The US women scored a big curling upset over Britain Saturday. We're here to explain how they did it, from draws to the button to hammers in the extra end.
The social safety net was built for short-term gaps between jobs, but work may be scarce for years, even as the American economy shows signs of a rebound.
The Sunni political party whose two most prominent leaders were disqualified from next month’s elections because of supposed ties to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party called for a boycott.
AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.
AP - Coming soon to daytime television: America's long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.
AP - Republicans who may want President Barack Obama's job flocked to the town they love to hate this weekend and repeatedly ripped into the Democrat, an early tryout of sorts for the GOP nomination.
A younger brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the strongest Afghan Taliban commanders whose fighters concentrate on Kabul and eastern Afghanistan, was killed when a missile fired by a CIA drone struck a car in which he was travelling, according to a Pakistani intelligence officer and a local resident. The drone strike occurred Thursday in North Waziristan, the base for the Haqqani network and for many Arab and Taliban militants who fight in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The headlines get more lurid. Friday's Israeli paper Maariv declares on its front page "Dubai Plans Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu." Thursday the head of the Dubai police investigation General Dahi Khalfan Tamim said he was almost certain Israel's intelligence organization Mossad was responsible for the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh. Meanwhile despite the continuing official silence over the affair in Israel analysts believe no lasting damage will be caused by the diplomatic fallout.
The diabetes drug Avandia is linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks, and manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years, a Senate committee report says.
The new credit card law promises more transparency about bills. But cardholders still need to watch out for a whole new series of traps and tricks, CNNMoney reports.
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