AP – U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the key to stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb is keeping global support for tough economic sanctions.

Reuters – Apple Inc stopped offering older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads at its German online store on Friday in a response to an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December.

LiveScience.com – It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land.

Reuters – Walgreen Co is being hit by its withdrawal from the Express Scripts Inc pharmacy network and by a much weaker-than-expected flu season, leading it to temper its expectations for the number of prescriptions it will fill this year.

Reuters – British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama will meet in Washington next month to discuss Afghanistan, Iran and the Middle East as well as economic growth, the White House said on Friday.

AP – Steven Tyler says he meant to sing the national anthem like that.

AP – The European Union is bracing for another potential energy crisis in the dead of winter as Russian gas supplies to some of its member states suddenly have dwindled by up to 30 percent.

It was one of those cases that seemed straight out of pulp fiction, a noir mystery written by one of those hard-boiled scribes who liked to surround damsels in distress with mobsters and movie stars.  Yet it was real life.

AP – Hackers claim to have intercepted and leaked a sensitive conference call between cybercrime investigators at the FBI and Scotland Yard.

HealthDay – FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) — A series of specific “yes” or
“no” questions could help doctors distinguish between people who have
normal memory loss that comes with age and those with a condition known as
amnestic mild cognitive impairment, according to a new study.