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Blockbuster console game franchise Halo is going to have a new installment for mobile phones. Microsoft made the announcement Tuesday. It's a confirmation of the way the gaming industry is going, away from relying on $60 console games and closer to mobile and micropayments.

The State Department and several U.S. pro-democracy organizations have reacted strongly to a Cairo court ruling Tuesday. More than 40 foreign and local NGO workers were sentenced to prison for operating without a license. The ruling will likely spur calls in Congress for retaliation.

According to multiple news outlets, the man whose Miami clinic has been at the center of allegations about players using performance-enhancing drugs has agreed to testify. His evidence is likely to lead to suspensions of some stars, ESPN and others say.

The Fuel Entertainment company plans to sift through a New Mexico landfill in search of Atari video games. According to legend, that's where Atari dumped millions of copies of E.T. The movie-based video game did not sell when released in 1982.

Also: T.S. Eliot on cats; LGBT literary awards; and Jonah Lehrer gets back in the game.

Rice, now the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has been a lightning rod for Republican critics of how the administration responded to last September's attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya. She will replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning. Her new post does not require Senate confirmation.

This year's graduates — whether from high school, community college or a four-year college — are finding better job prospects than at any time since 2008.

The White House announced Wednesday that Tom Donilon is resigning as President Obama's national security adviser. He will be replaced by Susan Rice, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

What can you do with beach sand? Build a sand castle. Dig a canal. Make a snake. What can you do with MIT's "smart" sand? One day, you will turn it into a hammer, fork, chair, anything you want. And when you're done? Poof! It's sand again.

The Komen foundation has attributed the drop in walk participation, in part, to a crummy economy. But it's clear the organization underestimated the reaction to its short-lived decision in early 2012 to discontinue funding for breast cancer screening by Planned Parenthood.