Hefty stock awards and bonuses drove total compensation up more than 20 percent for Washington’s highest-paid chief executives last year, reflecting a nationwide trend among the largest public companies. The awards came in a year when many top executives were busy steering their companies out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And for many, the packages are the last before new government rules take effect this year mandating nonbinding “say-on-pay” votes by shareholders. Read full article > >

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Stock awards and bonuses push up compensation totals

Greece suspended airmail for 48 hours to check for further packages after Athens was shaken by a second day of letter bombs aimed at foreign embassies.

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Greece Suspends Outgoing Airmail After Wave of Bombs

Two packages mailed from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat,” President Obama said Friday, as authorities focused their investigation on an increasingly lethal affiliate of al-Qaeda.

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Two packages sent from Yemen held explosives