The end of $600 unemployment boost and slim…

Fancy/Veer/Corbis | Getty ImagesBianca Thomas was always working. Except on Sunday â€” that was church day.But in March, everything changed. Thomas lost her job as a prep cook in an eatery catering to Boston Bruins and…

Putin arranged a 'beauty contest' to help boost…

Business leaders and government officials from Russia and abroad are likely to get an unexpected exposure to raw political campaigning at the country's largest annual economic conference in St Petersburg on Thursday.Russia's struggling economy is…