AP - NASA said Thursday it approved a new method for crew members to attach themselves to the outside of the international space station for U.S. spacewalks, which were put on hold a day earlier.

AP - It took two multiplatinum albums, several hits and a few Grammy nominations for people to realize that the Black Eyed Peas weren't just a silly, poppy, hip-hop gimmick (and to be fair, some people still aren't convinced).

AP - Nashville goaltender Tomas Vokoun wasn't great in the shootout, just good enough.

AFP - A Russian and US astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shifted their Soyuz space vessel to a new mooring to free up docking space for the arrival of Brazil's first man in space, the Russian Space Agency said.

AP - A storm system barreled across the Plains states on the last day of winter, piling snow more than a foot deep that stalled highway and train travelers in South Dakota and Colorado and causing flooding in Texas.

AP - Jason Williams scored twice and Pavel Datsyuk added a goal and two assists to help the Detroit Red Wings stay on top in the NHL standings with a 7-3 romp over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.

AP - At the annual South by Southwest music festival, hundreds of bands often seamlessly mix in with the young, hip crowd. One of those bands, the obsessively melodic British trio Field Music, would easily go unnoticed if they weren't having their photo taken. A curious onlooker asks, "Which band are you guys?"

AP - Slobodan Milosevic was laid to rest Saturday beneath a tree at the family estate in his hometown, a quiet end for a man blamed for ethnic wars that killed 250,000 people in one of the turbulent Balkans' bloodiest chapters.

AP - Ben Stein says the people who were snubbed on Oscar night weren't the stars who were passed over for Academy Awards, but American troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Reuters - A longstanding divide between nationalist Western Ukraine and its Russian-speaking east -- the fault line in the 2004 "Orange Revolution" -- remains unhealed a week before an election with high stakes.

AP - Rachael Scdoris and her Iditarod sled dog team were navigating a treacherous cliff, crisscrossed with switchbacks, when her sled slammed into a thick spruce tree.

AP - Ben Stein says the people who truly were snubbed on Oscar night weren't those who didn't win, but were the American military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP - Arizona sent a message to anyone who considers it an underdog because of a disappointing regular season. Behind tough defense and outstanding shooting, the eighth-seeded Wildcats had little trouble against No. 9 seed Wisconsin on their way to a 94-75 victory in the Minneapolis Regional on Friday.

AP - Wisconsin-Milwaukee wavered, but never cracked. The Panthers almost never do at this time of the year. Once again showing why they've stopped surprising themselves in the NCAA tournament, the Horizon League champions pulled off their third upset in two years by eliminating No. 6 seed Oklahoma 82-74 in the Minneapolis Regional on Thursday.

AP - The Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers have pulled off their third major upset in two years, as the 11th-seeded Horizon League champions got 24 points apiece from Joah Tucker and Boo Davis to eliminate No. 6 seed Oklahoma 82-74 in the Minneapolis Regional on Thursday.

AFP - Lenovo Group, the world's third largest personal-computer company, said it would cut 1,000 jobs, or about five percent of its global workforce, as part of cost-savings plan.

AFP - Greece's national telecommunications regulator EETT fined the country's three leading mobile telephone operators one million euros (1.2 million dollars) apiece for making identical hikes in their short message service (SMS) rates a year ago.

AP - Barry Bonds, Mark Mulder and Mike Mussina nearly look ready for the regular season. Andy Pettitte, however, is just beginning to work the kinks out.

AP - Thirty-seven are under criminal investigation. Forty-one await trial. All are candidates in Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary elections.

AFP - The Russian and US astronauts leaving March 30 for the International Space Station said they would welcome the arrival of the first European to undertake a long-term mission there.