President-elect Barack Obama took his recovery package to Capitol Hill, working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending.
The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff tried to hide at least $1 million in assets from government investigators, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday.
President Bush has authorized an immediate airlift of vehicles and equipment to bolster the international peace-keeping mission in the conflict-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.
The city will install windshield-mounted cameras, similar to the "black boxes" in aircraft, which will record data on vehicle use, road accidents and other information in and around cameras.
NASA expected its two Mars rovers to survive only three months in the dusty and freezing Martian conditions. But Saturday marked the five-year anniversary of the first robot's landing.
High manufacturing costs, declining demand for luxury goods in the current economic downturn, and a weak dollar overstretched the finances at the Irish maker of luxury crystal and ceramics.