Lindsey Vonn, America's darling-in-waiting for the Vancouver Olympic Games, says she's doing everything she can to overcome a shin injury, including some unusual measures.
Google announced plans Wednesday to built a high-speed fiber-optics network. The move is limited to small communities for now, but could eventually bring Internet prices down and transform the broadband industry.
In the mid-Atlantic region, many roofs are straining under the weight of record snow. On Wednesday, part of a roof for a storage building owned by the Smithsonian Institution collapsed.
As the storm cleared, the East Coast struggled through its aftermath: snowbound airports, federal agencies closed, and schools outside New York City still shuttered or set to open behind schedule.
AP - Worst winter ever? The second blizzard in less than a week buried the most populous stretch of the East Coast under nearly a foot of snow Wednesday, breaking records for the snowiest winter and demoralizing millions of people still trying to dig out from the previous storm.
AP - Hundreds of thousands of pro-government demonstrators gathered Thursday in one of Tehran's main squares to mark the 31st anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution as Internet speeds dropped dramatically around the capital in government efforts to foil counter-demonstrations.
AP - The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in January increased 15 percent from the same month last year, and a surge in cash-strapped homeowners who've fallen behind on mortgages could be on the way.
Now Zad is a town again. In just two short months the small farming community in northern Helmand Province has turned around faster than anyone expected. In December 1,000 Marines and Afghan security forces moved into Now Zad in an operation designed to wrest control from the Taliban. Captain Andrew Terrell's Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines led the fight in an operation dubbed "Cobra's Anger." Its effect was almost immediate.
Authorities in Iran imposed a virtual information blockade Thursday as the country braced for an onslaught of anti-government protests on an important national anniversary.
A massive storm canceled or delayed flights in several cities, kept federal workers home for a third straight day in Washington and taxed local government budgets.
In the country that ranks second in the harvest of coca, the plant whose leaves are used in the production of cocaine, the idea to get Peruvian farmers to plant alternative crops is not new.