The first major change for the Super Bowl teams came Friday, with Arizona offensive coordinator Todd Haley’s hiring as the Chiefs’ coach.

BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea wants to advance nuclear disarmament steps if its aid demands are met and it played down concerns over possible missile launches, a former senior U.S. diplomat just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.

Few deals better exemplify the excesses of the real estate boom than the Equity Office empire’s dismemberment.

FC Porto host SL Benfica in the sides’ 150th league meeting on Sunday, with the Lisbon club’s Spanish coach Quique Sánchez Flores adamant the Eagles will be “very competitive” as Portugal’s top two go head to head

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – A comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan must be agreed by the NATO summit in April, U.S. national security adviser and retired Gen. James Jones told a German newspaper.

Tottenham Hotspur FC and Arsenal FC will be hoping that respective new signings Robbie Keane and Andrei Arshavin can revive their Premier League campaigns when the two north London rivals meet on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s eagerly-awaited bank rescue plan will offer to insure some distressed assets held by banks, authorize the government to purchase others, and spend up to $100 billion to buy and modify troubled homeowner mortgages, a source with knowledge of the plan told Reuters on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Securities and Exchange Commission officials looked to reassure investors on Friday that they would reinvigorate the agency’s policing of Wall Street, improve the quality of credit ratings and said they expect to bring more cases against mortgage fraud.

BOSTON (Reuters) – After losing his entire life’s savings to disgraced fund manager Bernard Madoff, 90-year-old Ian Thiermann abandoned retirement and now works the aisles of a grocery store to make ends meet.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A peanut plant in Georgia at the center of an outbreak of salmonella shipped out products managers knew might have been tainted without waiting for a second set of lab tests showing they had fixed the problem, U.S. health officials said on Friday.