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‘Shovels hit the ground’ on stimulus project, Obama says

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the country already is "seeing shovels hit the ground" on the first infrastructure repair project funded through the Transportation Department’s share of the $787 billion stimulus bill. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, “The work begins today in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a work crew is starting on a project to resurface Maryland State Highway 650 — a very busy road that has not been fully repaired in 17 years.” The resurfacing contract is going to a Pennsylvania-based family-owned company, America Infrastructure, LaHood said.

Filming the unfilmable: Zack Snyder on ‘Watchmen’

"I mean, it’s a weird movie," says "Watchmen" director Zack Snyder. "There’s no two ways about it." Never was a truer word spoken about the graphic novel adaptation that has taken 23 tortuous years to get from the page to the screen. Indeed, for many years, it was a movie that was considered impossible to make

In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege

Sirens breaking the silence of the night, cars engulfed by meter-high flames. This is not a scene from the banlieues of Paris, but from the trendy Eastern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, where in recent weeks an ongoing battle against gentrification has intensified.

Will anyone watch the ‘Watchmen’?

They have come to glimpse the miracle. They have come to witness the revolution. They have come for "Watchmen" — the allegedly unfilmable superhero movie, the long-awaited adaptation of the comic book that changed the face of comic books forever

Free computer-access project inspired ‘Slumdog’

The book "Q & A" inspired the Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire," but what inspired Indian author Vikas Swarup to write the book? Swarup says he took his cue from an experimental program giving impoverished children in India’s capital Delhi unsupervised access to computers loaded with educational software

Sub joining hunt for lost hero Amundsen’s plane

Norway’s navy announced on Monday that it will help search for the missing plane of 20th century explorer Roald Amundsen, more than 80 years after his death. The search — scheduled for later this year — will focus on a 40 square-mile (104 square-kilometer) area of the Arctic Ocean where researchers believe Amundsen’s plane crashed in 1928.

Building Green Houses for the Poor

When most people hear the term “green building,” they probably imagine something like Bank of America’s soon-to-be-completed Midtown Manhattan headquarters. The skyscraper will have floor-to-ceiling insulating glass walls, automatic light dimming, water recycling, air filtration and on-site power generation

Anti-Islam film’s maker blasts UK over ban

Controversial Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders condemned as "crazy and cowardly" Britain’s refusal to let him enter the country Thursday.

In Hard Times, Olympic Plans Go On a Budget

Work on London’s main Olympic site is progressing well. The 600-acre former industrial zone in east London that will become the focal point of the 2012 event has been transformed into Europe’s biggest construction site. Steel for shoring up the massive new stadium’s seating terraces is being installed