
Rock Hall of Fame to open Rolling Stones exhibit
The story of The Rolling Stones is so huge it takes 2½ floors of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to tell. The Cleveland-based museum will ...

Christie signs NJ Internet gambling bill into law
Get ready for betting in your jammies, at work, from the kitchen table, or at the beach: New Jerseyans — and possibly many others — will soon be able ...
Cuba says cigar sales $416 million last year
Cuban cigar sales rose last year despite the ongoing economic crisis in some of the most important European markets including No. 1 buyer Spain, ...

Morocco film searches out Jews who left for Israel
Hundreds of members of Islamist and left wing political groups demonstrated outside the Tangiers Film Festival earlier this month against a ...

2 Everest climbs put Nepalese woman in record book
Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart.
Salazar: Thousands of Interior workers imperiled
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says thousands of Interior Department workers would be furloughed, and thousands more seasonal workers would not be ...

New theater production office opens in NYC
The producers behind one of the largest comedy festivals in the world are launching a new theatrical subsidiary that hopes to become a major player ...

AP PHOTOS: Marathoner closes last race at age 101
With a saffron turban and a flowing white beard, 101-year-old Fauja Singh finished a 10-kilometer (6.25 mile) race in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the ...
Obama attends youngest daughter's dance recital
President Barack Obama has attended his youngest daughter's dance recital at an arts center in suburban Maryland. The White House said 11-year-old ...

Members of 1st U.S team to top Everest reunite
It might be hard to conceive now, in an era of extreme sports and ultra-light equipment, but there was a time when Americans who set out to conquer ...

Administration warns of impact of broad budget cut
Widespread flight delays and shuttered airports, off-limit seashores and unprotected parks. The Obama administration is painting a dire portrait of ...

APNewsBreak: National park cuts detailed in memo
The towering giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National ...

Evan Gattis wanders his way back to baseball
Spring training is all about those on the fringes. The phenoms looking to make their mark. The geezers trying desperately to hang on.

German police return smuggled artifacts to Kosovo
Seven artifacts dating as far back as 4,000 B.C. have been returned to Kosovo after German police stumbled on them in an unrelated raid, the country's ...

Obama: Hill must make 'right decisions' on cuts
President Barack Obama, intensifying pressure on congressional Republicans, said Friday that lawmakers still have "the opportunity to make the right ...

In artist's show, creation merges with destruction
It took Ryan Travis Christian four days to fill the paper sheet stretching 6½-by-30 feet and push-pinned to the white museum wall. Spreading charcoal ...

T. rex not a stand-up guy? Test your dino skills
Here's a test of your dinosaur knowledge: Did Tyrannosaurus rex stand upright, with its tail on the ground? The answer: No. But a lot of young people ...

Oscar animators ready to be taken seriously
In the animated feature film category at this year's Oscars, there's a film set in medieval Scotland, another that features old-school video game ...

Royal penguin stranded on New Zealand beach dies
A royal penguin that became stranded on a beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home has died at a New Zealand zoo. The penguin was ...
Putin's idea to house Jewish collections rejected
A U.S.-based Jewish group Thursday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion to house disputed historical collections of books and ...

Sony shows PlayStation 4 capabilities, but no box
Sony showed off what the PlayStation 4 can do, but not what it will look like. The Japanese electronics giant talked about its upcoming game console ...

Official: Calif. gunman was loner, 'gamer'
The first of three people killed in a gunman's rampage was identified Wednesday as a 20-year-old woman but police did not know why she was in the home ...

Joe Garagiola ends broadcast career after 58 years
Be it down on a baseball field or up in the broadcast booth, whether he was pinch-hitting for Johnny Carson or looking at pooches, Joe Garagiola could ...

Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science ...