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NEW YORK — Entrusted with safeguarding world peace and security, the United Nations has failed to safeguard valuable works of art on its own premises, according to an internal investigation.

Stocks ended at 12-year lows Thursday, more than wiping out the previous day’s rally. Investors wrestled with more disheartening economic data, new concerns about GM and relentless uncertainty about the financial system. Short selling ahead of the government’s Friday employment report exacerbated the losses, slashing 281 points from the Dow Jones industrials and sending all the major indexes down more than 4 percent.

Laurens County (The Greenville News) - Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle’s funeral in Gray Court.

Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks.

Pakistan is desperate for heroes and yesterday it found one in Mehar Mohammed Khalil, the bus driver whose quick thinking saved Sri Lanka’s cricket team and probably averted the biggest massacre of international sports stars since the 1972 Munich Olympics.

At least 20 people have been killed during a prison riot in the troubled Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, local authorities have said.

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today defended the Obama administration’s proposed tax increases for the wealthy and promised to stamp out offshore tax havens.

International donors at a conference in Egypt pledged $4.48bn over two years to support the Palestinian economy and rebuild Gaza after the Israeli offensive, but made clear none of the funds should end up in the hands of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the territory.

MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran’s nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources.

President Obama said he expected a vicious fight over his budget, and this weekend he got the first taste of battle.

Maria Duran said she could feel her son’s remains just by looking at the closed coffin in front of her.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles have hit an alleged Taliban compound near the border with Afghanistan.

She’s on the March cover of Vogue in a sleeveless silk sheath. Then there was the purple sleeveless Narciso Rodriguez she wore to the president’s joint session of Congress on Tuesday. And she’s on the cover of the latest People magazine in a lacy pink number, also without sleeves.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A powerful March snowstorm blanketed much of Alabama and then marched across Georgia on Sunday, forcing some flight cancelations in Atlanta as the East Coast braced for a potential pummeling amid winter storm warnings.

EU leaders have held an emergency economic summit in Brussels amid fears among newer EU members that a protectionist “iron curtain” is being drawn in favour of richer nations in the bloc.