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Nearly 500 Korean immigrants working to build a battery factory in Georgia were arrested.

Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district has become the first place in Japan – and all of East Asia — to recognize same-sex partnerships. It raises the possibility other parts of Japan will follow.

The University of Oklahoma released the results of its investigation into Sigma Alpha Epsilon Friday. The university began the review after a video surfaced of its members singing a racist song.

With many companies slow to hire, it will take a long time to get back to the kind of healthy job market Silicon Valley once had. Still, a lot of people are seeing new signs of life in the economy, and they're more optimistic than they were a year ago.

Snow leopards are an endangered species native to Asia. They're also one of the official mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. So when Russian scientists found one of the rare cats earlier this month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the time to visit the animal. The World Wildlife Fund had said the leopard should be released into the wild. Which it was, right after Putin and the cameras took their leave.

Supporters of the health care overhaul want to make it unrepealable and say public support for it will grow as its benefits become more tangible. Opponents are focused on keeping the law unpopular until Election Day 2012.

Census data released this week revealed that Detroit lost nearly 250,000 people in the past decade. That's roughly one person every 22 minutes, according to a local analysis of the numbers. A smaller population means less federal funding.

Wally the Beer Man is a fixture at Minnesota Twins baseball games. He even has his own trading cards and bobblehead doll. But he got in trouble when police accused him of selling alcohol to a minor. The beer salesman said he was set up in an unfair police sting. A Minnesota jury found him not guilty.

Someone snatched Mark Bao's laptop but the 18-year-old had a program that automatically backed up his files on remote servers. When the thief used the server, his files were transmitted to the backup site. Bao was able to track down the thief and contacted police.

Get your brackets ready. Foreign Policy offers their own version of March Madness — the Democrats versus the dictators. Who will win?