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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. MALAYSIA DISPUTES REPORT THAT MISSING PLANE KEPT FLYING
• The country's defense minister denies a newspaper report that engine data from the missing Boeing 777 indicated it may have kept flying for hours after its last communication.
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• 2. DEATH TOLL NOW AT 6 IN NYC APARTMENT BLAST
• The rescue efforts have been hampered by cold, rainy weather, and the massive piles of debris.
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• 3. TRAGEDY AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST
• Police say two people were killed after a drunken driver crashed through barricades set up for the festival on a crowded street. More than 20 others were hurt, five critically.
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• 4. WHO'S AT RISK IN PAKISTAN'S BIGGEST CITY
• In Karachi, 44 police officers were killed in the first two months of the year. Authorities blame the Pakistani Taliban and affiliated militant groups.
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• 5. WHY A JUDGE DISMISSED CHARGES AGAINST INDIAN DIPLOMAT
• The ruling says the envoy -- whose arrest and strip-search in New York City caused an international flap -- had diplomatic immunity.
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• 6. IT'S ALL IN A NAME
• A trademark dispute for the Schlafly family: Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly doesn't like the last name being used for a brewery co-founded by her nephew.
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• 7. MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT GM RECALL
• The automaker initially excluded the Saturn Ion from a recall for faulty ignition switches, despite fatal crashes involving the car.

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