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Former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay man elected to Congress, dies at 69. He retired in 1997. Studds was censured by the House in 1983 after admitting an affair with a 17-year-old former page, but won re-election.

For years, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus has helped the poor people of Bangladesh by giving them "microcredit" to start businesses. One such enterprise is a cell phone company that provides service and equipment to 260,000 village "phone ladies" across the nation.

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pamuk is a prominent journalist in his native country but has been criticized by Turkish nationalists in recent years for his remarks about Turkey's genocide of Armenians. His writing reflects an unflinching honesty and an optimistic view of East-West harmony.

A new report by the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies says the federal government should stop sending mixed messages about seafood, boost testing for contaminants and make it easier for consumers to find up-to-date information.

Children across the country have been waiting anxiously for Friday the 13th. They've been waiting for the release of The End by Lemony Snicket. It's the 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Residents along the Gulf Coast whose property sustained damage in Hurricane Katrina are suing insurance companies for denying their claims. Insurers are citing the language of the policies, but attorneys for homeowners argue many of these claims were improperly denied.

When Edward Perkins went to South Africa as the first black U.S. ambassador to the then apartheid nation, he recalls its leader angrily telling him to stay out of the country's affairs. Perkins refused to heed the warning and visited black townships.

In his book Failed Illusions, scholar Charles Gati offers a new assessment of the Hungarian anticommunist uprising of 1956, arguing that the failures were widespread, and the "gap between words and deeds was huge" in the U.S. response.

The non-profit College Board reports that the average annual cost of a four-year private college is now above $30,000. Sending a student off to a year at a public school now costs, on average, nearly $12,800.

At Washington's Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts school for the deaf, protests against the woman picked to lead the university, Jane Fernandes. Gallaudet officials expected the demonstrations to die down, but bloggers are keeping the issue alive.