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Following a long negotiation, the band's songs are finally available for digital download.

Huntsville is the shining star in Alabama's economy. Scientists there designed the rockets that put man on the moon. In the past 50 years, it's become a magnet for high-tech space and defense jobs. But with NASA downsizing and the specter of defense cuts looming, Huntsville finds itself in limbo.

Insider attacks by Afghan forces have killed 40 coalition troops so far in 2012, including ten Americans. That surpasses the number of so-called green-on-blue attacks in 2011, and raises serious questions about Afghan readiness as American forces prepare for a withdrawal that could begin in 2013.

Antarctica has 90 percent of the world's ice--and it's melting. Ice sheet guru Bob Bindschadler talks about climate change in Antarctica, and rising sea levels across the globe. Plus, biologist Diana Wall talks about hidden life in the barren Dry Valleys, and microbe hunter John Priscu talks about "bugs in the ice."

From John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono to a pregnant Demi Moore, photographer Annie Leibovitz has made a career of capturing people. But her latest collection is something very different. In Pilgrimage, Leibovitz focuses her lens on places and objects that have special meaning for her.

The economies of Aleppo, Syria's northern business center, and Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, have been stalled by Syria's protest movement and the government's violent response. The events in Syria could lead Turkey to get tough against its ally.

The financial crisis gripping Greece is having a major impact on the country's young people. A two-tier labor market that favors the older generation and draconian austerity measures have triggered a record high jobless rate among those under 35.

For troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former military physician says, bullets aren't the main threat. Bombs are. And that means military medicine faces a host of new challenges.

Writer Debora MacKenzie asks a big question: Are we doomed? The author of a recent New Scientist cover story says our survival depends on how connected we are to each other. She argues that we should expect collapse try to manage it.

Elite rescue teams from France, Spain and the United States have plucked seven people out of the flattened Hotel Montana, once one of the nicest hotels in Port-au-Prince. The quake destroyed the luxury compound. But as time passes, hope for rescuing other survivors fades.