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Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for dealing with the continent's nearly 3-year-old debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending. But what does it mean for the average European? Imagine paying sales tax of 23 percent or more. Or having your wages cut by 15 percent. Or, if you're in Ireland, both. Austerity comes in many forms: higher taxes, fewer state benefits, more job cuts, working longer until retirement, you name it....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the military from a crippling wave of budget cuts next year, a key House committee voted Monday to cut instead food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Early voting has wrapped up ahead of Indiana's primary election, with the Republican Senate race between Sen. Richard Lugar and a tea party-backed state treasurer not grabbing voter interest like the Democratic presidential primary did four years ago....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Go"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny....

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case say they now believe the alleged assault that ultimately led to football coach Joe Paterno's firing took place a year earlier than they first claimed....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Army investigators said Monday they found no bullet wound or evidence of foul play in the death of a soldier in Afghanistan who died during a Skype video chat with his wife....

The US foils a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", American officials say.

Blackburn are relegated to the Championship after losing at home to Wigan, whose Premier League status is secure for next season.

CAIRO (AP) -- Militants who have vowed allegiance to al-Qaida attack security forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula close to Israel and enjoy unchallenged control of two border towns. Radical Islamists in Cairo chant anti-US slogans and dream of turning the most populous Arab country into a religious state....

CAIRO (AP) -- Militants who have vowed allegiance to al-Qaida attack security forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula close to Israel and enjoy unchallenged control of two border towns. Radical Islamists in Cairo chant anti-US slogans and dream of turning the most populous Arab country into a religious state....

NEW YORK — The heirs of the man who helped develop the formula for Pepsi are suing the soda company over their right to share with the public documents detailing their father's invention.

The daughter and son of Richard Ritchie say PepsiCo Inc. is interfering with their ability to market ...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- The leading Democratic candidates in the race to take on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a historic recall election made their final pitches to voters Monday, touting their records while steering clear of any last-minute attacks on each other or the first-term Republican governor....

The attorney for a 101-year-old billionaire donor whose money is at the center of John Edwards' corruption trial told jurors Monday that his client knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave the former U.S. presidential candidate was not a campaign contribution.