As her children grow, author Melissa Fay Greene decides to extend parenthood by adopting five more.

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Dunkin' Donuts IPO announced. But private owners of parent company won't say when, or how many shares will be created for the Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts IPO.

AP - From the heart of the shocking terror strike on America, President Barack Obama will try to bury the memory of Osama bin Laden by honoring those who died in the fiery Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In private talks with families and a somber ceremony at ground zero, Obama is out to let New York have its own moment of justice.

AP - Osama bin Laden's death has Congress pointing fingers at Pakistan and many in the Obama administration expressing thinly veiled exasperation. But it probably won't mean the breakup of a marriage of convenience that is maddening to both the U.S and nuclear-armed Pakistan. The alternative would be worse.

AP - The Syrian army began a gradual withdrawal Thursday from a southern city at the heart of the uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, 11 days after President Bashar Assad unleashed tanks and snipers to crush dissent there.