ENTERTAINMENT

• Justin Timberlake Producing NBC Pilot on Bachelor's Romance
  Justin Timberlake — who isn't exactly hurting from lack of attention from women — is producing an NBC pilot about a bachelor who strikes out with the ladies.
• Report: Swayze Gets Celebs' Support Fighting Cancer
  'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze has received supportive words from Hollywood friends, according to a report in Britain's Telegraph

HEALTH

• Video Games Lift Young Cancer Patients' Spirits
  Video games and other such activities can help children cope with cancer treatment

POLITICS

• Iraq Veteran Warns of McCain's War Policies
  Iraq veteran Roger Martinez says in the Democrats' weekly radio address that John McCain should not win the election because he would prolong the Iraq war.
• Transcript: President Bush's Radio Address
  In his weekly radio address to the nation, President Bush justifies his vetoing of Congress' intelligence authorization bill that would limit terror interrogators' use of specialized procedures to obtain information.
• Advocates Slam Judge for 5K-a-Day Reporter Fine
  Press advocates are decrying a judge's decision to impose $5,000-a-day fines on a reporter for refusing to disclose her sources for stories on the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• McCain Backer Says Terrorists Will Celebrate Obama
  John McCain’s campaign distanced itself Saturday from a supporter who told an Iowa newspaper that terrorists would be “dancing in the streets” if Barack Obama is elected president.
• Dems Pick Up House Seat Formerly Held by Dennis Hastert
  Democrats on Saturday picked up the Illinois U.S. House seat held by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in a special election.
• Obama Wins Wyoming Caucuses
  Barack Obama’s campaign began to reclaim lost momentum Saturday, beating Hillary Clinton by double digits in the Wyoming caucuses on the road to more critical upcoming contests.
• Bush Vetoes Bill Barring Use of Waterboarding
  President George W. Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.

SCITECH

• Plastic Bags Evil? Think Again, Some Scientists Say
  With pressure growing to ban plastic bags as environmentally unfriendly, the Times of London reports some experts say the alarm is unfounded
• Review: 'Lost' Game Gets Mired in Boring Details
  First video game based on hit ABC show feels like scavenger hunt with occasional cameos from series characters.
• The Week in Games: Feb. 5, 2008
  A roundup of the week's news and gossip from the video-game industry.
• Scientists Create Artificial Black Hole in Lab
  Fiber optics and two intense light beams of differing wavelengths used to replicate 'event horizon' where light cannot escape black hole's intense gravity.
• Countdown Starts for Tuesday Launch of Endeavour
  The countdown began Saturday for NASA's next shuttle launch, an unusually long space station mission by Endeavour.
• White Killer Whale Spotted Near Alaska
  Unusual beast a thrill for researchers, though they admit it's more beige than truly white.

U.S.

