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WASHINGTON – Senators backed by an alliance of manufacturers and unions blocked action Thursday on a pension overhaul bill in protest over requirements that companies with less than stellar credit ratings pay more into their pension funds. “We’re talking but we’re not getting anywhere,” said Sen. Mike DeWine (search), R-Ohio. …

SAN FRANCISCO – Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG) Thursday posted a sharp rise in quarterly profit that topped Wall Street profit and revenue expectations, sending shares of the high-flying stock 7.5 percent higher. Google reported third-quarter net income rose to $381.2 million, or $1.32 per diluted share, more than …

BEIJING – Some 2,600 birds have been found dead of bird flu in northern China’s grasslands, the government said Wednesday, amid reports of new outbreaks in Europe and Russia. Preliminary tests detected the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in samples taken from a region south of Moscow where hundreds of …