Laurie Goering

Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that the South African government must awaken from its "denial" over the widespread AIDS crisis, and he pledged to set an example for men across...

Gary Burns grew up selling souvenirs at Comiskey Park and moved on to first-base season tickets and postgame beers at Shinnick's. So when the lifelong Southwest Sider moved to South...

Kenyans love sugar. Despite widespread poverty that can make it hard to afford, the average Kenyan downs 40 pounds of it each year, and no cup of Kenyan coffee or...

An overflow crowd of parishioners gathered to celebrate the pontiff's life Sunday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception as a steady rain fell outside. "I feel very, very touched,"...

After many years of marriage, Aceng Lodah's husband took a young second wife. But the girl grew gaunt and died after only a few years. Then Lodah's husband died as...

Each morning, Khoali and Khoolinyane Molalili rise at 5 a.m., splash frigid water from an old plastic basin on their faces, cook a small tin pot of corn porridge for...

Celebratory gunfire erupted in the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday night as word spread that Saddam Hussein's two sons, Udai and Qusai, had been killed after a standoff with coalition...

A U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed and eight were wounded Thursday in an attack southwest of Baghdad, while two other American soldiers were apparently seized in an anti-coalition hot...

A day after a jubilant crowd helped pull down a Saddam Hussein statue in a symbolic end to his regime, Baghdad residents woke up in a more somber mood Thursday,...

The symbols and substance of Saddam Hussein's 24-year reign crumbled Wednesday in the streets of Baghdad, with jubilant civilians helping U.S. forces pull down a mammoth statue of the Iraqi...