Organizers hope the Women's World Cup soccer tournament will increase interest in the sport, but more than half of Germans questioned in a recent poll could not name a single player on the national team.

Lesson No. 1 of networking: You can't accomplish great things alone.

The world clawed its way off a financial precipice two years ago, says a new report, but major nations still have to do some important work to put the global economy on a sound footing.

AP - Military intelligence officers were scrambling a year ago to collect and analyze the social, economic and tribal ins and outs of each valley and hamlet in Afghanistan.

AP - Rebels in Libya's western mountains said Sunday they are advancing and are battling Moammar Gadhafi's forces in a town southwest of the capital, ramping up pressure against government troops on a second front.

AP - Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters rallied across Yemen on Sunday, demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh's powerful sons and other members of his inner circle leave the country.