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A data analyst listened to decades of Billboard's top tunes and discovered that a once-ubiquitous compositional tool, the key change, has all but disappeared from modern hits.

Paying doctors to prescribe particular drugs is illegal. But drugmakers pay some doctors to talk with their peers about prescription drugs.

The upcoming hearings regarding the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol are reminiscent of another watershed political event: the 1973 Watergate hearings.

British Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach says the Kremlin's improved naval capabilities pose a risk to communications and Internet cables that would be an economic catastrophe if severed.

The acclaimed Concertgebouw Orchestra issued a warmly worded statement Tuesday saying its disagreements with the conductor have been resolved by both parties.

Also: NBC's Richard Engel escapes captivity in Syria; private equity firm Cerberus is selling its stake in the company that makes the rifle used in the Newtown shootings; 22 Illinois fraternity students charged after pledge dies of alcohol poisoning; NASA crashes two probes into the Moon.

Also: The principal, a teacher and more children from the Newtown school massacre are laid to rest; more Pakistani health workers giving polio vaccines are killed; General Motors is buying back stock from the U.S. government from the auto bailout; and a major winter storm is headed for the Plains.

Pakistani intelligence officials say Sangeen Zadran, a commander of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, was killed in North Waziristan.

Last year an appeals court overturned the seven-year sentence against the controversial former Italian leader. Judges on the Court of Cassation backed that decision Tuesday.