The dean of Georgia lawyers, Mr. Bell also served as a federal judge and prominent legal troubleshooter.

There is a sense of heavy reckoning on Broadway after nine productions closed on Sunday night.

As European diplomats sought a cease-fire, Israeli troops poured into Gaza City, expelling residents and shooting militants.

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.

Steven P. Jobs said that he was being treated for a hormone imbalance but would remain in his job.

Passed over for the top job, Philip Bennett decides it is time to leave.

The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff tried to hide at least $1 million in assets from government investigators, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday.

Vehicle sales plunged 53 percent at Chrysler, while G.M., Ford and Toyota all reported declines of between 31 and 37 percent from December a year ago.

Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.

A look at some of the storylines to come out of the first-round games.

Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, would take over an agency buffeted by criticism.

Hackers used Twitter's own security tools to hijack the accounts of several high-profile members, including Barack Obama and Britney Spears.

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.

Senate leaders are challenging Roland W. Burris’s appointment, setting the stage for a showdown on Capitol Hill.

The Tocho Swing Beats band, which played the Birdland jazz club on Sunday, mostly comprises city workers from the Tokyo municipal government.

The election panel’s stamp of approval is unlikely to bring an end to the fight over the Senate seat.

House members are seeking answers as to how Bernard L. Madoff was able to hide his alleged Ponzi scheme.

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.