Breaking News & Hottest Global News without Border (Series 2)

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The Washington state man who's on a 60-day all-potato diet wishes he had set a goal of one month instead of two. Chris Voigt said that as good and healthy as potatoes are — there's only so many ways they can be prepared.

Man on all-spud diet regrets 60-day goal

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China rolled out its fastest train yet on Tuesday and announced that the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, is now generating electricity at maximum capacity — engineering triumphs that signal the nation's growing ambitions as its economy booms.

Booming China shows off its 220 mph train

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The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town quit after gunmen attacked their recently inaugurated headquarters, according to local reports on Wednesday.

Every cop in town quits after Mexico attack

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GOP leaders, more confident of winning control of Congress, plot a 2011 agenda topped by a push for $100 billion in spending cuts, tax cuts, and undoing Obama's health care law.

GOP plots 2011 Congressional agenda

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Nissan said Thursday it is recalling 2.14 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Asia for an ignition problem that may stall engines.

Nissan recalls 2 million cars worldwide

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Lisa Blount earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing Debra Winger's best friend in "An Officer and a Gentleman" in 1982 and won an Oscar in 2001 for best live-action short film as producer of "The Accountant."

Actress-producer Lisa Blount dies at 53

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A jury on Thursday convicted Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and boyfriend Howard K. Stern of conspiracy counts.

Jury convicts Anna Nicole's boyfriend, psychiatrist

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Halliburton Co. acknowledged late Thursday that it skipped doing a critical test on the final formulation of cement used to seal the BP oil well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico.

Halliburton admits skipping test on Gulf well cement

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A two-foot hole opened up in the fuselage of an American Airlines jet at 31,000 feet during a flight from Miami to Boston this week,  The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night.

Two-foot hole appears in plane at 31,000 feet

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Speculation about a supposed time traveler talking on her cell phone at a 1928 Hollywood film premiere has sped across the Internet faster than a DeLorean time machine. But a less mind-bending possibility is that she was just hard of hearing, experts say.

'Time traveler' may just be hard of hearing