From the Wires

Reuters: Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it “kills” him not to be president.

CNN: Groupon fired Andrew Mason as chief executive officer.

CBSnews.com: Today, when President Obama signs the order, the so-called sequester will take effect, and $85 billion in automatic 2013 spending cuts will begin rolling in.

Reuters.com: Scientists are teaming up with technology gurus from Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs.

CNET: San Francisco-based startup Koozoo wants cameras to record your every move in public to anticipate your needs.

Reuters.com: The thoughts of a rat romping around a lab in Brazil were captured by electronic sensors and sent via Internet to the brain of a rat in the United States.

CBSnews.com: Pope Benedict XVI has left Vatican City for the last time. He will return — not as Pope Benedict XVI, but as Pope Emeritus — a retired man.

AP: For many observant Muslim women, manicures have been a problem as it prevents water from making contact with nails in pre-prayer hand and arm washing five times a day.

Reuters: More than 200 businesses will urge the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a federal law that restricts the definition of marriage to heterosexual union.

Reuters:  A luxury real estate revival is being fueled, in part, by another resurgence: so-called jumbo mortgages – those loans, typically over $417,000, that are too big to qualify for purchase by federal agencies.