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Oscars 2008: The Good, the Bad, and the Photos

Disillusionment with limited social progress and free-market reforms swept Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva to power in 2002. But Brazil's first working-class president, a wild favorite with poorer voters, is taking a more moderate path toward change.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates gets a briefing on the Afghan insurgency. He is traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Afghanistan in an attempt to shore up international and NATO support for a continued war against the Taliban.

The British media giant EMI says it will release its artists' music digitally without so-called "DRM," or "digital rights management," restrictions. Such moves have been recently called for by the likes of Apple's Steve Jobs, who was in London for the announcement.

Chrysler LLC workers begin walking off the job after labor negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and automaker left key issues unresolved ahead of a late-morning strike deadline.

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You may think that war strategy is all about winning. But winning what? Hostilities actually began in Afghanistan just weeks after September 11, 2001, when it was believed that the terrorists had been trained in Afghanistan. Then Iraq was invaded because President Bush believed that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction. For six years, the U.S. has been waging war in the Middle East.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces pressure from junior members of his government to follow their lead and resign. Blair says he won't seek election again, but has set no date to leave office.

The Austrian National Gallery is being compelled by a national arbitration board to return five paintings by Gustav Klimt to a Los Angeles woman, the heir of a Jewish family that had its art stolen by the Nazis. The paintings are estimated to be worth at least $150 million.

Violence across Iraq claimed 44 lives, including that of two Christian women who were killed when guards in a security convoy fired on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad Tuesday. The latest incident draws more questions about the way private security firms operate.