Some people have bad backs and still walk through life. Others can't get out of bed. Some people with nerve pain gobble pills. Others grit it out. And often these different reactions come from people with equal injuries. Why?
The face-off between deal-seeking home buyers and sellers reluctant to lower their prices continued last month, crimping home sales for the sixth month in a row.
The Big Three. We tend to think of the three domestic automakers–General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler–in lock step. And, yes, all suffer from common problems: aging infrastructure, outdated technology, overreliance on big trucks and SUVs, and huge healthcare and "legacy" costs that pump up the expense of every vehicle they make.
AP - Acknowledging painful losses in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is not satisfied with the progress of the long and unpopular war, but he still insisted the United States was winning and should not think about withdrawing.
AP - An angry Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disavowed a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the capital's Sadr City slum Wednesday, and criticized the top U.S. military and diplomatic representatives in Iraq for saying his government needs to set a timetable to curb violence in the country.
AP - South Korea said Thursday it will ban the entry of North Korean officials who fall under a U.N. travel restriction Seoul's first concrete move to enforce sanctions imposed after the North's nuclear test.
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its torture flights programme.
Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, died singing what sounded like a hymn, witnesses said. Rolling was executed by injection tonight for killing five college students in Gainesville in 1990. Diana Hoyt, the stepmother of one of Rolling's victims, watched him die and said she "didn't appreciate his song."
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's constitution gives gay and lesbian couples all the rights of married heterosexual couples. "The issue is not about the transformation of the traditional definition of marriage, but about the unequal dispensation of benefits and privileges to one of two similarly situated classes of people," the court said.