China Expo Brand USA

2010-03-14T09:16:30Z

In this photo taken March 3, 2010, Greg Lombardo, brand development director of BRC Imagination Arts, speaks during an exclusive interview with the Associated Press about the USA Pavilion at Shang...

Climate Kerry

2010-03-12T15:02:08Z

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. talks about efforts to pass energy and climate change legislation, during an interview with The Associated Press interview in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Nucor CEO's pay package falls 43 percent; performance bonus eliminated in difficult year</div><div><p>An Associated Press calculation finds that steel maker Nucor Corp. paid its CEO fell 43 percent last year as it eliminated cash bonuses for executives to help it weather the recession.</p><p>Chairman,

Kimberly-Clark CEO gets pay package of $9M

2010-03-12T09:15:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Kimberly-Clark CEO Thomas J. Falk gets pay package of $9 million in 2009, up 1 percent</div><div><p>Kimberly-Clark Corp. CEO Thomas J. Falk's compensation edged up 1 percent last year to nearly $9 million as the maker of Huggies diaper...

Marjah push: Ups and downs are lessons for future

2010-03-12T04:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">In Marjah, a new way of fighting reveals gains and pitfalls in fighting larger Afghan war</div><div><p>EDITOR'S NOTE: Alfred de Montesquiou, an Associated Press correspondent embedded with U.S. Marines...

Ask AP

2010-03-12T03:45:52Z

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005 file photo, Brewster Yale Beach, foreground, takes a moment with Director of The Associated Press Corporate Archive Valerie Komor to view The Moses Sperry Beach Papers on display at the AP's headquarters, A collection of 19th-century documents newly acquired by The Associated Press shows that the world's largest news ga...

Ask AP: Air travelers' luggage, a skier's death

2010-03-12T03:45:09Z

<div id="subtitle">AP answers your news questions, from recovering air travelers' luggage to the death of a skier</div><div><p>Saving people's lives, of course, is an airline's top priority whenever a plane crashes. But later on, what's the procedure for trying to save their luggage?</p><p>Curiosity about who's ultimately responsible for air travelers' belongings inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP jo...

AT&T CEO accepts bonus; pay rises to $20.2M

2010-03-12T00:30:23Z

<div id="subtitle">AT&T CEO accepts bonus for 2009, pay rises to $20.2M vs. $15M in recession-starved 2008</div><div><p>The frugality of the recession eased in the 2009 pay package for AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson, who resumed taking a bonus and saw his compensation rise by one-third to $20.2 million, according to Asso...

Haiti: Kidnappers release 2 European aid workers

2010-03-11T16:45:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Kidnappers release 2 European aid workers; 1st reported kidnappings in months</div><div><p>Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday.</p><p>It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti suffered a magnitude-7 earthquake with catastrophic damage on Jan. 12. More than 5,000 prisoners fled jails that collapsed or w...

Feds recall more children jewelry in cadmium probe

2010-03-11T16:45:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal government recalls more children's jewelry based on cadmium concerns</div><div><p>Federal safety regulators recalled a line of Christmas-themed bracelets Thursday, expanding their effort to purge children's jewelry boxes and store shelves of items containing high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.</p><p>The latest action by the U...

Ex-AP reporter, bureau chief Nance dies in Ohio

2010-03-11T16:17:04Z

<div id="subtitle">John Nance, AP reporter during Vietnam War and bureau chief in Philippines, dies in Ohio at 74</div><div><p>John Nance, a former Associated Press reporter and photographer who covered the Vietnam

US police departments seeking more bilingual cops

2010-03-11T13:00:48Z

<div id="subtitle">US police departments seeking more bilingual cops; some officers sent abroad to be immersed</div><div><p>Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs.</p><p>Police chiefs hope the investment pays off by improving service to immigrant communities and easing fear of officers in those...

US Customs: Mexican cartels corrupt border agents

2010-03-11T13:00:40Z

<div id="subtitle">US Customs says Mexican cartels infiltrate border agency; few new hires take polygraph tests</div><div><p>Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don't have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday.</p><p>James Tomsheck,...

German schools angry over church abuse scandal

2010-03-11T10:30:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Germany's top educator criticizes church officals over growing abuse scandal</div><div><p>German educators sharply criticized Catholic church officials for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal even as more alledged victims came forward Thursday, including a former member of the all-boys choir led by the pope's brother.</p><p>The uproar came a day before Germany's highest bishop was t...

Sweden Prophet Drawing

2010-03-11T03:46:44Z

Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog...

A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds

2010-03-11T01:00:27Z

<div><p>Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training.</p><p>Lawyers for the Yankees slugger are setting up an interview as part of an investigation into a Canadian doctor who is the focus of a cross-border drug smuggling case involving human growth hormone.</p><p>Rodriguez...

Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing

2010-03-10T15:33:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing, says Islam not off limits to mockery</div><div><p>The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.</p><p>

Eastman Chemical CEO gets $3.5M in 2009 pay

2010-03-10T14:15:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Eastman Chemical pays new CEO $3.5 million in 2009 compensation, according to AP tally</div><div><p>In his first year as CEO of Eastman Chemical Co., James Rogers received compensation valued at $3.5 million, according to an Associated Press calcula...

Workers stuck on open drawbridge in Fla. rescued

2010-03-10T09:30:52Z

<div id="subtitle">4 Florida workers rescued after drawbridge malfunctions, trapping them in the air</div><div><p>Four workers are safe after getting stuck on a drawbridge that went up unexpectedly in Florida</p><p>Pompano Beach city spokeswoman Sandra King says hydraulics failed on a bridge under reconst...

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