Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's Olympic stadium, is recovering from brain surgery in Europe after being assaulted by an officer who broke into his hotel room in August. Mr. Ai has been a critic of China's handling of its 2008 earthquake.
In addition to banning flash orders, which give some traders a split-second advantage, regulators are also seeking new limits on the credit rating industry.
President Obama on Thursday announced a reconfigured system that won’t be based in Poland or the Czech Republic, and will be aimed at intercepting Iranian missiles.
A vivid and surprisingly surprising show of more than 130 paintings and drawings from the first two decades of O’Keeffe’s long career, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
AP - Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West Virginia to firefighters in New York.
AP - As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fiefdom.
AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the anti-government rhetoric over President Barack Obama's health care reform effort is troubling because it reminds her of the violent debate over gay rights that roiled San Francisco in the 1970s.
A pint-sized version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with similarly powerful legs, razor-sharp teeth and tiny arms, roamed China some 125 million years ago, said scientists who remain startled by the discovery. The predator, nicknamed Raptorex, lived about 60 million years before the T. rex and was slightly larger than a man, scientists said.
Raymond J. Clark III, charged with murder in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, was smart, amicable and loved his dog, say those who knew him. Clark, 24, the same age as Le, was a technician in the school of medicine's Animal Resources Center, where Le's body was found stuffed in a basement wall.
A Colorado resident at the center of a federal terrorism probe met with FBI agents for a second day Thursday as his lawyer disputed a report that bomb-making plans were found on the man's computer.
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