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Campaigning in the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a stormy turn. Veteran opposition politician and presidential candidate Etienne Tshisekedi proclaimed himself president, and ordered his supporters to stage jailbreaks to free their detained colleagues.

The unpublicized "finding of violation" issued against the Asarco copper smelter in Hayden, Ariz., claims the company has been emitting illegal amounts of lead, arsenic and eight other dangerous compounds for six years. Asarco disputes that.

Organizers said their ultimate goal is to shut down Wall Street.

Fifty years after getting married, a New Mexico couple celebrated by skydiving. Alan Dodd wanted to do something different to mark their golden anniversary. His wife Pat needed some convincing. She gave in because as she told Albuquerque's KRQE TV, retirement has given the couple time to do "crazy things."

Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York have begun what they say will be a day full of marches, civil disobedience and other actions aimed at — this is their goal — shutting down Wall Street.

Now that Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as Italy's prime minister, he'll have more time for his music. Berlusconi's newest album is called True Love. It will be releases this month.

There were 388,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week.

As hundreds of protesters tried to clog the streets around the New York Stock Exchange, they were met by a heavy police presence.

On Wednesday, author Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award. Her novel, Salvage the Bones, takes place in a small town during a hurricane. The story was based on her own experience of surviving Hurricane Katrina, which she describes in this essay.

Emily Rapp and her husband eagerly anticipated their baby's birth. But when their son Ronan was nine-months-old, he was diagnosed with a terminal disease. All of their plans suddenly felt inconsequential and they refocused their lives on being fierce, loyal and loving "dragon parents."