Some 400 students attended Obama's town hall meeting in Shanghai, China, Monday. But Chinese censors blocked Facebook and YouTube, limiting coverage to local TV and China's official news agency.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned at UN food summit in Rome that 6 million children die of hunger a year, but critics say new money to tackle the problem is unlikely.
Officials managing the multibillion-dollar bailout of the insurance giant may have overpaid other banks to wind down A.I.G.’s business relationships, a government watchdog says.
Teodoro Nguema Obiang enters the country easily, although officials suspect that his wealth comes from corruption tied to his father’s regime in Equatorial Guinea.
AP - For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.
AP - Hot sauce and a comb were all an al-Qaida suspect in New York needed to nearly kill one of his guards nine years ago. The bloody episode suggests that security worries in bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects to trial here could be just as big inside the courthouse as outside.
AP - Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.
A body believed to be missing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was found in North Carolina, police said. Her mother was charged with trafficking and other offenses.
The United States and China do not have to be at odds, despite the challenges facing them, President told students at a town hall meeting today in Shanghai.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 25 years after he was treated for Hodgkin's disease, a spokesman at his company Vulcan Inc. told CNN on Monday.
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