With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.

President-elect Barack Obama's potential Cabinet began to take shape today, as two sources close to the transition team said that New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the Treasury secretary post. Sources also said that Gov. Bill Richardson is a serious contender for commerce secretary.

Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama earlier this year, a Verizon source told CNN on Friday.

Three police officers in Houston, Texas, have been temporarily transferred from patrol duty to desk jobs after claims of assault against the father of Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver, authorities said Friday.

Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.

A cancer treatment that comes in a pill is as effective as the standard chemotherapy for lung patients who had previously been treated for their cancer, according to a study released Thursday.

For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain.

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Two years ago, Karen Daniel was wider around than she was tall.

The State Department called on Iran on Friday to pony up any information it has on a former FBI agent who vanished there last year.

A white teen convicted of murdering four blacks, including two children, in a racist killing spree in South Africa's North West province was sentenced Friday to four life terms in prison.

In post-Katrina New Orleans, four out of every 10 suspects arrested for homicide walk free without being charged, the district attorney says. That's what happened in the case of 23-year-old Ryan McClure, whose killer is still at large in the Louisiana city that has more murders per capita than any other in the country.

Students here in Cambridge watched in horror in September 2005 as they saw lines of desperate people snaked round the convention center and the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after he apparently had a fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for Department of Justice.

Construction work has stopped on Europe's tallest building after developers said their lofty ambitions had been hit by the global financial crisis, a Russian news agency reported Friday.

Furry signs of a down-trending economy peer dolefully from every kennel at the Broward County Humane Society shelter in Florida and hundreds of others across the country.

Iraqis outraged by a proposed security pact between Iraq and the United States staged an angry but peaceful protest against the deal Friday.

Nebraska lawmakers voted today to change a controversial safe-haven law intended to protect infants, but that made the state a magnet for parents with troubled teens. Thirty-five children -- all but six of them older than 10 -- have been dropped off at Nebraska hospitals since the law took effect in September. Lawmakers amended the law to say that no child older than 30 days can be dropped off.

Mexican authorities have detained the country's former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico's attorney general said today. Noe Ramirez Mandujano is accused of meeting with members of a drug cartel while he was in office and agreeing to provide information on investigations in exchange for the bribes.

More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff.