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Diane Alter – AHN News Trivia Writer
New York, NY, United States (AHN) – It is not just gays who are cheering New York’s law legalizing gay marriages that passed over the weekend. The state’s tourism industry is also applauding the move, with many advertising gay marriage specials. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to launch “NYC I Do,” a campaign selling the city as a premier gay wedding destination. Specials are already spreading across the state. The Le Parker Meridian has a “Love has No Boundaries/Born This Way” wedding package. A report in May from the New York’s [...] Continue Reading…

Workers at Standard Chartered Plc’s South Korean banking unit plan to go on strike today in the worst labor dispute involving foreign banks in the Asian nation in more than five years.
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Michael J Morsella – Celebrity News Service Contributor
Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – Legendary rocker Peter Frampton has filed for divorce from Christina Elfers, his wife of 15 years. According to TMZ, Frampton filed in an L.A. County Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. Frampton wants joint legal custody with primary physical custody going to Elfers. They have one minor daughter together named Mia who is an actress. Elfers also has an adult daughter named Tiffany from a previous relationship. Frampton rose to fame with the 1975 hit “Baby I Love You Way,” [...] Continue Reading…

Linda Young – AHN News Writer
New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The United States economy grew at a slow 1.9 percent pace during the first quarter of the year a slowdown in growth that Federal Reserve policy makers hope will only be a temporary. In contrast, the economy grew at a more robust 3.1 percent rate in the previous quarter. Still the 1.9 percent figure was better than the 1.8 percent rise in gross domestic product predicted for the first quarter by government officials last month. Real gross domestic product is the total output of goods [...] Continue Reading…

Asian stocks climbed, driving the region’s key benchmark index to its first advance in eight weeks, as concern Europe’s debt crisis will hurt earnings of exporters and banks eased and the Federal Reserve said it is prepared to provide [...] Continue Reading…

A study from Experian found that 47 percent of strategic defaulters opened a new mortgage during the six months prior their defaults. “This behavior further supports the evidence that these mortgage defaulters were doing so strategically,” the report said. [...] Continue Reading…

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News
Athens, Greece (AHN) – A day after winning a confidence vote in the Greek Parliament, the country’s cabinet approved austerity measures for the 2012 to 2015 budgets and laws for the measures’ application. The measures include $40 billion (EUR 28 billion) of spending cuts, tax increases, fiscal reforms and sale of government assets. The next step for the financially challenged government is to secure the approval of the parliament where the ruling party of Prime Minister George Papandreou has enough numbers to pass the measures. However, unlike the confidence vote in which all [...] Continue Reading…

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Staff
Auburn Hills, MI, United States (AHN) – The 2012 Fiat 500 has hit the roads in the United States and has just as quickly garnered the titled Coolest New Car Under $18,000. This year, Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com editors decided to rank their Top 10 choices from 10 to 1, and they rated the 2012 Fiat 500 as the No. 1 pick on their “Cool Cars” list. The fun ride can be customized in more than a half-million ways to stylize and personalize. Kbb.com said of the Fiat 500, “Regardless of [...] Continue Reading…

Premier Wen Jiabao said that China’s efforts to stem inflation have worked and that the pace of consumer-price increases will slow, an assessment that contrasts with some economists advocating further steps.
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Diane Alter – AHN News Trivia Writer
United States (AHN) – Your closet is probably full of myriad sizes and it is not due to fluctuations in your weight. More and more designers are turning to vanity labeling, using smaller sizes and adding inches to traditional sizes, experts say. Vanity sizing is defined as “when the price increases and the dimensions decrease.” It is especially common among the more expensive and higher-end brands. A once typical size 8 may now be a standard size 4. The trend is to portray a positive attitude for shoppers when perusing, [...] Continue Reading…