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At a time when retailers like Gap are shrinking, a trendy Japanese fashion retailer has opened a flagship location in New York and plans to keep expanding in the U.S. Customers are drawn to Uniqlo's affordable, colorful clothes at a time when they're reluctant to spend.

As the nation's student-loan debt climbs toward $1 trillion, many students face 20-year repayment plans. The average debt is $24,000, but some owe far more and say this burden influences life decisions, from buying a house to whether to have children.

Though dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, there are still thought to be a few species left over from those days. Plants called cycads, the so-called "living fossils," have remained mostly unchanged for 300 million years. But a new study suggests that glamorous title may not be deserved.

The man who ruled Libya from a fortress-like compound in the heart of Tripoli reportedly spent his last moments holed up in a culvert under a road in his hometown of Sirte. The exact circumstances of his death remained as murky as his whereabouts since the capital fell in August.

News of the Syrian uprising has come largely from activists who have taken great risks to get the story out. One of them went by the alias Alexander Page. But he recently fled to Egypt and and is now speaking out under his real name, Rami Jarrah.

The president said Moammar Gadhafi's death marked the end of a long and painful chapter for the Libyan people. But the seven-month military campaign that toppled the Libyan leader also marks a high point for the kind of international cooperation that Obama has championed.

The host of the NPR-distributed show has drawn criticism for her role in an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Simeone was fired as host of Soundprint, a separate, independently produced documentary radio program.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda. It's a tiny operation, but has become quite common for the U.S. military, and may be used even more often in the coming years.

The funeral for former Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi was to have taken place Friday, in keeping with Islamic traditionthat bodies be buried as soon as possible. But a host of concerns have caused the body to be placed in temporary storage instead

In China, an "outpouring of grief" meets news that a toddler has died after being struck by two vans in the city of Foshan. The story became a sensation after a security camera's video revealed that more than a dozen passers-by had ignored the injured Wang Yue, 2, as she lay in the street.