three days. How are Los Angelenos coping? Here are five ways:
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Blizzard conditions, from Kansas to Wisconsin, close schools (+video)
The first major snowstorm of the season shuttered schools in Missouri, and cut power to 30,000 people in Iowa. Chicago, Milwaukee, and Michigan are expecting as much as a foot of snow Thursday.
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Briefing: Catalonia's bid to breakaway from SpainAusterity's bite revives a long-running independence push for Spain's Catalonia. How likely is its success?
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Could Catalonia's vote boost Basque independence?
Sunday's regional elections in Catalonia threw new obstacles into its path for independence from Spain. The independence-minded Basque Country hopes to adopt Catalonia's lessons.
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Catalonian elections: Madrid is bad, austerity is worse (+video)
Voters in Catalonia dealt a blow to the Spanish region's ruling party, rejecting its pro-austerity economic policies despite its popular efforts to seek Catalonian independence from Madrid.
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Could Spain split up? Catalonian vote may birth independence bid. (+video)
If voters give Catalonia's leader Artur Mas strong support on Sunday, he has pledged to hold a referendum on independence from financially troubled Spain.
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Spanish government struggles to respond to home eviction suicides
In less than a month, at least five people who were about to be forcefully evicted from their homes committed suicide. The issue is galvanizing opposition to austerity measures.
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Pandas' oldest known ancestor found in surprising place
Now paleontologists reveal two sets of fossil jaws and teeth that they say belong to the earliest member of the giant panda lineage discovered yet. The fossils were recovered from a pair of sites in northeast Spain.
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Anti-austerity strikes rack Europe, but will they foment change?
Hundreds of thousands of workers marched in Spain and Portugal as part of a general strike to force leaders to rethink austerity measures. Workers also showed their discontent in Germany, Italy, Greece, and France.
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Anti-austerity strikes spread across Europe, lead to arrests, canceled flights
Arrests, and canceled flights are seen across Europe on Wednesday as millions of workers went on strike to protest against spending cuts they say have made the economic crisis worse.
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Argentines flood the streets in antigovernment protests
In the largest antigovernment demonstration in years, Argentines protested the crime, corruption, and inflation they attribute to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration.
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Spain loses title as Moroccans' land of opportunity
Moroccans seeking economic opportunity used to flock to Spain, but with its economy tanking, Spain has less and less to offer them.
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Lorca 5.1 earthquake: Blame Spain's farmers and their deep wells?
Spain's worst earthquake in 50 years may have been triggered by farmers drilling deep wells to water their crops, says a new study. With the rise in 'fracking,' man-made earthquakes are a focus of seismic study.
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EU critics slam Nobel Peace Prize decision
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has been met with disdain by so-called euroskeptics, who view the 27-nation blog as both impotent and meddlesome.
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Bond downgrade puts pressure on Spain for bailout request (+video)
Even though Standard & Poor's dropped Spain's bond rating to just above junk status, making a bailout request likely, Germany remains opposed to acceding to a bailout prematurely.
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Barcelona vs Madrid: Battling on the soccer field and off
Spanish soccer rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid tied in a brilliant match yesterday, which was representative of a political battle as well: The Catalonian government is pursuing independence.
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Mars rover finds surprisingly pleasant weather during day, deadly cold at night
Temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.
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September manufacturing growth lifts stocks
Stocks got a boost from the latest manufacturing report, which showed growth in September. The manufacturing report came out half an hour after trading began, and sparked Monday's jump in stock prices.
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Space boat could voyage on Saturn moon Titan's lakes
Titan, the largest of the more than 60 natural satellites of Saturn, is covered in seas, lakes and rivers of methane, and hosts a thick atmosphere, making it one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system.
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Unemployment in eurozone stalls at record 11.4 percent
Unemployment in countries that use the euro stayed at 11.4 percent in August as more than 34,000 people lost jobs. The record high unemployment rate has renewed concerns that efforts to reduce debts have sacrificed jobs.
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Asian markets cheer Spain's plans for reform (+video)
Asian stocks edge up as debt-laden Spain unveils budget plans with sharp cuts in government spending. Euro and Japanese yen climb while dollar falls.
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World markets recover as Spain, Greece brace for austerity
Th mood in the financial markets improved slightly Thursday, though investors remained concerned about violent protests in Greece and Spain over planned austerity measures. Worries that the Spanish government is losing control continued to hurt that country's markets.
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Europe unrest reverberates on Wall Street
A dip in home sales and unrest in Europe sent stocks sliding Wednesday, extending the longest losing streak for the S&P 500 since mid-July. European stocks had their worst day in months as unrest threatened to boil over in Greece.
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Spain's troubles worsen, sparking new phase for euro crisis
Spanish stock prices fall 3 percent Wednesday as Spain's bond rates rise above 6 percent and demonstrators take to the streets to protest anticipated cuts in government spending.
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Amid Madrid protests, Catalonia bumps up elections in independence push
Catalonian leader Artur Mas moved up elections to force Madrid – already dealing with Spain's social and economic upheaval – to authorize a referendum on Catalonian secession.
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Will the Occupy movement dissolve Spain's parliament? (+video)
Some 6,000 of protesters gathered outside Spain's parliament in Madrid to protest austerity measures and to call for the ouster of Spain's current government .
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