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A senior Hamas official says the Gaza leadership has no intention of stopping its rocket attacks on Israel, despite claims from Palestinian sources that more than 500 have died during Israeli reprisals.

Leon Panetta, chief of staff in President Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be director of the CIA, two Democratic officials told CNN on Monday.

The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff tried to hide at least $1 million in assets from government investigators, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday.

As European diplomats sought a cease-fire, Israeli troops poured into Gaza City, expelling residents and shooting militants.

The city will install windshield-mounted cameras, similar to the "black boxes" in aircraft, which will record data on vehicle use, road accidents and other information in and around cameras.

In a move that leaves a post-election legal challenge the last hope for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota's high court has denied his campaign's request to consider about 650 additional rejected absentee ballots.

A look at some of the storylines to come out of the first-round games.

NASA expected its two Mars rovers to survive only three months in the dusty and freezing Martian conditions. But Saturday marked the five-year anniversary of the first robot's landing.

Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, would take over an agency buffeted by criticism.

Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany.

Senate leaders are challenging Roland W. Burris’s appointment, setting the stage for a showdown on Capitol Hill.

Vehicle sales plunged 53 percent at Chrysler, while G.M., Ford and Toyota all reported declines of between 31 and 37 percent from December a year ago.

Passed over for the top job, Philip Bennett decides it is time to leave.

The dean of Georgia lawyers, Mr. Bell, 90, also served as a federal judge and prominent legal troubleshooter.

Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.

Steven P. Jobs said that he was being treated for a hormone imbalance but would remain in his job.

The Tocho Swing Beats band, which played the Birdland jazz club on Sunday, mostly comprises city workers from the Tokyo municipal government.

The election panel’s stamp of approval is unlikely to bring an end to the fight over the Senate seat.

President Bush has authorized an immediate airlift of vehicles and equipment to bolster the international peace-keeping mission in the conflict-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.

High manufacturing costs, declining demand for luxury goods in the current economic downturn, and a weak dollar overstretched the finances at the Irish maker of luxury crystal and ceramics.