A wave of new consumer price hikes has hit Greece as European Union finance ministers gathered in Brussels to discuss the country's debt crisis.
The center-left government has increased the main sales tax from 19 to 21 percent, as part of a euro16 billion ($22 billion) austerity package to cut the budget deficit by almost a third this year.
The tax hike came into effect …
Most cooks I know are also avid gardeners, perhaps because fresh-picked produce tastes like heaven. We all plant more than we thinkwill come up, and when it all does, we're inundated with vegetables.So each summer I teach a cooking class for anyone groaning under theweight of a too-abundant garden.
By the holidays, many of my cooking companions are searching outtheir copies of favorite class recipes. Christmas is coming up, andthat means vegetable side dishes.
Everyone has annual favorites - candied sweet potatoes, green beancasserole, creamed pearl onions. These are the givens. But thetradition in my family is to try one or two originals each year. Forthis, we need …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The big Republican gains in Congress could make it harder for President Barack Obama to keep his pledge to start bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan by next summer and dim prospects for several of his administration's centerpiece military and diplomatic initiatives.
The Republican victories seem likely to derail congressional efforts to repeal the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military, thwart efforts to curb the growth of Pentagon spending and frustrate hopes for quick ratification of a nuclear arms control agreement with Russia.
More Republicans in Washington may also mean trouble for Obama's efforts to improve …
HUNTINGTON - Stan Hill is accustomed to being in the pocket.
But not this pocket.
Instead of standing tall in the pass pocket, Marshall University'sstarting quarterback spent most of MU's first spring practice heretoday standing with his hands in his sweat pants pockets. He did takethem out long enough, though, to throw a few passes.
"I still have two more months in my rehab cycle," said Hill, whounderwent off-season surgery on his left knee. "So, I'm just outthere taking it easy."
Or so it seemed.
But the truth of the matter is the senior quarterback's pulse wasracing, his heart was pounding and his adrenalin was pumping.
"It's still …
WASHINGTON - Nine high-ranking Army officers, including four generals, made critical errors in reporting the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, but there was no criminal wrongdoing in the shooting of the former NFL player, the military concluded Monday.
Defense officials and a pair of reports released Monday on the 2004 incident, however, did not rule out criminal action by those who provided misleading information as the military was investigating the killing. They said, however, that they believed there was no orchestrated cover-up.
Army and Defense Department investigators said officers looking into Tillman's death passed along misleading …
In an April 19 story about a poll finding American support for government-paid legal services for the poor, The Associated …
