Former 2003 Horse of the Year Azeri will be making news at another auction soon.

Christmastime and the new year send television into overdrive with specials and holiday-themed episodes. What stands out? Here's a look at noteworthy programs and a countdown to the most special of all specials.

CINCINNATI — It spread like a cold virus through a day care center.

Prosecutors charged the owners of a group of Vietnamese restaurants Wednesday with allegedly cooking their books to hide the pay and hours of immigrant workers, sending a stern warning to eateries that commit similar violations.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Wednesday to head off Indian retaliation against Pakistan for the Mumbai terrorist attacks as the U.S. stepped up pressure on Islamabad to cooperate "transparently, urgently and fully" in tracking down the perpetrators.

Extendicare, the large health-care chain that owns the Richmond nursing home where the staff was videotaped abusing and neglecting an 84-year-old Alzheimer's patient, has big plans to profit from the aging of the Baby Boomers.

The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn.

On the eve of congressional hearings, union leaders agreed to give the Big 3 carmakers more time to make pension contributions and will suspend a program that let laid-off workers collect most of their salary. But key congressional leaders still weren't willing to say whether the carmakers will get the aid they are seeking.