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Syria's weaponry is coming under scrutiny as Turkey bars its airspace to Syrian flights and Human Rights Watch accuses Assad forces of indiscriminately using cluster bombs in civilian areas.

Arlen Specter, the outspoken senator who started out Republican, switched to Democrat and stayed moderate throughout, has died, the AP reports. He was 82.

Former teen heartthrob Andrew McCarthy heads around the world to confront his own issues on intimacy and commitment in his new memoir, The Longest Way Home.

Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk, an important figure in much of his country's recent turmoil, has died. Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting for The New York Times inspired The Killing Fields, and NPR commentator Ted Koppel talk about the life and legacy of Norodom Sihanouk.

Among the key pieces of the classical-music repertoire Beethoven's string quartets. Recordings by the Budapest Quartet are essential to critic Lloyd Schwartz.

U.S. officials now believe Iran was responsible for a series of cyberattacks on American banks in September and on major energy firms in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the escalating tactics of cyberwarfare.

Economic historian Gregory Clark's study of social mobility traced surnames and found that a person's success in life may be largely determined by the status of ancestors hundreds of years ago. That means improving opportunities across generations might be a lot harder than anyone imagined.

The British writer becomes only the third author to win the prestigious award twice, joining J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey. She also becomes the first author to win with a sequel. Her novel Wolf Hall won in 2009.

Within hours of the first presidential and vice presidential debates, the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney used debate footage in their ads. Expect the same after tonight's town hall-style showdown.

Seven works by famous artists were stolen by thieves who broke into the Rotterdam museum around 3 a.m. The thieves set off an alarm, but managed to escape before police arrived.