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Syria's president gave his first public speech in five months Sunday. Bashar Assad told the Syrian parliament that his government was not responsible for the massacre in Houla last month that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children.

The latest season of ABC's The Bachelorette is underway, and the only black contestant is already off the show. No black person has ever been the "bachelor" or "bachelorette." Now two black men have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the reality show of racial discrimination. Host Michel Martin speaks with Cyrus Mehri, the attorney on the case.

That means Mike Hall, 31, breaks the old record by two weeks. He rode 18,000 miles, averaging 200 miles a day.

Queen Elizabeth II's husband has a bladder infection. He'll miss the last two days of Britain's four-day celebration marking the queen's 60th year on the throne.

The move may be designed to widen the network's reach and bring the millions of kids already using Facebook in line with regulators.

Among advocates for improving sanitation through better toilet access, the only question is whether to play it straight or joke about the john. Pretty much everyone seems to give in to humor.

In a case involving then-Vice President Dick Cheney's Secret Service detail, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that agents accused of a politically motivated arrest are immune from suit. But the court's unanimous ruling did little more than resolve this particular case.

In the wake of the housing crisis, many felt that homeownership — long a key element of the American dream — had moved out of reach. Now, many Americans still aspire to own their own home, and home sales are slowly ticking up around the country.

Israel's government is backing a public-relations campaign styling the country as a haven for the gay community. Israel offers many legal protections to gays in a region that is typically hostile to them. But activists say the progress came in spite of — not because of — the government

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely has found that very few people lie a lot, but a lot of people lie a little. He talks about his findings in his new book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie To Everyone — Especially Ourselves.