10:45 a.m. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Thunderous explosions and dense smoke swirled through central Baghdad on Monday when three car bombs ripped apart a crowded marketplace in a Shiite neighborhood, setting off secondary explosions and killing at least 71 people, police said. A suicide bombing nearby killed at least nine.

LISBON, Portugal — Voters failed to overturn Portugal’s strict abortion law Sunday because of low turnout at the polls, but the prime minister nonetheless vowed to relax the restriction through legislation in the conservative Roman Catholic country.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Thomas Paine may have helped inspire the American Revolution, but inspiring Arkansas lawmakers to commemorate a day in his honor is another matter.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University on Sunday named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.

SANTA ROSA — A small television station canceled its nightly newscasts and is soliciting programming from locals — from independent filmmakers to teachers and Sonoma County politicians.

NEW YORK — A year later, and still no Vivi.

PARISH, N.Y. — The snow got even deeper Sunday but the end was in sight after a weeklong series of squalls that have buried towns on one corner of Lake Ontario.

LOS ANGELES — There was little punch from a weekend Pacific storm system that rolled ashore and left less than an inch of rain across parched Southern California.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming is the main focus of the Bush administration’s proposed $22 million initiative to restore and protect wildlife habitat in seven western states.