Republican Party seems as divided, angry as ever

BOSTON (AP) -- The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever. (   01/07/2013 1:55 PM )

• Dallas to tear down Oswald apartment

• Belichick not impressed by team's Texans blowout

• Mass. AG fines utility for delay in storm pay

• Small fire sends smoke into 787 cabin in Boston

Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term national security team. (   01/07/2013 1:53 PM )

• Chuck Hagel, likely nominee to lead Pentagon

• NJ man denied bail in NY police cannibalism case

• Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Calif. school

• White House, GOP draw red lines in debt debate

Berlusconi teams up with Northern League

MILAN (AP) -- Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi announced a deal Monday with the Northern League -- his fractious coalition partner in three governments -- to jointly run in Italy's election next month, a move that could give fresh impetus to the center-right and extend the Berlusconi era. (   01/07/2013 1:53 PM )

• Syrian troops repulse rebel attack in Aleppo

• British explorer embarks on Antarctica adventure

• Hearings, trial closed in Indian rape case

• Antique Spitfire plane collapses on UK runway

Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe grads

PARIS (AP) -- Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their black robes, they were like gods to me," said the 24-year-old Parisian. (   01/07/2013 1:52 PM )

• Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Calif. school

• Conn. mayor: Name school for teacher in massacre

• Sheriff thinks Conn. tragedy a factor in bomb plot

• Harvard Medical School launches series of e-books

Study: Billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Astronomers hunting for Earth-like planets now have many places to look. A new estimate released Monday suggested the Milky Way galaxy is home to at least 17 billion planets similar in size to our planet. (   01/07/2013 1:38 PM )

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

• Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others