(CNN) — Billy Powell, keyboardist with the rock bank Lynyrd Skynyrd, has
died of a heart ailment at his condo in the Jacksonville, Fla., suburb of
Orange Park, police said Thursday. He was 56.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is battling to survive collapsing auto demand, tight credit and uncertain prospects for recovery in its biggest markets.But its most-pressing crisis is simpler: too much debt.

The awards for the 59th Berlin International Film Festival were handed out on Saturday, Feb. 14. Winning the prestigious Golden Bear was a Peruvian film "The Milk of Sorrow."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 72, had surgery on Thursday for pancreatic cancer, a court spokeswoman said.

After abstaining from the UN vote on the no-fly zone over Libya and opposing NATO's military intervention, Germany faces an inquest over allegations that its spies were involved in tracking Colonel Gadhafi.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Record-setting Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been banned for three months by USA Swimming amid controversy over a photograph published in a British newspaper purportedly showing him smoking marijuana.

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Yahoo announced a new mobile service on Tuesday that will deliver an iPhone-like experience for people who cannot or will not splash out for the iconic but pricey Apple device as times get hard.

(CNN) -- Since the days of George Washington, U.S. presidents have carved out a long tradition of official road trips, if not by motorcade, then by railroad or horse and carriage.

Senior Iranian lawmaker Farhad Tajari has rejected a recent report by a UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran as “biased and politicized.”

(CNN) — This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is larger in both size and ozone loss than last year, but not as large as in 2006, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Making music just got easier. A Japanese game maker has teamed up with the nation's leading cellphone network carrier to enable users to play an orchestra with their fingertips.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The allure of heavily-battered stocks has grown so strong that some of Wall Street's most prominent investors are dipping their toes into the market, suggesting the brutal declines may be over the worst.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Saying Bernard Madoff enjoys a "gilded penthouse incarceration," civil rights activist Al Sharpton led a rally outside the accused swindler's Manhattan home on Saturday urging equal justice for the rich and poor.

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A dream job looking after a tropical island in Australia has attracted over 11,000 applicants -- including Osama bin Laden who failed to make the shortlist.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned on Monday.

More than two million residents along the eastern seaboard as far north as Connecticut reportedly were without power Saturday after a freak October nor'easter threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on parts of the Northeast and New England.

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