Portugal OKs bailout, yielding to investor pressure. Also, retailers sales, Cisco's strategy, and the Masters tee off – and Callaway's woes – will be on investors' radar screens.

Antarctic meteorite: a new mineral has been discovered in a known Antarctic meteorite first discovered in 1969.

Digital books are under consideration by Potter author Rowling. Current digital book versions of Harry Potter are pirated copies.

AP - With time growing short, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that he remains confident that a government shutdown can be avoided this weekend if negotiators can build on constructive talks held at the White House.

AP - The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business loans and government-backed mortgages during peak home buying season.

AP - Japanese police raced Thursday to find thousands of missing bodies before they decompose along a stretch of tsunami-pummeled coast that has been largely off-limits because of a radiation-leaking nuclear plant.