US Government shutdown's Good Samaritans

Thousands of workers sent home , cancer patients denying new drugs, and marriages postponed . But the way some individuals have responded to the U.S. government has raised the spirits, said Tom Geoghegan .
Seeing Chris Cox pushing a lawnmower across the National Mall Washington , chainsaw dangling from it, one which warms the heart of many who heard about it . " If they shut down our monuments, we're still going to take the trash out , we're going to clean the windows , we're going to cut the grass , we're going to pull the weed , we're going to do the woodwork , '' he told Washington radio station .

Serbia seek loans from United Arab Emirates to avoid insolvency

Serbia is close to insolvency and must cut public salaries and subsidies to state companies to avoid it , said Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic . The government is slated to introduce today's actions designed to squeeze the deficit and shrinking public debt without affecting pensions , Pensions demand critical of the ruling party junior , said Vucic RVA TV broadcaster in an interview yesterday .

Polls claim Ilkham Aliyev's victory in Azerbaijan's presidential elections

Azerbaijan leader Ilkham Aliyev has claimed victory in presidential polls , thanks to the Azeri people for electing him to a third term . With about three - quarters of the votes counted Mr Aliyev has gained nearly 85 % , the national election commission. The president called the election a " victory of democracy " , but opposition groups alleged widespread fraud . Mr Aliyev inherited the presidency from his father in 2003 . It has stifled disagree and scrapped term limits . So confident was the victory on Wednesday , he did not run a campaign .

 "Azerbaijan will successfully continue to develop as a democracy", Mr. Aliyev said in a pre-recorded television address . "The fact that this election was free and transparent is another serious step towards democracy . "

The White House to reduce deficit or to extend the debt limit?

President Barack Obama plans to talk to Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as the pressure mounts on both sides to resolve the impasse over the federal debt ceiling and partial government shutdown .
With the ruling in its ninenth day on Wednesday , and an economy that undermines edging closer to a possible federal default , neither side shows clear signs of bending .
In the middle of the conversation is difficult , however, there was a suggestion of the possibility of a temporary truce . There were signs that both parties should be open to short-term extension of the debt limit $ 16700000000000 and end to temporarily stop giving more time to resolve their differences in their .

Is it Obamacare?

The irony of the Public Protection and Affordable Care Act (known today as Obamacare) is that one of its key provisions , the individual insurance mandate , conservative roots. In Congress, the requirement that individuals buy health insurance were the first prominent Republican health care reform bills introduced in

1993 as alternatives to the plan Clinton . The mandate was also a prominent feature of the plan passed under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in 2006. According to Romney , we get the idea of the individual mandate by [