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A restaurant in Sapporo, Japan, tells its customers to clean their plates. If they order the signature dish, which is all you can eat, they must eat it all or pay a fine which goes to fishermen.

CIA Director Porter Goss resigns unexpectedly, leaving behind a spy agency still battling to recover from intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as faulty information that helped bring about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

As companies continue to scale back pensions for their workers, some CEOs will earn millions of dollars annually in retirement, according to figures released by the AFL-CIO.

An estimated 2 million Americans use wheelchairs or motorized scooters. For some, obstacles such as stairs, elevated curbs and rocky terrain may no longer pose such a steep challenge. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the iBOT, a wheelchair that climbs stairs and bounds over curbs. NPR's Joe Shapiro reports.

Debt relief for Africa will be on the agenda when the leaders of the G8 nations meet in Scotland later this week. Kenya, which owes billions to foreign creditors, allocates almost a third of its budget to pay debts. But Kenya is unlikely to have its debts cancelled at the upcoming summit.

There are 35 presidential candidates and 44 parties running in Haiti's first elections since former President Jean Bertrand Aristide's ouster last year.

A new set of documents from Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito contains his argument that executive-branch officials have immunity when ordering domestic wiretaps in violation of the law. Other documents from his years at the Justice Department reveal a restrictive position on racial discrimination.

London is home to Europe's tallest building called The Shard. It sort of looks like a giant shard of glass. It stands out in the city which has a relatively low skyline.

Another year of growth was enough to edge Brazil past the stagnant United Kingdom in global economic rankings. Agriculture and food processing were the big areas of growth for Brazil.

The Newsweek journalist writes that the NYPD has become one of the world's best intelligence-gathering operations; his book Securing the City explores New York City's creation of an elite counter-terror force.