| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Comatose for 42 years: A tale of love and miracles | | Since Christmas 1969, her family held vigil, awaiting the day Edwarda O'Bara would awake from her coma. That miracle never came. But thousands were drawn to the power of a promise kept -- and a mother's love for her stricken daughter. |
| Asteroid | | On a day when global doomsday predictions failed to pan out, NASA had more good news for the Earth: An asteroid feared to be on a collision course with our planet no longer poses a threat. |
| Gun debate | | The National Rifle Association made clear Sunday it will not budge on its opposition to any new gun laws, despite heated criticism of the organization's response to the Connecticut school massacre. |
| Steve Jobs' yacht | | The megayacht that Steve Jobs commissioned in the final years of his life has been impounded in Amsterdam after a payment dispute involving the designer, Philippe Starck. |
| Fiscal cliff | | President Barack Obama spoke separately Friday with Speaker John Boehner and the top Senate Democrat to try to salvage a fiscal cliff deal by the end of year, after Republican disarray in the U.S. House put the negotiations in limbo. |
| Egypt | | In a poll preceded by deadly protests, Egyptians approved a constitution drafted by a Muslim-dominated assembly, unofficial results show. |
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