Also: Police arrest several people after clashing with protesters who threw bottles following a candlelight vigil for the slain Brooklyn teen.

Also: Blasts in Baghdad kill and wound dozens of people; Khmer Rouge leader dies while on trial for genocide; Detroit may get an emergency financial manager today; and Google Reader is getting the axe.

Also: Snow clogs European travel routes; Greenland voters choose new government that could include first female prime minister; thousands of pigs removed from Chinese river; and golfer survives plunge into 18-foot Illinois sinkhole.

Malian authorities continue to hold newspaper publisher Boukary Daou for printing an open letter to Malian authorities. The letter warns that Malian soldiers could lay down their weapons in the fight against Islamist militants unless they're told why a former coup leader is getting a huge salary.

Also: North Korea ends its armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone hotline to South Korea; a European snow storm snarls travel; five Americans are killed in an Afghan helicopter crash; and NASA will unveil the makeup of Martian soil discovered by the Curiosity Rover's recent drilling effort.

Also: John Brennan's CIA nomination may be on a fast track to confirmation; the last cardinal for the Vatican's papal conclave will arrive soon; war-torn Syria has a million refugees; and the Duchess of Cambridge may have slipped and hinted at her baby's gender.

Also: A Senate panel prepares to vote on John Brennan's CIA nomination; North Korea threatens to call off a truce with South Korea; suspect questioned in the acid attack on the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director; Justin Bieber was so late to his concert last night his fans actually got angry at him.

Also: New budget battle looms as the sequester takes effect; Secretary of State Kerry arrives in Saudi Arabia for talks on Syria; Catholic cardinals meet to decide when to vote for a new pope; the Iditarod sled dog race is underway.

Also: Secretary of State Kerry to speak to Turkish leader over Zionism remark; ethnic fighting in Bangladesh kills many; Calif. governor will rule on parole for ex-Manson follower; and a new Van Allen belt of radiation is discovered circling Earth.

Also: Obama to talk sequester dangers at Virginia shipbuilder; Benedict XVI will receive a new title after he resigns; a rocket from Gaza lands in Israel; and there's a sudden increase in the number of teenagers killed in motor vehicle accidents.

Pope Benedict XVI writes and sends his first tweet on a new personal account, which has attracted over 1 million followers.

The GOP-backed measures, passed earlier in the day by Michigan's state House, were signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in the afternoon.

Egypt's army also warned both supporters and opponents of President Morsi that they must hold talks, otherwise Egypt will enter a "dark tunnel" leading to catastrophe — and the army won't allow it.

Zimmerman's lawsuit alleges NBC deliberately altered 911 calls he placed to a dispatcher; by rearranging the conversation, he claims the network wrongly smeared him as a racist.

The four suspects were interested in training in Taliban camps in Afghanistan; three of the suspects were arrested in California, a fourth is being held in Afghanistan.

The former CIA director will speak to Congress about events in the Benghazi attack, while Paula Broadwell, the military reserve intelligence official, loses her security clearance after classified information turns up in her possession.

Acting CEO/COO Michael Hervey will leave at the end of the year; had planned to step down before Sandy struck. N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to appoint an investigative panel to check utilities' response during and after Superstorm Sandy hit.

The FBI notified Petraeus that it was aware of his relationship with author Paula Broadwell after the two exchanged hundreds or thousands of emails.

Syrian government jets bomb Damascus suburbs and other towns to root out rebels, while Qatari prime minister delivers blistering criticism of Syrian leader Assad.

At least eight people are dead and 78 are wounded, state news media report, while victims scramble to get out of the debris. The attack, possibly a car bomb, happened on a street where a group that opposes Syrian President Bashar Assad has offices.