
Nov 27 - By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Writer
They're getting nervous in Mayfair and Belgravia, London's hedge fund heartlands.

Jul 11 - By Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press Writer
John Tokarski III maintained a 4.4 GPA in Pittsburgh's Schenley High School, played three sports and took on leadership roles. Yet it appeared his dreams might burst: the $45,000-a-year tuition for the private college he wanted to attend was too steep.

Jun 2 - By Lorinda Toledo, Associated Press Writers
A 25-year veteran of the film industry, William Gilpin lived in Los Angeles his entire life until he moved to New Mexico at the end of 2007. The construction coordinator works on cable network AMC's hit series "Breaking Bad," about a chemistry teacher who turns to a life of drug-dealing after being diagnosed with cancer.

May 14 - By Paul Schemm, Associated Press Writer
Iraq has lost more than half the Christians who once called it home, mostly since the war began, and few who fled have plans to return, The Associated Press has learned.

Mar 3 - By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Writer
The tall 14-year-old's parents were killed when government soldiers swept into his hometown in Darfur to chase out rebels. Then Arab militias went after the survivors. That's when the teenager fled atop a truck piled with mattresses and pots.

Oct 26 - By Valerie Bauman, Associated Press Writer
Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.

Sep 16 - By Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
A power-sharing deal has not stopped the flow of Zimbabweans streaming into South Africa to escape the hunger and poverty wrought by runaway inflation in their homeland.
Aug 6 - By Mike Cranston, AP Sports Writer
It's the summer of 2010 and LeBron James is trying to decide whether to stay in Cleveland, leave for New York — or accept a deal for $50 million a year to play in Italy.

Jul 22 - By Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer
When 88-year-old Frances Greenberg walked off an El Al passenger jet and into an air-conditioned terminal on Tuesday, it was her second time trying to move to Israel.
Apr 26 - By Associated Press
Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel's founding, died on Saturday. He was 90.

Jan 18 - By Matthew Lee-130919, AP Writer
President Bush moved quickly Friday to fill a key diplomatic post with responsibility for Iran policy, nominating the American ambassador to Russia for the job immediately after his predecessor's resignation.

Dec 26 - By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer
A top Jewish community leader in Iran on Wednesday described the recent immigration of 40 Iranian Jews to Israel as a "misinformation campaign" and insisted that Jews living in the Islamic Republic were not endangered by the hard-line policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Dec 25 - By Rory Kress, AP Writer
Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic Republic for new homes in the Jewish state.

Nov 1 - By Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press Writer
A ship carrying hundreds of Jews docked in the port city of Haifa Thursday after a short trip from Cyprus that partially retraced the route of the Exodus, a legendary vessel that symbolized Jewish yearning for a homeland in Israel after the Holocaust.
May 7 - By Matthew Lee-130919, AP Writer
Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term administration — nearly two years before Bush's term ends.