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▼Chairman, 3 others out in Yahoo board shake-up (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com12012-02-07 22:55:40world / news.yahoo.com / 

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2004 file photo, Roy Bostock, chairman of the Partnership for a Drug Free America, speaks during a news conference in New York. Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 announced taht Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo since 2008, and three longtime board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the Internet company's revenue and stock price. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, submitting to the demands of many frustrated shareholders who blame them for not fixing the problems dragging down the Internet company's revenue and stock price.


▼Court overturns California gay marriage ban, appeal planned (Reuters)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com22012-02-07 22:03:10world / news.yahoo.com / 
Reuters - An appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case that may lead to a showdown in the Supreme Court.
▼Find puppy love (cats too) through Meet Your Match (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com32012-02-07 22:18:54world / news.yahoo.com / 

In this Jan. 30, 2012 photo, executive director of the Richmond SPCA, Robin Starr, holds TeeJay, a schnauzer, one of the animals available for adoption as part of the Meet Your Match program at the facility in Richmond, Va. Move over, eHarmony and Match.com, and head to your local animal shelter to Meet Your Match. The color-coded program evaluates shelter pets and the people looking to adopt them in an effort to match personalities, energy levels and needs. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places?


▼CDC: Bread beats out chips as biggest salt source (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com42012-02-07 22:15:49world / news.yahoo.com / 

A customer samples some fresh baked bread at a grocery store in Cincinnati on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Nearly all Americans consume much more sodium than they should, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Most of the sodium comes from common restaurant or grocery store items. Some foods that are consumed several times a day, such as bread, add up to a lot of sodium even though each serving is not high in sodium. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips.


▼4 Yahoo board member including chair leaving (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com52012-02-07 22:14:52world / news.yahoo.com / 
AP - Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the Internet company's revenue and stock price.
▼Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com62012-02-07 22:14:08world / news.yahoo.com / 

Karen Handel speaks during an interview in Atlanta Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Handel announced earlier her resignation as vice president for public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly to multiple fronts on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


▼AG: Bail rules should keep Sandusky inside home (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com72012-02-07 21:39:53world / news.yahoo.com / 
AP - Prosecutors asked Tuesday to have Jerry Sandusky kept indoors as part of his bail conditions, citing complaints that the former Penn State football assistant was seen outside and watching children in a schoolyard from the back porch of his home, where he remains under house arrest while awaiting trial on child molestation charges.
▼Correction: GOP Campaign story (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com82012-02-07 21:24:16world / news.yahoo.com / 
AP - In a Feb. 6 story about the Republican presidential campaign, The Associated Press mischaracterized the Obama administration's directive regarding birth control and religious institutions. The directive requires church-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their employees regardless of the institutions' religious beliefs.
▼Giants lauded as Super Bowl champs in NYC parade (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com92012-02-07 20:49:22world / news.yahoo.com / 

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy during a ceremony for the NFL football Super Bowl XLVI champions at City Hall in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Thousands of fans roared as New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team's Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float Tuesday during a victory parade through New York City, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg quipped should now be nicknamed the "Big Blue Apple."


▼Coroner rules Don Cornelius' death a suicide (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com102012-02-07 20:48:18world / news.yahoo.com / 

FILE - This Monday, March 6, 2006 file photo shows Don Cornelius at his office in Los Angeles. Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show 'Soul Train,' died Wednesday morning, Feb. 1, 2012 at his home in Los Angeles, police said. He was 75. Coroner's officials announced Tuesday that they had ruled Cornelius' death a suicide and that the 'Soul Train' founder killed himself with a gunshot wound to the head. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - Coroner's officials on Tuesday ruled Don Cornelius' death a suicide, nearly a week after the "Soul Train" creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head.


▼Russia pushes Syria reforms as bloodshed mounts (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com112012-02-07 20:50:55world / news.yahoo.com / 

Pro-Syrian regime supporters wave Syrian and Russian flags as they cheer a convoy believed to be transporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Thousands of Syrians waving Russian flags cheered Russia's foreign minister as he arrived in Damascus Tuesday for talks with embattled President Bashar Assad on the country's escalating violence. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP - Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials pushed for reforms Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, promoting a settlement to end the uprising without removing him from power.


▼Obama risks Catholic vote with birth-control mandate (Reuters)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com122012-02-07 20:19:25world / news.yahoo.com / 
Reuters - Dr. Joe Casillas, an obstetrician in Southern California, routinely prescribes birth control for his patients. Though he's a practicing Catholic, he doesn't follow his church's stern warning that contraception is a sin. He believes women should have access.
▼Key House panel advances Keystone pipeline plan (Reuters)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com132012-02-07 20:26:36world / news.yahoo.com / 
Reuters - A plan to fast-track the stalled Keystone XL pipeline was passed by a key committee in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, as Republicans made yet another attempt to spur approval of the project that has become a major issue in the 2012 elections.
▼K5 Images of the Year (2011) Yahoo! News: Top Stories Yahoo! News Court: CA gay marriage ban is unconstitutional (AP)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com142012-02-07 19:50:41world / news.yahoo.com / 
Over the past year I have meticulously scoured the entire internet in search of the finest images available anywhere on earth. The results of my laborious and time consuming research can be found in the following list: Top Stories

Robin Tyler, right, who with her partner Diane Olson, not shown, became the first same-sex couple to wed in Los Angeles County in 2008, sits with her attorney Gloria Allred as they learn about the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on the validity of gay marriage, in Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The federal appeals court declared California's same-sex marriage ban, passed as Proposition 8 in 2008, to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.


▼Romney's lead dips despite wins: Reuters/Ipsos poll (Reuters)
Provided by: news.yahoo.com152012-02-07 20:08:18world / news.yahoo.com / 

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign event in Centennial, Colorado February 6, 2012. The Colorado caucuses take place February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - Despite his strong showing in early voting contests in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's support among Republicans nationwide has dipped slightly during the past month, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.


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