AP - A 13-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter for allegedly attacking another boy on a school playground who later died of his injuries, police said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - There is an urgent need to treat millions of HIV-infected children in poor areas of the world by developing drugs that are easier to administer and improving medical training, the American Academy of Pediatrics said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhattan apartment prices rose 6.6 percent per square foot on average in the first quarter from a year ago, bucking a broad U.S. decline as Wall Street bonuses boosted buyer income, according to a leading market report.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. worker fired last month for intercepting a reporter's phone calls says he was part of a larger, sophisticated surveillance operation that included snooping not only on employees, but also on critics, stockholders and the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., The Wall Street Journal reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seat and head restraints in more than 60 percent of newer passenger vehicles on the road fail to offer optimal head and neck protection in rear-end crashes, a leading safety group said on Thursday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese company at the centre of a contamination scare that has led to a recall of pet foods in North America and Europe said on Friday it had never exported wheat gluten to the Unites States.

AP - The military shot down a Scud-type missile in this year's second successful test of a new technology meant to knock down ballistic missiles in their final minute of flight, the Missile Defense Agency said Friday.

AP - A boxed bathtub fell from the bed of a pickup truck and slid into a motorcycle's path, critically injuring the 72-year-old cyclist, state police said.

AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Zach Johnson, defying all the odds, held off a late challenge by four-times champion Tiger Woods to claim his first major title by two shots at the Masters on Sunday.

AP - The Bush administration and the Defense Department are among the winners of the 2007 Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Tuesday by a free-speech group to those it considers the most egregious First Amendment violators in the past year.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia University is expected to announce a gift of at least $400 million, possibly as much as $600 million, from media entrepreneur John W. Kluge on Wednesday, two people familiar with the donation said in The Wall Street Journal.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'CBS Evening News' anchor Katie Couric may vividly recall her first library card, but the network says she was unaware that her online video essay about the virtues of libraries was largely a work of plagiarism.

AP - A suburban Washington dentist on the run since his 2003 conviction for raping a 15-year-old female patient sedated in his office was arrested this week at a Mexican beach resort, authorities said Thursday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Capsules containing powder made from dried rattlesnake meat can be tainted with bacteria that make them as deadly as the snake's bite and perhaps should be pulled from the U.S. market, a researcher said on Saturday.

AP - A man who pleaded guilty to managing brothels as part of a nationwide ring that forced immigrant women into prostitution was sentenced to six years and eight months in federal prison.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel's powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts U.S. national interests and stifles debate.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A revenge-themed song by 'American Idol' winner Carrie Underwood scored a double video win on Monday in the 2007 Country Music Television Awards.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Following reports of abuse, the U.S. government on Tuesday temporarily barred college loan firms from accessing a database containing confidential personal information on millions of student borrowers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. redesigned the best-selling vehicle in the United States, the F-150 pickup, and cut its death rate in half, a leading safety group said in a study set for release on Thursday.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Helen Walton, widow of the founder of the Wal-Mart discount retail empire, died Thursday night at her home in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the corporation is headquartered. She was 87.

AP - A teenager accused of gunning down his principal told detectives in a videotaped interview that he didn't mean to kill him but 'freaked out' when the principal tackled him in a school hallway.

AP - Two small planes carrying a total of eight people crashed in separate incidents off the coast of Florida, authorities said. No survivors had been found by late Saturday.

AP - The same food safety net that couldn't catch poisoned pet food ingredients from China has a much bigger hole.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone has provided medical documents to Australia's customs after being charged with importing 48 vials of banned human growth hormone, his lawyer told a Sydney court on Tuesday.

AP - Six people were killed when severe storms spawned a tornado that struck a small community near the Mexican border Tuesday, officials said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg expects tax revenues to top his forecasts by $1.3 billion in the current fiscal year and another $838 million in the new fiscal year 2008 budget that starts on July 1, a source familiar with the latest financial plan said on Wednesday.

AP - Wildfires flared up in drought-stricken southeast Georgia, destroying several buildings and forcing hundreds of fire-weary residents to leave their homes.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A 27-year-old Austin man was arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the state's capital.

AP - Joey Buttafuoco, whose 17-year-old lover shot his wife in the face more than a decade ago, was released from jail after serving three months for illegally possessing ammunition, authorities said.

AP - Firefighters have managed to contain about 70 percent of the largest wildfire in Georgia history, which had charred 100 square miles of forest and swampland, officials said Sunday.