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Federal aviation regulators say a pin on the horizontal stabilizer could be prone to corrosion and "premature failure."

After a special Mass, the closed-door gathering to choose a successor to the now-retired Pope Benedict XVI will begin.

The explosion in the center of the Czech capital heavily damaged one building and shattered windows in nearby structures. There were fears that at least a few people might be trapped in rubble.

The suspect arrested in Spain is thought to have perpetrated what's been described as the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack in the history of the Internet.

After sustaining what seemed to be minor injuries, the official later lost consciousness. The teenager was arrested Monday on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Though there have been other signs to indicate that the economy is on the upswing, many Americans aren't feeling all that good about how things are going.The private Conference Board reports that its widely watched consumer confidence index fell to 58.6 in January from 66.7 in December.

The most famous building from the 1970's scandal is the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. A close second has to be the parking garage nearby, where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his source "Deepthroat." But now that historical location is about to become history — it's being torn down and going condo.

Journalists NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN were Beijing correspondents of "The New York Times" from 1988 to 1993. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. They have just written a book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" (Times Books). It explores the contradiction in China of a booming economy paired with terrible human rights abuses, as China struggles to be a new world power.

JOHN HELYAR'S new book, "Lords of the Realm" (Villard Books) looks at the corporate world of baseball. Instead of tracing the history of the game through its players, HELYAR focuses on the behind the scenes people-- the agents,owners, and general managers-- who shaped baseball. HELYAR is a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal," and co-author of the "New York Times" bestseller, "Barbarians at the Gate.

Columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer STEVE LOPEZ. He's just written his first novel, "Third and Indiana" (Viking) about life in Philadelphia's "Badlands." The origin of the story is a two-paragraph item LOPEZ read in the paper about a 14 year-old boy shot and killed on a drug corner in North Philadelphia. LOPEZ was disturbed by the casualness and brevity of the report. Terry talks with LOPEZ about his new book, and about his popular columns. LOPEZ was last on Fresh Air when he talked about the hate mail he'd received for his columns about the Gulf War.