Confronted by the political perils of rising gas prices in an election year, President Obama gave a speech in Florida making the case for efforts to wean the United States off imported oil.
Security forces continued to bombard areas of Homs for a 20th day, as a United Nations panel said “gross human rights violations” had been ordered by the Syrian authorities.
The Milwaukee Brewer slugger Ryan Braun becomes the first player known to successfully have a positive test result overturned and will not be suspended for 50 games.
Amid recent antigovernment protests, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin called voters to “unite around our country” less than two weeks before the election.
Protesters took to the streets in at least eight provinces on Thursday, as the Taliban called on people to take up arms against foreign and Afghan troops.
Sifrhippus, which lived 56 million years ago, shrank from about 12 pounds to about eight and a half pounds as the climate warmed over thousands of years, researchers report.
A barrage of coordinated attacks across Iraq killed at least 40 people in what Iraqi officials called a “frantic race” to shatter people’s faith in the government’s grip on security.
The Labor Department said the number of people applying for benefits for the week ending Feb. 18 stayed at 351,000, an indication of an improving job market.