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Increased coffee growing could compromise the country's grain basket, say experts

Members of a cocoa growers cooperative in Sikensi, 100km northwest of Abidjan

Occupy Wall Street protesters regroup in Foley Square after New York City police in riot gear removed the protesters from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday. The evacuation followed similar moves in Oakland, Calif., and Portland, Ore.

The Village of Hempstead, N.Y., sounds like a posh resort in the Hamptons. But if you ride the train an hour east from Penn Station, what you'll find is a working-class town of about 54,000 people, more than 80 percent of them African-American and Hispanic.

It's that time of year again, when parents, grandparents, and friends begin to prepare holiday toy shopping lists. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants consumers to know that while safety should be at the top of everyone's toy list, stronger federal rules are making a positive impact and restoring confidence in the safety of toys.

Judy Moses, 71, prepares to be arrested during an Occupy Chicago protest against cuts to federal safety net programs, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, on Monday.

The moon rises above Italy's finance and economy ministry in Rome on Monday.

A first group of European Union experts arrived in Rome on Wednesday to enforce special surveillance on Italy's efforts to cut its debt as Europe called for extra measures to balance the budget by 2013.

The "breakthrough" by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Oct. 25 European Union summit, proclaimed with great hoopla, was a Pyrrhic victory. It allegedly "saved" the euro by increasing investments in the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), while giving lenders a 50% "haircut" on the Greek debt and strengthening EU institutions.

(from left to right): Dr. Vernon deSa, Medical Director of Saifee Hospital; Minister Fast; and Krish Sidhu, Vice President of Development of Healthcare Resource Group.