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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - State workers angry at a government austerity plan walked off the job shouting insults, the vanguard of a nationwide effort to disrupt the national economy for a day. Trash piled up uncollected, public buses failed...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - State workers angry at a government austerity plan walked off the job shouting insults, the vanguard of a nationwide effort to disrupt the national economy for a day. Trash piled up uncollected, public buses failed...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - It's no longer on the front page of every newspaper. Few are talking about it in the streets. The average Bolivian seems little affected. The health of Bolivia's 75-year-old leader appears to have become an afterthought.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - It's no longer on the front page of every newspaper. Few are talking about it in the streets. The average Bolivian seems little affected. The health of Bolivia's 75-year-old leader appears to have become an afterthought.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - It's no longer on the front page of every newspaper. Few are talking about it in the streets. The average Bolivian seems little affected. The health of Bolivia's 75-year-old leader appears to have become an afterthought.

ZUG, Switzerland (AP) - A Swiss man with a grudge against local officials sprayed assault rifle fire and set off an explosive during a session of a state parliament Thursday, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

ZUG, Switzerland (AP) - A Swiss man with a grudge against local officials sprayed assault rifle fire and set off an explosive during a session of a state parliament Thursday, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

ZUG, Switzerland (AP) - A Swiss man with a grudge against local officials sprayed assault rifle fire and set off an explosive during a session of a state parliament Thursday, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

ROME (AP) - The anti-Taliban alliance in northern Afghanistan and the former Afghan king agreed Monday to convene an emergency council of tribal and military leaders as a first step toward forming a new system of government in their country.

A week after the devastating terror attacks, and a day after a steep drop in stock prices, New Yorkers were back at work Tuesday in the now heavily guarded financial district.

CHAMAN, Pakistan (AP) - One group headed east, running from war. The other group was going west to find it.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Trinidad-born British writer V.S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for ``perceptive narrative'' in his writings about travels in India, Africa, Iran and elsewhere.

AIROLO, Switzerland (AP) - Extreme heat thwarted attempts by firefighters Thursday to tackle a blaze that turned the world's second-longest road tunnel into a deadly inferno, killing at least 10 people.

Despite widespread protest over the proposal, Turkey has decided to make Hagia Sophia, formerly the seat of Eastern Christianity, into a mosque.