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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s economy has grown by a slower-than-expected 0.2 percent in the three months through June, dragged down by waning Chinese demand for resources including iron ore and coal. Economists had forecast 0.4 percent growth in the April-June quarter. Australia’s resource-based economy grew by 0.9 percent in the …

PHILADELPHIA – Three people were charged Thursday with running a $54 million Ponzi scheme built on promises of a green energy technology that would turn trash into fuel and “carbon-negative” housing developments, neither of which were ever developed, federal prosecutors said. Troy Wragg, 34, of Georgia, Amanda Knorr, 32, of …

SALT LAKE CITY – Ohio State University is promising to take appropriate action if any students are found to be involved in the vandalism of ancient rock art in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1IQgfT1) that school officials said Friday they are looking into whether students on a geology …