2010 | featured news

The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is intended to provide more healthful school meals to a great number of students.With his wife by his side, President Obama on Monday signed the child nutrition bill, strongly pushed by the first lady, who has made nutrition part of her campaign to help the young get healthy.

General David Petraeus, the top military commander in Afghanistan, has been named the "most fascinating person of 2010", beating the cast of MTV reality show "The Jersey Shore" and teen singer Justin Bieber.

Google on Thursday released its yearly Zeitgeist report, which showcases the top search terms of 2010.

When it comes to Las Vegas, Carrie Underwood is a sure bet. Underwood won her second country music artist of the year award of 2010 in Sin City on Monday night. She earned it at the inaugural American Country Awards about eight months after she won the top honor at the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis will still hang over global markets this week, but on Wall Street, investors will not be afraid to bet on stocks.

The financial crisis exposed, and in some cases led to, some remarkable examples of poor judgment by top chief executives. But this year as the economy has improved, so has CEO behavior — somewhat. No one claimed to be doing "God's work" in 2010 (cue Lloyd Blankfein) or invented 10,000 fictitious employees (Satyam Computer Services' B. Ramalinga Raju). But together chief executives made enough massive PR blunders — and engaged in enough dirty dealings — to remind us forcefully of their fallibility.

Vice President Joe Biden says a weak November jobs report is "disappointing" and a sign that the economic recovery is fragile.

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was the most searched term on Yahoo in 2010, the search engine said Wednesday.

Gartner cut its global personal-computer shipments forecast for 2010 and 2011 as consumers rein in spending and interest grows in tablet devices such as Apple's iPad.

The nation's economic stress fell in September to a 16-month low, thanks to more hiring in New England, fewer foreclosures in the mid-Atlantic and declining bankruptcy filings in the Southeast, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions around the country.