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US consumer borrowing rose $17.5 billion in March 05/08/2014 05:06am • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers increased their borrowing in March by the largest amount in more than a year, using their credit cards and taking out more auto and student loans.Consumer borrowing increased $17.5 billion in March, up from a gain of $13 billion in F HK graft trial of billionaire brothers opens 05/08/2014 03:50am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- Two billionaire brothers and the former senior Hong Kong official they're accused of bribing have pleaded not guilty as their high profile corruption trial got underway on Thursday.Property developers Thomas Kwok and Raymond Kwok were arrested by anti California museum to return statue to Cambodia 05/08/2014 02:06am • PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The Norton Simon Museum has agreed to return a 10th century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country's genocidal civil war in the 1970s."Temple Wrestler," a sandstone figure missing its hands and feet, has been displayed at the museum for Lights! Camera! A Swiss museum for Charlie Chaplin 05/07/2014 03:14pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) -- Memories of Charlie Chaplin will live on above the shores of Lake Geneva, where new generations will get a chance to be introduced to one of the silver screen's greatest comic geniuses.Chaplin spent his last 25 years on his 14-hec San Diego Zoo giant panda recovering from surgery 05/07/2014 01:53pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Gao Gao, one of the San Diego Zoo's three giant pandas, was recovering Wednesday from surgery to remove his right testicle because of the presence of a tumor.The one-hour procedure Tuesday was a success, and veterinarians were hopeful Gao Gao would make a full recovery, zoo officia Neill told he won't be on Australia WCup roster 05/07/2014 01:30pm • SYDNEY (AP) -- Long-time captain Lucas Neill has been told he will not be on Australia's World Cup roster.Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou said Tuesday the 36-year-old defender will not be on the 30-man preliminary roster to be announced next week.Neill made his Australia debut in 1996 and has 96 in Slowing Chinese economy likely to pinch US, too 05/07/2014 05:32am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- After watching China narrow the U.S. lead as the world's largest economy, Americans might be tempted to cheer signs that the Chinese economy might be stumbling.Any schadenfreude would be short-sighted.In an interconnected global economy, bad news f Glance: Alibaba's tentacles into Chinese retail 05/06/2014 10:00pm • The Associated Press Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse that filed to offer its shares to U.S. investors Tuesday, has stretched its tentacles deep into China's other major Internet companies.Its mainstay retail businesses, accounting for 83 percent of its $6.51 billion in revenue in t Jamaica gets new lending program from World Bank 05/06/2014 09:41pm • DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica will receive $510 million under a new four-year lending program that is part of an economic reform initiative led by the struggling country's government, the World Bank's Caribbean director said Tuesday.At a news conference in the cap Woods says he's healing slowly from back surgery 05/06/2014 06:30pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Tiger Woods described his recovery from back surgery as a "very slow process" that offered him no timetable on when he can return for a summer filled with big championships.Woods already missed the Masters, choosing to have microdiscectomy Lawyers: Top court rulings favor McDonnell defense 05/06/2014 03:30pm • ALAN SUDERMAN RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Supreme Court's determination that many limits on big-money political contributions violate constitutional free-speech rights have undermined the federal government's case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, his lawyers argued in court filings Monday. Education gets top billing on Capitol Hill 05/06/2014 03:14pm • KIMBERLY HEFLING AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers looking ahead to the November elections are putting renewed focus on education, tackling issues on Capitol Hill this week ranging from expanding charter schools to paying off student loan debt.And, a House committee will examine how h College graduation: 4 ways things have changed 05/06/2014 02:11pm • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- There's still plenty of pomp and circumstance, inspiring words from lofty speakers and tossing tassels, but graduating from college today is very different from a generation or so ago.Here are four things today's college graduates may experience that h Virginia co-op receives improvements financing 05/06/2014 12:31pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- An electric cooperative serving Virginia's Eastern Shore and Smith Island in Maryland has received a $30 million federal loan guarantee to make improvements.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Tasley-based A & N Electric Cooperative plans to build or improve 196 miles of li Africa's emergence poses choice for US ties 05/06/2014 12:30pm • LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Traveling from lush green hilltops to hot dusty roads and seaside ports, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked African nations last week to make a choice: Choose democracy. Embrace economic stability. Reject violence, and move people i