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After poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke's mother died of cancer at 55, she worked through her grief by writing. Her memoir combines the "exquisitely personal" with research of other cultures' mourning rituals that don't ignore suffering.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NATO allies meeting in Berlin that the U.S. is prepared to do what it takes to support the air campaign against Libya, as disagreement continued over the scope of the mission and who should lead it.

ProPublica and The Washington Post report that many people appear to have cashed in as BP spent billions in the year since the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But "others hurt by the spill ended up getting comparatively little."

Ford is widening an earlier recall of its F-150 pickup trucks to about 1.2 million vehicles.

A chemical from wooden shipping pallets is believed to have tainted 57,000 bottles of Topamax, a medicine for epilepsy and migraines. Johnson & Johnson says the contaminant does not present a health hazard but can be offensive.

Two American reporters, John Glionna of the Los Angeles Times and Steve Herman from Voice of America, drove into the evacuation zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday and to the facility's main gate.

Some 2.6 million babies are born with no signs of life after 28 weeks' gestation — what's known as a stillbirth — according to a collection of papers published online this week in The Lancet. Most happen in developing countries, but they haven't gone away in wealthier nations.

On the eve of Coachella, the true nature of 10 of the summer's biggest music festivals, revealed.

By measuring the shape and size of the bones in dinosaur and reptile eye sockets, scientists say they've determined which animals hunted by night. Flying pterosaurs were largely day-living, while velociraptors stalked their prey by night.

The journalists on staff at the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun had to produce a paper by hand after the earthquake left the city without any electricity. They posted the papers outside of relief centers.