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Times Online Business, 27.12.08 00:36 UTC

Doubts increase over Barack Obama's ambitious spending promises

Barack Obama is expected to spend so much propping up the world’s biggest economy in 2009 that the national debt will balloon by an astonishing $2 trillion (£1.36 billion). It is $2 trillion ...

Los Angeles Times, 20.12.08 05:32 UTC

Next Obama must put his centrist Cabinet to work

The team of politicians and technocrats lacks a strong ideological bent, but they might have the technical skills to carry out his ambitious agenda.

Daily Mail, 20.12.08 00:03 UTC

End of the Eldorado dream: A plunging pound and property crash have left thousands of expat Britons on the breadline

As a successful entrepreneur, it was nothing but Prada and Versace for Angela Nolan, a woman who had so many designer shoes her friends joked that she'd give Imelda Marcos a run for her money. So ...

guardian.co.uk, 07.12.08 00:32 UTC

Hospitals face NHS health checks

. Marie Edwards holds a photograph of her daughter Jazmine, one of nearly 30 babies who died after surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA NHS hit squads will swoop on ...

Los Angeles Times, 05.12.08 06:32 UTC

Barack Obama's grass roots in search of new turf

There's a spirited, sometimes secretive debate over how to make the best use of the president-elect's broad volunteer network. Not everyone's happy with early hints about the direction.

Los Angeles Times, 04.12.08 04:31 UTC

Insurers propose universal, centralized healthcare

Several consumer groups criticize the early bid by America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group that fought an overhaul in the 1990s, to take an active role in Obama's effort to revamp the system.

Los Angeles Times, 01.12.08 05:01 UTC

Consensus emerging on universal healthcare

The prospect of bold government action appears to be accepted among key players across the ideological and political spectrum, including those who staunchly opposed the idea in the 1990s.

Times Online World News, 20.11.08 14:03 UTC

Oscar-winning film-maker brands manga-loving Japanese PM 'an embarrassment'

Japan’s most celebrated cartoon animator today condemned his country’s comic book-loving Prime Minister, Taro Aso, as an “embarrassment” who should keep his reading habits to ...