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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Criminals were seconds away from robbing a bank by remote control when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, Swedish investigators said Wednesday. The would-be robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his …

LONDON – The engines failed to respond on the British Airways plane shortly before it crash landed at London’s Heathrow airport, a preliminary accident report said Friday. Two miles before touchdown, the engines did not respond for a demand to increase thrust, according to the report by Britain’s Air Accidents …

WASHINGTON – Democrats controlling Congress are leaving grim decisions on automatic tax increases to the next president and the newly elected Congress under a freshly negotiated House-Senate blueprint for the upcoming budget year. The fiscal 2009 budget plan worked out in private talks between House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt …