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The project in Arctic waters off Alaska is being pushed back to next year. Oil giant Shell blames a combinations of problems with an oil containment device, drifting sea ice and the need for permits.This is the second delay this year.

This isn't the first time Weight Watchers has added alcohol to its line-up. A German firm is already producing a series of wines featuring the points system that many American dieters are so familiar with.

Mitt Romney's effort to refocus his GOP presidential campaign on substance hit a rough patch Monday night. A secretly filmed video, released by Mother Jones magazine, shows Romney saying nearly half of Americans think they are "victims." Romney says his remarks were not elegantly stated.

McDonald's has concluded that Asian noodles are popular in Austria. So the company will give Austrians what they want. McNoodles took a year to develop and are available with curry sauce.

Yes, about half of Americans don't pay income taxes. But experts say few of those are shirking their responsibilities — and most pay many other types of taxes. Meanwhile, the GOP nominee has mixed some figures to come up with his conclusions, fact checkers say.

Mitt Romney's suggestion that 47 percent of Americans back President Obama because they don't pay federal income taxes overlooks the fact that the president draws considerable support from upper-income voters.

After seven days, about 350,000 students will return to classrooms this week.

An Egyptian prosecutor said if convicted, the Americans — including the Quran-burning Florida pastor Terry Jones — could face the death penalty.

The so-called "NIH superbug", a Klebsiella pneumoniae that resists most antibiotics, recently killed a seventh patient at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland. Similar outbreaks of heath care-associated infections spread in hospitals across the country every day.

Republican Mitt Romney's characterization of 47 percent of Americans as people who believe they are victims may hurt him in the short run. His problem: There's not much more campaign left than a short run. Here's a look at how the controversy is playing in eight battleground states.