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Mobile phone giant AT&T has announced plans to buy major rival T-Mobile. If the deal goes through, AT&T would dominate U.S. telecommunications. It's reminiscent of when Ma Bell had a monopoly over the industry. Bloomberg New technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky talks to Linda Wertheimer about the concerns of a monopoly.

In the skies over Libya, NATO will take command of the no-fly zone. U.S. air and sea power will remain a key factor in keeping Moammar Gadhafi's troops from attacking. But on the ground, Libyan rebels are stalled in their efforts to advance on government forces. And civilians are fleeing the front lines of the fighting.

Muffin top joined the lexicon years ago. Now, it is among the newest words recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary. The self-proclaimed "last word on words" defines muffin top as the top part of a muffin, as well as, "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers."

When Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was a high school disc jockey, he had to get permission from a Communist youth league to play songs by the British rock band Deep Purple. Before a recent concert in Moscow, Medvedev invited the band to his home.

Yemen protests swell; president sets conditions to leave

In a new sport inspired by a French comic book, contenders match wits and fists as they battle towards the ultimate checkmate...or knockout.

Japan sees increase in radiation from damaged Fukushima plant

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 people, most of them young women. Joshua Freeman of The Nation argues that the reason we still commemorate it is because the painful event was a catalyst for change and reform.

With Jack White's assistance, Wanda Jackson sings a timeless lover's lament in "Like a Baby." Here, she performs the song with the same kind of tough-girl grit that made her a star in the '50s and '60s.

Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell talk about creating a movie based on the real-life boxer Micky Ward, who won a welterweight championship in 2000 after several years away from the boxing ring.