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It has taken years since the Great Recession, but wages are showing signs of climbing — though not very quickly. Economists say there are reasons to believe wage growth could continue into 2017.

The 2016 election was divisive and nasty and full of insults and innuendo. But let's look at the brighter side — here are 10 lighter moments from 2016 that weren't so bad. Some are actually funny.

They've been run over with cars, exploded by fireworks, bombarded by cannons and squished under children's snow boots. But in Australia, these baked buildings are demolished for charity — and fun.

Le Canard Enchainé is a fiercely independent weekly known for its incisive reporting and more than its share of scoops and bombshells. It continues to prosper with a format little changed since 1916.

We'll celebrate the start of a new week and a new year with Josef Suk's fanfare, "Toward a New Life."

As a New Year beckons, we'll enjoy "New Beginnings" by contemporary composer Peter Boyer.

While he was sheltering in Sweden, far from his native Estonia, Eduard Tubin worked through his homesickness by writing some Estonian Dances. We'll enjoy…

On his first trip to Italy as a young man, Richard Strauss visited all the sites on the tourist A-list, including Rome, Florence and Capri. We'll enjoy…

Brought to America by enslaved West Africans, the Carolina African runner was a defining taste of the antebellum South. Now, from just 40 remaining seeds, it's come back from the brink of extinction.

A lover of cars since he was a little tyke who later trained as a sculptor, Ed Welburn has shaped the physical world we live in as the longtime head of design for General Motors.