• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. FACTORIES GO SILENT AS NORTH ISSUES MORE THREATS
• North Korea warned foreigners in South Korea to leave because a war could be imminent as the Kaesong complex that once linked the nations became a ghost town.
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• 2. 13 KILLED IN SHOOTING SPREE NEAR BELGRADE
• Police say a 60-year-old man killed his son and then went house to house killing people in his village, before trying to kill himself and his wife.
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• 3. HOW THATCHER TRANSFORMED BRITAIN'S ECONOMY
• She introduced free-market policies that helped the country throw off its postwar malaise and helped build British financial centers with bank deregulation.
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• 4. DECISION TIME FOR DEMOCRATS ON GUN CONTROL
• Senate leaders were meeting today to assess whether a compromise on expanding background checks would work in a bipartisan deal.
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• 5. PITINO MAKES HISTORY
• He became the first coach to win NCAA titles at two schools after Louisville rallied from 12 points down to beat Michigan 82-76.
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• 6. J.C. PENNEY FIRES CEO AFTER 17 MONTHS
• Ron Johnson, brought in from Apple to turn around the department store chain, is being replaced by his predecessor.
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• 7. A TEARFUL PLEA TO SAVE BURIED CHILDREN
• "There's no way they can breathe," Jordan Arwood told a North Carolina 911 dispatcher after a 24-foot pit he dug collapsed on his daughter and a cousin.
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• 8. SCRUTINY OVER SURGICAL ROBOT
• "Da Vinci" was used in nearly 400,000 operations last year, but critics have questioned whether it had a role in several deaths.

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