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Auto executives say they aren't sure whether consumers will actually want to buy the fuel-efficient cars President Obama wants manufacturers to build. They say whether they can succeed under the new fuel-efficiency standards hinges on the future price of gas.

By 1926, at age 16, Goodman was already a jazz virtuoso. But when he finally hit the big time, ushering in the swing era in the mid-1930s, his arrival converged with a burst of modernity throughout the U.S.

Jonel Beach has spent most of the past year looking for work. She's been so strapped for cash, she once found herself trying to make an orange last an entire day. She's just one of the nearly 4 million Americans who have been looking for work for six months or longer.

An emotional debate is under way in Pakistan over a U.S. plan to provide the country with $1.5 billion in economic aid for each of the next five years. Many Pakistanis view the plan, approved by Congress last week, as U.S. interference in their internal affairs.

The Obama administration's plan to overhaul the financial regulatory system is running into opposition from regulators. The Office of Thrift Supervision doesn't want to merge with the Comptroller of the Currency. The Federal Reserve is fighting the creation of a new agency to oversee consumer products and the FDIC is opposing the idea of making the Fed the regulator of "systemic risk."

The health overhaul bill expected to emerge this week from the Senate Finance Committee was supposed to be the one to win at least some Republican backing. But committee Chairman Max Baucus ultimately found himself scrambling to win the backing of enough Democrats to get the bill through.

AvtoVAZ, maker of Russia's iconic Lada sedans, will lay off 25,000 employees this December. One of every 7 residents in Togliatti, the city built in the late 1960s around the company, works at the Lada plant.

Three years after its implementation, 70 percent of doctors in the state support the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law. Nearly half wanted to keep the law but see some changes made, and just 7 percent said the law should be repealed.

Monkeys don't normally like human music. They prefer silence. But when researchers composed songs reminiscent of monkey vocalizations, the monkeys responded. This raises the philosophical question of what music really is and may bring us closer to writing ditties that appeal exclusively to other species.

In a remote part of Afghanistan over the weekend, one of the deadliest attacks against American bases there killed eight U.S. troops and three Afghan soldiers, as well as an Afghan policeman. The fierce battle highlights the difficulty U.S. forces face in defending Afghans and themselves against a growing insurgency.