Top headlines:
Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada: Volkswagen and its Touareg 2 head to Mexico for the Baja 500. ›07:00 16 Oct, Tue
GM, Chrysler, credit unions expand loans: General Motors and Chrysler say theyre both expanding deals that offer low-cost loans and special pricing incentives to credit union members to all 50 states. ›21:05
Gellman: A Letter to a Bigot: What I want to say to a person of prejudice. ›22:12 12 Oct, Fri
No trial for elderly Nazi hit man: A German court ruled Wednesday that an elderly former Nazi hit squad member is medically unfit to stand trial for the World War II reprisal killings of three Dutch civilians. ›20:05
Melamine found in more U.S. infant formula: The FDA says the industrial chemical melamine and a byproduct cyanuric acid have now been detected in four of 89 containers of infant formula made in the United States. ›20:37
Larry Craig, Hall of Famer: Not even a sex-sting arrest and an on-again, off-again guilty plea can keep Idahos senior senator from induction into the pantheon of Gem State greats. ›17:40 12 Oct, Fri
'Mercenary is a Slanderous Term': The founder of Blackwater defends himselfand his company. ›03:32 13 Oct, Sat
Q&A: Hip Size and Breast Cancer Risk: A new study shows that having a mom with wide hips could be a risk factor for breast cancer. ›15:16 8 Oct, Mon
Army sorry for 'John Doe' letters to survivors: The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." ›21:38
Cars: Wheres the Perfect Part?: In the past, finding the perfect part for a classic-car restoration meant joining enthusiast clubs, hanging around swap meets and pawing through junkyards. How the Web has revolutionized the hunt. ›16:21 9 Oct, Tue
Did Earth's twin cores spark plate tectonics?: It's a classic image from every youngster's science textbook: a cutaway image of Earth's interior. The brown crust is paper-thin; the warm mantle orange, the seething liquid of the outer core yellow, and at the center the core, a ball of solid, red-hot iron. Now a new theory aims to rewrite it all by proposing the seemingly impossible: Earth has not one but two inner cores. ›19:56 6 Jan, Tue
Obama hails 'extraordinary gathering': President-elect Barack Obama has returned to the White House for a private sit-down with President George W. Bush, less than two weeks before their official transfer of power. ›19:28
Scorned ex posts vandalism photo on MySpace: A scorned 21-year-old told her ex-boyfriend that he couldn't prove she was the one who vandalized his apartment on three occasions but then, police said, she posted a picture of the damage on MySpace. The woman was charged with two felonies for the vandalism. ›02:37
Canadian polygamist leader arrested: The leader of a polygamous community in western Canada who has admitted having numerous wives and dozens of children has been arrested. ›21:45
5 reasons to be cautious about stocks: With the stock market up 25 percent from November lows, a lot of individual investors are asking: Is this rally for real? ›21:02
Obama pledges to tackle government spending: President-elect Obama says he'll have to juggle the competing interests of economic stimulus and deficit control, but that restoring general business health must come first. ›19:39
Bikers strap on fruit to dodge helmet law: Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. ›15:41
U.S. soldier ordered to leave Canada: The first woman soldier to flee the U.S. military for Canada to avoid the Iraq war said Wednesday that Canada is deporting her this month along with her husband and their children. ›20:12
Newsweek: Why saving now hurts the economy: Our savings are finally rising but not because the United States has suddenly become a thrifty nation. It's happening because after years of spending everything we earned, there is suddenly no money available for consumers to borrow and no money safely stored away for us to fall back on. ›17:36
Doris Lessings Nobel Prize: The unpredictable curmudgeon has written about everything from feminism to sci-fi to cats (twice). ›15:18 12 Oct, Fri
Oil plunges on worries about demand: Energy prices plunged across the board Wednesday after a government report showed U.S. oil reserves were much greater than expected, suggesting demand continues to fall. ›20:15
Can the Youth Vote Save Obama?: With the Hillary juggernaut growing in strength every day, Barack Obama is hoping Iowas youth can help keep him in the game. ›14:47 8 Oct, Mon
Satyam scandal could be 'India's Enron': The head of Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, disclosing that profits had been falsely inflated for years. ›16:42
Cool Cars We Miss: Gone but not forgotten—a shortlist of cars we loved and still miss. ›07:00 18 Oct, Thu
