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Edith Murway holds the Guinness World Record for oldest competitive weightlifter. She turns 100 on Sunday. Murway started powerlifting at 91.

The U.S. basketball star was transferred to a prison colony in Mordovia — 300 miles southeast of Moscow — to begin serving out a nine-year sentence on drug charges.

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

Actor Jeremy Renner was helping a family member retrieve their vehicle from the snow when the accident occurred on New Year's Day.

Brooklyn verismo, courtesy of American composer William Bolcom: the trials of Italian immigrants — some of them illegal — in 1950s Red Hook.

Rossini's take on Cinderella is one of his most comic operas, but it has serious moments. Kate Aldrich sings Cinderella, and Lawrence Brownlee is the prince in a production from the Rossini opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy.

Chef Robert Weland grows tomatoes and herbs in a kind of urban oasis next to his Washington, D.C., restaurant. The garden's bounty will end up as a bowl of cool, smooth gazpacho.

From frustrated newlyweds who don't know what to do with each other, to an arranged marriage of inconvenience, this double bill from Ireland's Wexford Festival features the little-heard short operas The Marriage contract by Rossini and An Insufficient Education by Chabrier.

JP Morgan Chase will acquire the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns at the fire-sale price of $2 a share, a deal quickly approved over the weekend by the Federal Reserve, which also approved a cut in its emergency lending rate to financial institutions by a quarter-point to 3.25 percent. The moves stirred fear in foreign markets.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader has withdrawn from the country's presidential runoff election, saying the loss of life among his supporters is too high a price to pay. Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe has run a violent, illegitimate election. Tsvangirai's withdrawal spurred reaction from African leaders and the United Nations.