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She received a telephone bill, and immediately noticed something wrong. The number showing how many euros she owed had the decimal point in the wrong spot and an extra 12 zeroes added. She owed 11 quadrillion euros.The company finally relented it was a mistake.

Rumors about the former Cuban leader's health have swirled on social media for the past day, but Fidel Castro's son says the 86-year-old is just fine, exercising and going on with his everyday activities.

Willow Tufano's life over the past few months was sort of surreal. She got caught up in two dramas: America's housing market and America's media circus. Now she's trying to get her own reality show.

Though the gap between spending and revenues has narrowed, it has stayed above the $1 trillion mark.

The U.S.-China economic relationship is under pressure again with allegations from the House Intelligence Committee that two top Chinese telecom firms are security threats. China responded by saying the report could damage relations with the U.S.

The first two debates of the 2012 election cycle have had stratospheric viewership on TV.

Fact checkers have raised some flags about some of the claims the candidates made regarding Medicare. Ryan tried to insist that his Medicare plan is bipartisan, while Biden at one point may have confused Medicare with Medicaid.

Why is insurance employer-based? What kind of health care options would young women face under a President Romney? NPR's health policy correspondent breaks down the issues you want to know about leading up to the election.

Alvin E. Roth, of Harvard University, and Lloyd S. Shapley, of University of California, Los Angeles, were given the award "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."