AP - A man was executed Monday for killing a teenager by slashing her throat with a box cutter.

AP - EDITOR'S NOTE — Once strictly cloistered, the Carmelite nuns of Elysburg, Pa., allowed an Associated Press writer-photographer to spend a day observing their ancient routines.

AP - A police officer who was shot in the heart early Monday during a car chase ignored the wound and helped try to catch the gunman before dying later at a hospital, authorities said.

AP - A police officer who was shot in the heart early Monday during a car chase ignored the wound and helped try to catch the gunman before dying later at a hospital, authorities said.

AP - Tai Shan, the giant panda cub, showed Tuesday that he is a quick study, prancing about in his den and otherwise mugging for hordes of camera crews in this city that's a veritable fishbowl for celebrities.

AP - The six dogs that fatally mauled a 76-year-old woman showed no signs of having been used in fights, and felony charges against their owner are unlikely, authorities said.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - An Arkansas man convicted of murdering a teen-age girl in 1993 was executed on Monday, but only after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed the lethal injection three times to consider last-minute appeals.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran rockers the Rolling Stones will perform during the 2006 Super Bowl half-time break, show sponsor Sprint Nextel Corp. said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The producers of 'American Idol' said on Tuesday they reached a deal with the Fox television network for up to six more seasons of the broadcaster's ratings mainstay.

AP - Cardinal William Keeler made a rare prison visit to pray with a convicted killer awaiting execution next week and tell him that Roman Catholic leaders are seeking clemency for him.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia Gov. Mark Warner said on Tuesday he would announce soon whether he will stop the execution of a convicted murderer who would be the 1,000th person put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. cable and satellite television industry is not doing enough to help parents shield children from inappropriate content, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So little in Washington is black and white that all it takes is a tiny panda cub to captivate the entire U.S. capital.

ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

AP - In an attempt to boost its stalled economy, the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans is starting the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city.

AP - A power outage Tuesday affected a large area of Detroit's east side and shut down a tunnel connecting the city with Canada.

AP - A University of Kansas religion professor apologized for an e-mail that referred to religious conservatives as 'fundies' and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a 'nice slap in their big fat face.'

AP - Authorities are searching for the parents of a 3-month-old girl who died last year after her parents allegedly gave her lethal doses of vodka to quiet her crying, police said.

AP - A 9-year-old boy who was shot in the back while shielding his little brother during an attempted break-in got a trophy from police and his school principal to honor his courage.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. programs to help countries choke off terrorist funds are hamstrung by turf battles, leadership squabbles and confusion over available funding, the investigative arm of Congress said on Tuesday.

AP - Tai Shan, the giant panda cub, showed Tuesday that he is a quick study, prancing about in his den and otherwise mugging for hordes of camera crews in this city that's a veritable fishbowl for celebrities.

AP - Thousands of customers on Detroit's east side temporarily lost power on Tuesday, and a tunnel connecting the city with Canada was shut down for about two hours.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans, battered by a hurricane and then swamped by floods, is getting ready for the return of visitors, senior city officials said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.. on Tuesday broke ground on a new $2.4 billion headquarters tower in lower Manhattan, an important step toward reviving the neighborhood's fortunes and bolstering New York's claim as financial capital of the world.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Surveying the glass and steel skyscrapers that compose the downtown Houston skyline, France's 'Spider-Man' on Tuesday acknowledged the only way he'll scale them is by elevator, like everyone else.

AP - Refugees from the war that tore apart the former Yugoslavia are being asked to offer drops of blood for DNA testing in a bid to identify some of the more than 26,000 victims found in mass graves or dumped in forests.

AP - Returning an Ohio man accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard to his native Ukraine would be like throwing him "into a shark tank," his attorney argued in court Tuesday.

AP - Tai Shan, the giant panda cub, showed Tuesday that he is a quick study, prancing about in his den and otherwise mugging for hordes of camera crews in this city that's a veritable fishbowl for celebrities.

AP - First, a liquor store was vandalized by a gang of men in suits and bow ties for selling alcohol to blacks. Then, days later, the store owner was kidnapped, and the business was burned down.

AP - Tropical Storm Epsilon formed Tuesday in the central Atlantic and could cause dangerous surf conditions in Bermuda over the next few days, forecasters said.

AP - The teenage son of a tribal chairman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a criminal charge for his role in shootings that left 10 people dead on an Indian reservation last March.

AP - A man linked to a black Muslim group was among two men who turned themselves in to police Tuesday for their roles in vandalizing a pair of stores for selling alcohol to blacks, police said.