AP - Alfonso Soriano and the Washington Nationals were stuck in a holding pattern Tuesday. The team had a day off, and no one seems to know whether he will agree to move from second base to left field.

AP - Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country's eastern coast Monday.

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 - Wichita State stuck it to the critics of the Missouri Valley Conference with an easy win to open the NCAA tournament.

A group of twelve elderly people have been stuck on the upper floors of a care home since Christmas Day because a lift has broken down, it emerges.

Reuters - In southern Louisiana, thousands of battered cars and trucks lie overturned, stuck in the mud, lodged on fences or crushed under houses demolished by Hurricane Katrina more than half a year ago.

A wayward barge got stuck under the U.S. Route 50 bridge over Maryland's Severn River, closing traffic, officials said Tuesday.

A wayward barge got stuck under the U.S. Route 50 bridge over Maryland's Severn River, closing traffic, officials said Tuesday.

AFP - Major currencies remained stuck in narrow ranges against each other, reflecting a quiet start to the week and ahead of some key US data in the coming days.

Reuters - Police charged an Australian driver with "reversing further than necessary" after he travelled backwards for more than 40 km along one of the country's busiest highways.

AP - Michael Finley was stuck in a corner with the shot clock running down when he found an escape route along the baseline. Then he came face to face with another obstacle — all 7-foot-6 of Yao Ming.

AP - Friday's surge in stock prices was very welcome for investors who feared that concerns over interest rates and the economy could send the markets substantially lower ahead of the Federal Reserve's meeting at the end of March.

AFP - Major currencies were stuck in very narrow ranges against each other -- with the dollar staying well bid and sterling on the back foot.

AFP - Major currencies were stuck in very narrow ranges against each other -- with the dollar staying well bid and sterling on the back foot.

AFP - Italy's new central bank chief described the Italian economy as "stuck in the sand" but that it was not in an "inescapable decline" after growth stagnated in 2005.

Reuters - General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T), the world's two largest automakers, have agreed to extend a partnership for advanced technology collaboration, GM said Thursday.

AFP - Inflation in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, remained stuck at 2.1 percent in February, fractionally higher than the European Central Bank would like.

A group of rescuers were saved in the Philippines Thursday after getting stuck in mud while recovering a body from last Friday's mudslide that is feared to have killed more than 1,000 people, many of them children.

Reuters - Related to the 1986 Billy Crystal-Gregory Hines buddy cop movie in name only, "Running Scared" marks "The Cooler" director Wayne Kramer's brazen march into Tarantino territory, but the concussive, hyper-violent results would have benefited from a lot less pulp and better fiction.

Reuters - A key witness at the Enron trial stuck to his claim that former CEO Jeffrey Skilling lied about the health of the company's cash-burning Internet division, even as the defense poked holes in his testimony on Thursday.