An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime." Physicians for Human Rights, ...

Joe Biden was always in charge when he was a boy, his younger sister said. Not because he bullied the other kids, but because he appealed to their "better angels." "He was always the guy who led the ...

A Time magazine report this week revealed that the Clinton administration left the Bush team detailed proposals to roll back al Qaeda. However, the Bush administration disputes the newsmagazine's ...

The happy hour regulars were already gathering at Stooges Bar & Grill less than two hours before tip-off at Tuesday night’s University of Kentucky men’s basketball season opener.

A second typhoon in a week is barreling into the Philippines, with more than 900,000 residents warned to flee the looming destructive winds and life-threatening storm surges.

The appalling revelations of clerical sexual abuse in Belgium over the past 30 years include the case of a former bishop who abused two of his nephews. The length of Leo’s meeting with survivors – ...

Kennedy's doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday that the preliminary results from the brain biopsy showed a tumor in the left parietal lobe was responsible for the seizure.

The mood at the annual meeting in the ski resort of Davos, which gets under way Wednesday January 28, is considered a key barometer of the economic weather ahead. And with the ban ...

"Many homes are filled with irritants, and if there's a high enough count of an irritant, you'll react," says Christopher Randolph, MD, an allergy expert at /topics/Yale_University" ...

No deal on global warming as climate talks collapse. THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- United Nations climate talks have collapsed in disarray with no deal reached to stop global warming.

Syria and Iraq each recalled their ambassadors from the other country Tuesday, after Baghdad demanded that Damascus hand over two suspects in last week's deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital. Syrian ...

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias presented an updated proposal to end the Honduran political crisis, but its adoption seemed unlikely, as one side described the talks as "failed" and the other asked ...