• Whether it's a mini-sabbatical or an adult gap year, more people are taking extended work breaks
• Ilia Malinin hints at 'inevitable crash' amid Olympic pressure and online hate in social media post
• Michigan rises to No. 1 in AP Top 25 men's hoops poll for 1st time since January 2013
• Olympic meltdown: Norway's Atle Lie McGrath loses gold medal in slalom, then control of emotions
• Rap to rev up, soul to calm down: Freestyle skiers pick their soundtracks at the Winter Olympics
• US troops arrive in Nigeria to help train its military, Nigerian military says
• Opening statements held in the trial of a Georgia high school shooting suspect's father
• 2 years on, Navalny's death still casts a shadow over Russia and wider Europe
• Strike on market in Sudan's Kordofan region kills at least 28 people, rights group says
• Greece will seek to obtain Nazi execution photos offered for sale online
• Brazil's Lula gets image boost at Rio Carnival, but also faces legal risks
• Austrian prosecutors file terrorism charges against suspect over plot to attack Taylor Swift show
• Prosecutors plan to charge an Israeli settler with killing a Palestinian activist in the West Bank
• Is there such a thing as bad publicity? At the Olympics, curling is finding out ... probably not
• California braces for a major winter storm expected to bring heavy rain and snow