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NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A New York City maternity-ward nurse with tuberculosis may have exposed as many as 1,500 patients to the disease.

DETROIT, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Financially ailing Ford Motor co. has put another $2 billion into Jaguar Cars, a loss-making British unit.

DETROIT, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Honda Motor Co. plans to start exporting Acura TL cars made in Marysville, Ohio, to China within months.

LONDON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- AstraZeneca PLC, Europe's third-largest drug maker, will pay $210 million to buy Britain's KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a cancer medicine company.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- New home sales in the United States last month were weaker than expected at an annualized rate of 1.245 million.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. retailers are bracing for a big Dec. 26, a Monday that stands to be busier than usual since it falls on Hanukkah, an important Jewish holiday.

HONG KONG, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Tommy Hilfiger Corp., a global fashion brand, is being sold to a prominent buyout shop for $1.6 billion.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- New orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods in November posted one of the biggest monthly increases on record, jumping 4.4 percent.

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, is appealing a $172 million California jury award stemming from disputes over lunch breaks.

TORONTO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Arcelor SA, the world's second-biggest steel maker, made an unsolicited $4.2 billion offer for Canadian rival Dofasco Inc.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A Missouri study finds that most breast cancer survivors recover emotionally with surprising speed.

NASHVILLE, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A study finds that parents in the United States tend to be at least as depressed as non-parents.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Scotland's ban on smoking is being extended to private homes, with people told not to light up for at least an hour before government workers visit. Stronger regulations limiting smoking take effect March 26. Officials say that health-care workers and oth

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A new U.S. study finds that women with lupus can safely use oral contraceptives.

ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Mayo Clinic investigators have found that some kidney cancer patients are not likely to respond to a potential treatment drug.