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A leaked draft of the report accuses the Rwandan army of possible genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its release was postponed so the Rwandan government, which was infuriated by the accusation, can append its comments.

George Frayne, better known as Commander Cody, has been making music with his band, The Lost Planet Airmen, for decades. But beyond the boogie-woogie, swing, country and rock, there's another side to Frayne: He's also a visual artist. His new book contains pop-art portraits of cultural icons, along with personal anecdotes.

On Sept. 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler introduced his Symphony No. 8 -- a massive, hulking work featuring an enormous double chorus and the largest orchestra ever put on stage at the time. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas says he thought it was the most "grotesque assemblage of noises" he had ever heard. But many years later, he has recorded a Grammy-winning version of the symphony.

Max Weinberg, longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and bandleader for the Tonight Show, recently got one of the best Father's Day gifts a dad could receive. When he couldn't make some of Springsteen's gigs, the Boss suggested that Weinberg's 18-year-old son Jay sit in this summer.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the nation's highest court, had surgery Thursday to remove a cancerous tumor from her pancreas. Ginsburg is being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She was treated for colon cancer 10 years ago.

Cyrus, a decidedly singular boy-meets-girl (and her bizarro kid) comedy from Jay and Mark Duplass, proves that mumblecore can survive the star treatment -- if the Hollywood names attached are the right ones. (Recommended)

The U.S. strategy to control Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, relies on a solid government that can take over when the Taliban leave. Opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah says that can happen -- but that it depends on President Karzai.

Choosing which words to use is a key part of the health-care debate. For example, is it a "public option" or a "government plan"? Every side uses words calculated to persuade people before they even think about it. But can one side or the other win the debate simply by winning the war of words?

The folks at the Economic Cycles Research Institute are convinced that the recession will end sometime this summer because of a pervasive upturn in leading indicators. But, says Lakshman Achuthan, managing director at the institute, the end of the recession does not mean an immediate turn to prosperity.

If there's one fact that everyone knows about the physical world, it's that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or zero degrees Celsius. But wait — scientists in Israel have shown that you can keep water liquid all the way to minus 40 degrees by pouring it on the right surface.