2. President Barack Obama says Congress can keep across-the-board cuts from taking effect with just a little bit of compromise. Unless Congress acts, $85 billion in cuts will go into effect Friday. 

 

3. Pope Benedict's decision to resign has set off a round of mudslinging that now appears to have brought down the highest-ranking Catholic leader in Britain. Cardinal Keith O'Brien says he will not participate in the conclave to elect the next Pope after being accused of improper conduct with priests. 

 

4. And you will be forgiven if you think these new tunnels look like something out of the Swiss Alps. The soon to be opened tunnels near California's Devil's Slide are unlike any others in the US.