• Jury Convicts Mastermind of 'Barbie Bandits' Bank Robbery
  A jury on Friday convicted the mastermind behind the so-called "Barbie Bandits" bank robbery.
• Lawmaker Wants 'King of Beers' to Be State's Official Brew
  A state lawmaker wants to give the "King of Beers" its own kingdom by making Budweiser the official beer of Missouri.
• Kitten Survives Singapore-to-Cleveland Trip in Crate
  Black and white female feline survives in crate of spooled steel coil on trip across Pacific Ocean and North America.
• Police Find Missing Couple's Car on Hilton Head, S.C.
  Cops said they had found the silver 2006 Mercedes at a resort a few miles from the gated yacht community where John and Elizabeth Calvert live part time but said the discovery had not yielded any more clues into the couple's Monday disappearance.
• Death Penalty Recommended for Man Convicted of Killing Girl
  A jury recommended the death penalty Friday for a man convicted of luring a 10-year-old girl into his apartment, killing her and mutilating her body.
• Police Find Bike Believed Used in Times Square Bombing
  New York City police said they may have found the bicycle used by a man shown in video of a blast at a military recruitment center.
• Reports: Arrest Possibly Tied to Auburn Murder Case
  Alabama media say an arrest Friday on the Georgia border reportedly is linked to an Auburn University freshman's murder
• Slain UNC Student Was Known, Beloved on Campus
  Eve Carson, killed Wednesday, was a 'bright spot in anybody's day' at the University of North Carolina, where she was a senior
• Death Penalty Possible in Auburn Student's Killing
  Police on Saturday said they have a suspect in custody on capital murder charges in the death of Auburn University student Lauren Burk
• Sumatran Tiger Cub Born at San Francisco Zoo
  The San Francisco Zoo, which lost a tiger on Christmas, is celebrating the arrival of a newborn cub.
• Elderly Man Gets Life in Senior Home Slaying
  A 75-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for his third killing, this one for killing a disabled man in a California senior home.
• Mom Says Revenge-Seeking Woman Killed Her Baby
  A woman whose 6-week-old baby died after being burned, beaten and drugged says she thinks the motive was revenge, a Bogalusa newspaper reports.
• Cops Probe California Rooster Thefts
  Over a dozen roosters were stolen from a Bakersfield Animal Shelter on Thursday, and authorities suspect they were snatched by people running a cockfighting operation.
• Near-Decapitation Hasn't Dashed Boy's College Hopes
  Ricky Barber's recovery from near-decapitation in a car accident has been called a medical miracle
• Police Make Arrest in Tennessee Slayings
  Police say they have made an arrest in connection with the killings of four adults and two children who were found dead in a Memphis home.
• Naked Florida Man Saved From Gator Attack ... Again
  Risk-taker was found naked in alligator-infested waters a little more than a year after losing an arm to a gator bite.
• Woman's Body on Ice Discovered in California Hotel Room
  Police discovered the body of a woman packed in a large container with dry ice in a hotel room as they were serving a search warrant in a cocaine investigation, authorities said Friday.
• Man Charged With Killing Dismembered Woman Found Along Highw
  Police say a man has been charged with killing a woman whose dismembered remains were found dumped along Pennsylvania highways in January.
• Late-Winter Storm Buries Ohio Valley, Shuts Down Travel
  A foot of snow buried parts of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys early Saturday, shutting down travel and many public events.
• 11 Aboard Navy Sub Disciplined for Fraud, Cheating
  Eleven officers and sailors aboard the submarine U.S.S. Hampton were disciplined for falsifying nuclear reactor tests and for cheating on officer advancement exams, according to a Navy report on Friday.
• Fla. Police Hunt Man Shown in Video Beating Elderly Victim
  Florida police on Saturday were hunting a man shown in surveillance video with two others jumping an elderly man and taking his money after he had left a convenience store, NBC6.net reports.
• Auburn Police Announce Arrest in Student Murder Case
  A man arrested Friday on the Alabama-Georgia border is linked to the Tuesday killing of an Auburn University student, police said this morning
• Jailed Slaughterhouse Worker: I Was Only Following Orders
  A former slaughterhouse worker who was videotaped abusing ailing cattle in a case that led to the largest beef recall in U.S. history said in a jailhouse interview that he was only following orders.
• Remains of MIA Soldier From Korean War Found
  Joseph Meyer Jr. was declared missing in action in 1950, with few clues offered to his family, but that changed last week
• Authorities in UNC Shooting Circulating Photo of Suspect
  The mystery deepened Friday into the shooting death of a popular University of North Carolina student, with police focusing on the young woman's SUV and theorizing that her killer had been inside the vehicle.

WORLD

• Police Fire Tear Gas at Workers During Malaysian Elections
  Police fired tear gas Saturday at a crowd of opposition supporters who threw stones at buses allegedly transporting supporters of the ruling coaliton, witnesses and opposition officials said.
• Four Austria Politicians Receive Packages of Corrosive Acid
  Police widen investigation after a fourth politician received a package containing acid mailed from Germany.
• Putin: Medvedev Won't Be Any Easier for West to Deal With
  President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the West should not expect relations with Russia to be any easier under his newly elected successor, who is "no less of a Russian nationalist" than Putin.
• U.S. Forces Find Mass Grave With 100 Bodies in Iraq
  U.S. forces searching site that has seen years of intense fighting between Shiites and Sunni extremist members of Al Qaeda in Iraq find grave containing about 100 bodies.
• South American Leaders Move Away From Talk of War
  Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia presidents agree to end bitter dispute triggered by Colombian cross-border raid.
• Serbian Government Dissolved Over Kosovo Disagreement
  Serbia's prime minister dissolved the government Saturday and called for new elections after clashing with his pro-Western coalition partners over Kosovo and EU membership.
• Iraq's President Seeks 'Strategic' Partnership With Turkey
  Iraq's president says he wants a "strategic" partnership with Turkey, including getting the neighboring nation's businesses to invest in his oil-rich but war-torn country.
• Abbas Backs Peace Efforts After Seminary Massacre
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday echoed Israeli leaders in pursuing peace despite a deadly attack on a Jewish seminary
• Former British PM Margaret Thatcher Released From Hospital
  Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent the night in a London hospital for medical checks and returned home Saturday.
• Indian Man Freed After Years in Prison: I Was a Spy
  An Indian man freed after spending 35 years in Pakistani prisons for espionage has admitted being a spy, leading the Pakistani minister who organized the release to say it would now be harder to free other prisoners.
• Authorities: 4th Package With Acid Mailed to Official
  A fourth official in western Austria has opened a package containing acid, but was not injured, authorities said Saturday as they widened their investigation into the mysterious targeting of politicians in the area.
• 23 Injured After Greece Train Derails
  Officials launch investigation after passenger train traveling from Athens to northern city in Greece derails, injuring 20 adults and three children.