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Neil Parry was arrested at an airport in Darwin, Australia, and was accused of stuffing drugs into bottles of shampoo. Parry spent three days in jail, but has now received $100,000 in compensation. Testing of the bottles of Pantene shampoo and conditioner showed they actually contained: just shampoo and conditioner.

A morgue official tells The Associated Press that more than 20 people have been killed. The protests against military rule and authorities' crackdown have raised questions about whether elections will be held on time. Officials vow they will.

Lawmakers on the so-called supercommittee are expected to confirm that they can't agree on a way to cut future deficits. In New York City, authorities say they stopped a "lone wolf" terrorist from building pipe bombs.

The debate hasn't been settled, but there's a new challenge to the claim by one group of scientists that they had measured particles moving faster than was thought possible.

Louis Freeh led the FBI from 1993 to 2001. Before that he was a U.S. District Court judge. He did not attend Penn State.

The protesters who have flooded into Tahrir Square again say the new leaders are the same as the old leaders.

David Coleman Headley was one of the leaders of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai. A new Frontline documentary chronicles how the son of a Pakistani father and an American mother became a radicalized Islamic militant while working as an informant for the U.S. government.

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak says that Iran's nuclear program should be stopped.

After months of deliberations, the so-called deficit supercommittee is poised to admit failure. The 12-member bipartisan group was charged with cutting more than one trillion dollars from federal spending over ten years. Without an agreement, automatic spending cuts are set to take effect in 2013.

The first stethoscope, invented by the French physician René Laennec, was simply a hollow wooden or ebony tube. Laennec named the device using the Greek roots stethos, or chest, and skopein, to look at or to observe. Medical historian Howard Markel discusses how Laennec came up with the invention. Unlike the stethoscope familiar to patients today, the original device was a simple tube.