American researchers James Rothman and Randy Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine with German-born Thomas Sudhof for their "discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other substances are transported within cells."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has led the American delegation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Bali and the East Asia Summit, which began over the weekend. Kerry was in Tokyo for security talks, and learned early last week that he would be also be visiting Malaysia and the Philippines. He has subbed in for President Barack Obama, as the White House canceled the president's planned four-nation Asian tour, in order to help deal with government shutdown in Washington
The Pentagon confirmed on Saturday night that U.S. special forces captured alive Nazih Abdul-Hamed-al-Ruqai, also known by his alias Abu Anas al Libi in Tripoli, Libya, accused by America for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed more than 220 people,
Michael Boysen, a 27-year-old from Renton, Washington who killed his grandparents with a shoelace in March, entered a modified guilty plea to charges of aggravated first-degree murder
