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Many people have ideas for businesses, says entrepreneur Eric Ries. "But it's hard to know which [ideas] are the brilliant ones," he says, "and which are the crazy ones." The best young companies, he says, figure it out quickly.

In Mexico, drug-related violence has delayed the opening of hundreds of public schools in the coastal city of Acapulco. Teachers who say they're facing threats of extortion and kidnapping are refusing to return to their classrooms.

The Republican presidential candidate proposes a flat 9 percent income tax, corporate tax and national sales tax. It attracted the attention of Republican voters in Florida's straw poll, where Cain took first place. But economists wonder how well it would work.

The day's news includes word of a deadly listeria outbreak tied to Colorado cantaloupes and the capture of fugitive George Wright.

Why would Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?" asks an essay in a magazine thought to be produced by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

A young Republicans' event aimed at protesting an affirmative action measure sparked controversy.

The company's much-anticipated competitor to the iPad will cost $199. And Amazon is introducing a new touch-screen Kindle.

Sunshine State Republicans have long been expected to throw the 2012 GOP presidential primary-and-caucus season into its usual chaos.Reports Wednesday that legislators will schedule the state's primary on Jan. 31, a week earlier than the tentative date for the usual first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential caucuses, would accomplish that.

In recent years, Americans have become more nationalistic in their politics, shopping habits, tattoos and even video games. What's behind the rise in patriotic fervor? And is it a good thing?

Athens is hit by another wave of protests as international inspectors are due to return to Greece to weigh whether it has done enough to secure crucial bailout funds. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hints that a second Greek bailout package might have to be renegotiated.