NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks sharply cut gains after climbing as much as 1 percent earlier as investors parsed comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who was speaking before Congress. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 69.11 points,... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just "Sonia from the Bronx." (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: ... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - U.S. investigators traveled to southern Russia on Tuesday to speak to the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects, a U.S. Embassy official said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and admirers worldwide are mourning Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, as the "Iron Lady" who rolled back the state and faced down her enemies during 11 years as Britain&... [Full Article]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - In Poland, speaking out in parliament is a privilege mostly reserved for lawmakers, but the opposition has skirted that regulation with the help of a hand-held tablet computer. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is able to speak and understand people around him as he recovers from a stroke he suffered in December, a doctor responsible for his medical care said Sunday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI is continuing his farewell tour with an off-the-cuff meeting with Roman priests, an annual encounter that has taken on poignant new meaning with his impending resignation. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Ukraine's newly elected parliament has chosen a pro-government speaker amid violent brawls between supporters of the president and opposition lawmakers. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Stunned that reporters were able to visit her, Liu Xia trembled uncontrollably and cried as she described how absurd and emotionally draining her confinement under house arrest has been in the two years since her jailed activist husband, Liu Xiaobo, ... [Full Article]