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Women's antiperspirant deodorants make a lot of promises, among them round-the-clock odor-busting, wetness protection and relief from those chalky underarm marks. Now store shelves are full of deodorants that also...

To some, it may seem like an ideal relationship: less stressful than an affair, longer lived than a fling or that elusive one-night stand. You can even sit around in...

Spurred by the growing crisis in child obesity, the nation's schools have made "considerable improvements" in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government...

In the latest bout of violence around the northern oil city of Kirkuk, insurgents blew up an oil pipeline, battled a convoy carrying bodyguards of a deputy prime minister and...

When Amy Waldman first signed on to Facebook last year and started to send joking messages about good grammar back and forth with a new 18-year-old friend, Waldman's 19-year-old daughter,...

Neanderthals, an archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern human beings some 45,000 years ago, possessed a key gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA...

Swinging far above the forest floor on a zip line was a thrill, and it was over way too soon. And rappelling down a 200-foot cliff? I liked the odds....

Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build two enormous power plants, the Iraqi electricity minister said Tuesday. Word of the project...

In the quaint seaside community of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, one gray clapboard house stands out from the rest. It has a big white dome rising from the top,...

Almost from the start, it seems, human beings headed for the shore to get away from the cares at home. But this was no holiday for them. More than likely,...