Former Sen. George Mitchell is due to read his 20-month long investigation into baseball's steroid problem on Thursday. (Dec. 12)
Wal-Mart says it is investigating claims that it is selling Christmas ornaments produced in a factory with sweatshop-like conditions. (Dec. 12)
At a U.N. climate conference in Indonesia, the United States reverses its position, agreeing to join negotiations for a new global warming pact by 2009. This could determine for years to come how the world cuts greenhouse gas emissions. (Dec. 15)
A contractor in Cleveland who helped discover bundles of Depression-era currency totaling $182,000 hidden behind bathroom walls says the homeowner should turn the money over to him or at least share it. (Dec. 13)
The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat. (Dec. 12)
The public got its first glimpse at the face of King Tut on Sunday. This comes 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's mummy was discovered in the famed Valley of the Kings. (Nov. 4)
Authorities have arrested five men on allegations they caused a fire that destroyed more than 50 homes and caused over $100 million in losses in Malibu, California. (Dec. 14)
Police say a woman on Long Island spiked a friend's drink using Visine eye drops. He then became sick. The woman now faces assault and criminal mischief charges. (Dec. 6)
Environmentalists say effects from an oil spill off the South Korean coast could last for years. Thousands of gallons of crude oil are washing ashore, coating oyster beds and devastating the region's aqautic industries. (Dec. 11)
A friend of the late Princess of Wales says Diana denied any intention of marrying Dodi Fayed in a conversation just a few days before the couple died. (Dec. 17)
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