PepsiCo plans to spend up to $600 million more on marketing this year to improve sales in North America and will lay off about 3% of its global work force to pay for it as part of a much-anticipated strategic overhaul.

The Treasury Department is weighing the sale of stakes it owns in hundreds of smaller banks, potentially accelerating the government's exit from the financial-system rescue and the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Scripps Networks Interactive said fourth-quarter profit edged up 3.4%. The operator of cable channels including HGTV and Food Network reported double-digit growth in advertising revenue and stronger affiliate-fee revenue.

Most Iowans — 64 percent — think things in the nation are on the wrong track. Even among Democrats, enthusiasm is muted, with just 56 percent saying the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 30 percent of all respondents.

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Benedict, who turns 85 in April, read a long homily in a hoarse voice and appeared weary on the third day of public rituals for the new cardinals.

Iranian warships enter the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal for only the second time since the country's revolution in 1979.

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Whitney Houston's voice still soars

ROME — Lawyers for survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship on Saturday pressed for new drug tests on the ship’s captain after traces of cocaine were reportedly found on the outside of a hair sample.