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5 spring trends from London Fashion Week 09/17/2014 03:28pm • SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- They came, they saw, and now they've jetted off to Milan for another round of catwalk shows.Fashion insiders got a taste of spring style trends at London Fashion Week. Here's a round-up of some of the hottest looks, from girly ballerina skirts to sporty san Alibaba risk: China's rise leaves out investors 09/17/2014 04:18am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- American investors are clamoring to buy a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is launching what may prove the biggest initial public stock offering ever.But history is stacked against them.China's explosive economic rise has delivered Alibaba risk: China's rise leaves out investors 09/17/2014 04:18am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- American investors are clamoring to buy a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which is launching what may prove the biggest initial public stock offering ever.But history is stacked against them.China's explosive economic rise has delivered 8 Tacky Job Search Faux Pas 09/17/2014 12:00am • Get some class!There are good, bad and straight-up ugly ways to job search. The last route involves zero tact or self-awareness, and it often rubs both current and prospective employers the wrong way. Job seek with some grace. U.S. News asked career and etiquette experts to reveal tremendously tacky The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store 09/16/2014 04:30pm • The Associated Press App Store Official Charts for the week ending September 15, 2014:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Minecraft - Pocket Edition, Mojang2. Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon3. Goblin Sword, Eleftherios Christodoulatos4. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.5. Afterlight, Afterlight Collective, Inc6. Parking meters may be coming to Friendship Heights 09/16/2014 12:05pm • Curbside parking meters may be coming to three roads in the Friendship Heights section of Chevy Chase. Ken Hartman, Montgomery County government’s point person in Bethesda, outlined a preliminary plan for the meters along Wisconsin Avenue, Friendship Boulevard and Willard Avenue during a m Mixed-Use Development Coming To Grosvenor Metro Station 09/16/2014 11:00am • Metro on Monday selected a developer with a long list of local projects to build about 550 new units and ground-floor retail at its Grosvenor-Strathmore station in North Bethesda. Streetscape Partners, which built the Symphony Park at Strathmore townhomes just north of the station, won the bid to b 10 Major Changes to College Admissions in 30 Years 09/16/2014 12:00am • The Evolution of College Admissions Choosing the right school and applying to college may seem like a complicated process, but it's easier today than it was before U.S. News & World Report released the first Best Colleges rankings in 1983. Today, students can use the college rankings and Google Will Apple's digital wallet kill the card swipe? 09/15/2014 04:52pm • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple wants the plastic credit card to become as rare as the paper check.On Tuesday, the company announced Apple Pay, a digital payment system that lets people pay for retail store purchases using their phones rather than cash or credit cards. The s Hong Kong rethinks rules after Alibaba IPO loss 09/15/2014 11:36am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- Alibaba's choice of New York over Hong Kong for its blockbuster IPO was a blow for the Chinese financial center. Now, the city's stock market is starting to rethink rules that stopped it from accommodating the Chinese e-commerce giant's unique managem 23andMe CEO navigates health regulation 09/15/2014 07:30am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- No Silicon Valley company better embodies the promise and the pitfalls of working in health care than DNA testing firm 23andMe. Launched in 2006 to a flurry of media coverage, the Mountain View, California-based company seemed to have every strateg How to recognize and overcome vaginismus 09/15/2014 12:00am • Tasniya Sultana was beginning to think she was created, she says, "without a hole." The 23-year-old Baltimore native grew up in a traditional Muslim household where sex was never discussed, and even getting her period was a mystery. Sultana couldn't use tampons, and when her husband tried to p Correction: Treasure Hunter Fugitive story 09/14/2014 09:30pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- In a story Sept. 13 about a treasure hunter being sought as a fugitive, The Associated Press reported erroneously that bank wraps for $10,000 bills were found in his mansion after he failed to appear at a hearing. The bank wraps were for $10,000.A corrected version of the stor Style goes digital as London Fashion Week opens 09/14/2014 12:36am • SYLVIA HUI Associated PRess LONDON (AP) -- What to wear to London Fashion Week? The hottest designer heels, the latest fall jacket -- or perhaps a tech accessory like Google Glass.Hundreds of models, stylists and fashion insiders descended on the British capital Friday as the five-day whirlwind of c Many obstacles stand in Rice's path to a comeback 09/13/2014 04:44pm • EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer It's an enduring fact of life in the NFL: If a player has talent, a team will find a place for him, no matter how bad his off-the-field profile might be.Ray Rice is putting that maxim to the test, as much for the deed he did as the fact that it was documented in a stom