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The 52-year-old mother of four turned to prostitution, working the streets of Hunts Point, a neighborhood of warehouses and repair shops that straddles a busy expressway, in the Bronx.

Thailand's central bank has left interest rates on hold at 3.5%, despite calls for them to be cut to help the economy recover from the worst floods the country has seen in decades.

Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple and industry icon for decades, has died, according to the AP. Here's the statement from Apple:

As a global debate intensifies over heavier taxes on the rich, the family of Emilio Botín, a powerful Spanish banker, is trying to explain a Swiss bank account that went undeclared for decades.

The growing trend in recent decades toward more casual dress in offices and other workplaces means three-piece suits are out for the most part.

Financial pressures may have led a New Zealand coal mining operation to overextend itself before an explosion killed 29 workers last year, an energy executive testified Monday at an inquiry into the country's worst mine disaster in decades.

An Italian town that has been the home of high-end accordion makers for decades has survived by focusing on quality.

May 20 -- The Pentagon is enlisting contractors such as Boeing Co. to reduce its $22.9 billion annual corrosion bill, a growing problem in sensitive new weapons and old warplanes kept airborne decades beyond expectations.

Flights partially resumed out of Lambert Airport Sunday after the area's most powerful tornado in decades ripped off part of the roof and shattered hundreds of windows at the main terminal.

There's a worrisome uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades.