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But, Merkel added, "we are determined" to make the common currency and related institutions work. She didn't elaborate on how that will happen.

A bill passed by a state senate committee would tell doctors how to administer medications they use to perform abortions. However, some doctors disagree…

For more than 30 years, the airline had been including psalms with its meals. But a growing number of passengers have complained, the airline says. So now fliers will — as many already do — need to carry on their own prayers.

Federal Reserve officials said they expect short-term interest rates to stay close to zero "at least through late 2014." The Fed has been trying to give more explicit guidance on what it expects in the future as part of a broader move to greater transparency.

Middle-aged men with two common risk factors have a 50-50 chance of having a serious heart attack or stroke as they grow older, a new study finds. The findings suggest that taming risks early in life can make big difference later on.

North and South Korea are still officially at war, even though a truce was declared more than 50 years ago. As a result, there are upwards of 22,000 North Korean defectors now living in South Korea. The journey across the heavily guarded border is treacherous and often deadly. It's been just over a month since Kim Jong Un rose to power after his father Kim Jong Il's sudden death and there are some reports of would-be defectors being shot down while trying to flee the impoverished nation. Reporter Doualy Xaykaothao followed a recent defector entering society after six months of "re-education and training" by the South Korean government.

The third major contest of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign is being held today in South Carolina and we'll be live blogging as the news comes in, starting around 6 p.m. ET. Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

Actor Michael Fassbender talks about playing a sex addict in Shame and mushroom expert Nicholas Money explores the cultural and scientific history of fungal organisms. Also, reviews from critics Milo Miles and John Powers.

You'll be given two things in the same category. You name the only other thing in the same category that fits between the given things alphabetically. For example, given "Mars" and "Saturn," the answer would be "Mercury."

A new book combines the memories and culinary skills of one Chinese political dissident who lived through the country's Cultural Revolution. Since food was rationed, Sasha Gong learned to cook with whatever she could find. "There's something about humanity," she says. "It's hard to suppress."