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The combined airline would offer 1,000 daily flights to more than 145 destinations in 19 countries and directly add 10,000 jobs by 2026. But consumer advocates have their doubts.

The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Broadway celebrated its best Sunday night at the 62nd annual Tony Awards. The honor for Best Musical went to In the Heights, a celebration of life in a Latino neighborhood in Manhattan. But the most awards went to South Pacific, a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.

An $80 million auction sale of a work by Claude Monet illustrates that while most ordinary people are cutting out non-essential spending, wealthy art collectors aren't. The weak dollar is one reason why a very small group of ultra-rich buyers is keeping the high-end art market alive.

The president of Georgia Tech University, Wayne Clough, is named the new head of the Smithsonian Institution on Saturday. He becomes the 12th secretary in the institution's history. When he begins in July, he'll face myriad management and financial obstacles.

Writers in New York and Los Angeles voted to lift a strike order, clearing the way for them to report to work on Wednesday. They will formally approve their new three-year deal over the next couple of weeks. With one fight resolved, the studios will next face the unions representing actors.

The Washington Post garnered the most Pulitzer Prizes this year with six. They included the prize for public service for reporting on the deplorable conditions for wounded servicemen and servicewomen at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Police in Switzerland recover two Impressionist paintings stolen from a Zurich, Switzerland, art museum. The paintings were found inside an abandoned car near the museum.

The Broadway stagehands strike is over. Meanwhile, the Hollywood writers strike continues, and strike by news writers looms.

Prolific diarist Robert Shields died on Oct. 15 at his home in Dayton, Wash., at 89. His journal is estimated to contain more than 37 million words.