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Greg Smith's scathing op-ed resignation letter is the talk of Wall Street. Now Goldman Sachs is trying to minimize the damage. And the Web is lighting up with chatter and parodies.

Getting hot and sweaty makes it hard for many people to keep exercising. A new study found that chilling people's palms while exercising helped them keep going.

Dallas Seavey slid into Nome, Alaska, at 7:29 p.m. Tuesday with nine dogs, finishing the race in nine days, four hours, 29 minutes and 26 seconds.

The Secretary of Defense was not hurt in the incident.

When U.S. troops inadvertently burned Qurans last month, it triggered large-scale rioting across Afghanistan that led to dozens of deaths. By comparison, the Afghan reaction has been comparatively muted so far to the shooting deaths of 16 innocent civilians. Why the difference?

President Bashar Assad and his opposition continue to crack down on rebels in Syria. U.N. envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad to try to broker a cease fire, but failed. The U.N. Security Council is drafting another resolution to support the Arab League request to have Assad step down from power.

For many fourth-year medical students, the future arrives, sealed in an envelope, during the third week of March. On what's known as Match Day, med students find out where they'll spend their residencies. It's a nerve-wracking wait that has played out on med school campuses since 1952.

In the first court ruling handed down by the International Criminal Court, warlord Thomas Lubanga from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is convicted of recruiting thousands of child soldiers.

A single statistic can help show how beneficial, or not, a treatment is. It's called the number needed to treat. And the lower it is, the better.

The Federal Reserve said 15 of the country's top 19 banks have enough capital to survive a "severe recession." The Fed tested them assuming an unemployment rate of 13 percent and a 50 percent drop in equity prices.