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A nearly 14 percent drop in first-quarter sales of PCs is attributed in large part to interest in mobile devices — as well as a lukewarm reaction Microsoft's latest operating system.

The Guardian reports Margaret Thatcher's family specifically asked Argentina's president be left off the guest list for her funeral. Argentina's foreign minister said he didn't care.

A prominent male chin, thought to be a marker for virility, is one of the characteristics that's part of the so-called universal facial attractiveness hypothesis. But a look at chins from around the world raises doubts.

In her new memoir, Shocked, Volk examines the two women who had a lasting impact on her as she began to parse who she was as a woman: her beautiful, critical mother, Audrey Morgen Volk; and the famous — and unconventional — haute couture designer Elsa Schiaparelli.

Few can put on a one-man show like Jamie Lidell. Here, he visits the Morning Becomes Eclectic studio at KCRW to perform songs from his self-titled album, including the funky "Don't You Love Me."

Two treasures of Nashville's Americana scene play songs from their collaborative album, Buddy & Jim.

The part of the bailout coming from Cyprus had been estimated at $23 billion, but officials say it will now cost $30 billion.

The part of President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget plan getting the most attention is his proposal to change the way the government calculates inflation for Social Security beneficiaries. Economists call it chained CPI; some politicians call it fodder for the midterm elections.

There's $78 million of the agency's nearly $18 billion budget set aside for a program to capture a 500-ton asteroid in space and drag it back to orbit around the moon. And by 2021, astronauts could be visiting that asteroid to study it up close and gather samples.

Secretary of State John Kerry is in Seoul, South Korea, at a time of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula. There are expectations that North Korea might soon launch a medium-range missile.