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The once-majestic 17th-century Palazzo Manfrin, one of this city's most important architectural sites, is falling apart. Its white neoclassical facade is crumbling, several wooden doors are splintering, and its floor-to-ceiling frescoes have faded from age and water damage.

The manufacturing industry contracted for the first time in three years last month, according to private data released Monday, raising concerns that the turmoil in Europe is dimming what has been a bright spot of economic growth at home.

Storm-related outages at an Amazon data center in Ashburn prompted some congressional officials on Monday to question whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector cloud computing servers.

Incoming World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Monday that the agency was poised to boost lending to poorer countries if the world economy worsens and that he would consider sending teams of experts to Greece if the government of that struggling country requested help.

Google sought to defuse a wide-ranging antitrust investigation in Europe on Monday with a proposal addressing claims that the company was using its power over the Internet search market to squeeze competitors in other industries.

Incoming World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Monday that the agency was poised to boost lending to poorer countries if the world economy worsens and that he would consider sending teams of experts to Greece if the government of that struggling country requested help.

The manufacturing industry contracted for the first time in three years last month, according to private data released Monday, raising concerns that the turmoil in Europe is dimming what has been a bright spot of economic growth at home.