The person who gets the slice with the baby is King or Queen of the day — and has to supply the cake at the next gathering. In some circles, it implies that the person who gets the baby will be the next person to have a child.

For those of you lucky enough to be in New Orleans or another location where Mardi Gras is celebrated in its proper and glorious form, then you're well aware that today is Fat Tuesday and tomorrow is the start of Lent.

By Amy Moore Masami Hart displays on Monday the colorful babies that will be used in king cakes sold at Rao's Bakery. Tradition says the cake consumer who finds the baby is king for the day. Photo taken Monday, February 20, 2012 Guiseppe Barranco/The

The person who gets the slice with the baby is King or Queen of the day — and has to supply the cake at the next gathering. In some circles, it implies that the person who gets the baby will be the next person to have a child.

Marie Colvin's last email to me sought some advice: should she return to Libya or wait for the Syrian visa that the ambassador in London was promising her? I emailed back: “Go to Syria…more at stake there now, or maybe not.” I stare at that message in

Marie Colvin of the U.K. Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik have been killed while reporting in Homs, Syria. I want to report with great shock the sad news of the death of Marie Colvin in Syria today.

Hours before her death in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, Marie Colvin, an American reporter, described the death of a boy in telephone interviews with the BBC, CNN and Britain's Channel 4 News.

By ROBERT MACKEY Britain's Channel 4 News broadcast a telephone interview with Marie Colvin, an American journalist in Homs, Syria, on Tuesday. Hours later, she was reportedly killed. Updated | 4:10 pm As my colleagues Rod Nordland and Alan Cowell