AP - Artist Mark Leckey has won Britain's prestigious Turner Prize for a piece of work that draws in Homer Simpson and the Titanic movie.

AP - Barack Obama promised "a new dawn of American leadership" in a troubled world Monday, announcing a strong-willed national security team headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush.

AP - Happily contemplating another woman as the top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will offer advice, privately, and then get out of the way.

AP - The close ties with India that Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton forged during her years as a U.S. senator and presidential candidate could complicate diplomatic perceptions of her ability to serve as a neutral broker between India and its nuclear neighbor, Pakistan.

AP - The woman who wanted to be president stepped up to a podium too tall, turned the microphones down and began by addressing the man who defeated her: "Mr. President-elect."

AP - The selection of experienced centrists — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones — to head President-elect Barack Obama's national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign.