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Tech giant AOL is trimming its employee retirement benefits. It will stop depositing matching funds into employee 401(k) accounts each pay period. Instead it will make one annual lump-sum deposit at the beginning of the year. The company blames costs associated with the Affordable Care Act.

It's been a dreary winter but penguins should be used to it, right? Not the Humboldt penguins at the Sea Life Center in Britain. They are natives of coastal South America — far from the U.K.'s unrelenting wind and rain. They're feeling so blue that zoo staff had to prescribe antidepressants.

At Marc Jacobs' new pop-up shop in Manhattan, no cash is necessary. In exchange for Facebook posts, tweets and Instagram photos, customers can get goodies from the designer like necklaces, perfumes and purses. The shop is only open this weekend to coincide with the start of New York Fashion Week.

A Coca-Cola commercial attracted social media backlash following last Sunday's Super Bowl. It featured a multi-lingual version of "America The-Beautiful." A longer version of the commercial will air during NBC's Olympic opening ceremonies coverage. Our Code Switch Team looks at what that commercial and the conversation it triggered say about us, and what it tells us about advertisers.

While the jobless rate edged down to 6.6 percent in January from December's 6.7 percent, only 113,000 jobs were added to payrolls. That's well below what was expected.

News Corp — which publishes The Wall Street Journal — posted gains in its digital real estate and book publishing services. Still, the company is hampered with declining advertising revenues at its newspaper businesses.

A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Thursday, the 11th meeting day of the regular session:HOUSE:—Approved a bill to give deployed military…

You can cuddle them, live with them, protect them, but when animals look at you — even when they're purring or licking your face — what's really going on in their heads? In yours? A cartoonist explores this question.

The organization that hands out Rhodes Scholarships says application essays — which are often heavily edited by family, advisers and universities — no longer reflect a student's true "values and aspirations." In a new rule, the organization says that help is no longer allowed.

Thousands of people have walked out to the caves in recent weeks to inspect beautiful ice formations. It's the first time Lake Superior's ice has been thick enough to walk on in the area since 2009.