Deep Dropping

BRUSSELS - Several large charges for taxes and restructuring pushed ArcelorMittal into a deep loss in the fourth quarter and the steelmaker warned Tuesday that concerns over Europe's economy had hit demand.

DEEP RUN – Nothing is etched in stone but if the Topsail High School girls’ basketball team can do no worse than stay the course (.500 in their last four regular-season games) a spot in the NCHSAA 2A state playoffs is on the horizon.

Several large charges for taxes and restructuring pushed ArcelorMittal into a deep loss in the fourth quarter.ArcelorMittal on Tuesday announced a $US1 billion ($A935 million) net loss in the fourth quarter, ...

Several large charges for taxes and restructuring pushed ArcelorMittal into a deep loss in the fourth quarter and the steel maker warned Tuesday that concerns over Europe's economy had hit demand.

And here comes the drama. After last night’s 21-17 loss in the Super Bowl, the wife of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was making her way to the team’s locker room.

-- With Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin enduring the media waterboarding all week, this is the Grumpy Bowl. Not many coaches work as hard as these two at withholding whatever personality they have. Man, the Super Bowl...

That was the real deal-breaker. My professor required us to go on a court visit, and when I arrived to find no sign of any cast member from Law & Order, the red flags went up.

With four state championships and a number of deep playoff runs since winning its last title in 1998, Stephenville has been one of the state's most successful 4A programs over the past two decades.

"It's a bit like finding a foot-long cockroach," according to one of the scientists that discovered the oversized crustacean. read more

A passenger boat sails across the bay at sunrise in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in the Crimea, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Weather remains cold in the Crimea with temperature dropping to mi