EDITOR'S NOTE — Facebook begins selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. Two Associated Press business writers are debating whether the stock is a smart buy. I doubted Mark Zuckerberg when I met him more than five years ago, shortly after he rebuffed ...

LOS ANGELES — If the Los Angeles Lakers can just shake the memory of the disastrous final two minutes of Game 2, they'll find plenty of reasons from the first 46 minutes to be encouraged about their chances this weekend against Oklahoma City. After blowing a seven-point lead and the chance to ...

ATHENS, Greece, May 18 (UPI) -- Europe would be foolish to cut off funding to Greece, the head of Greece's radical left group says, but if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts, he said. "Our first choice is to convince our European partners that, in their own interest, financing must not be ...

WASHINGTON — For months, President Obama has been urging his European allies to balance their zeal for spending cuts with policies to spur economic growth. His pleas have mostly been ignored. But now, as Obama prepares to host the Group of 8 industrialized nations' summit Friday and Saturday, his ...