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Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a new way to help resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program during an extraordinary meeting with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's...

To hear some education professionals talk about it, the U.S. News & World Report college guide is evil -- an adjective one college president actually used to describe the annual...

When Amber Barlaan got her first tattoo, it was a tiny heart inked in a spot that can't readily be seen by strangers. Before heading to Tulane University this fall,...

Carol Bruce, a promising stage actress and singer from the 1940s who became best known late in her long career as Mama Carlson, the ruthless station owner on the CBS...

On a cordoned-off street in the heart of this city, Aleksandr Pushkin, Russia's great 19th Century poet, watched an unusual sight before his carved stone eyes. Not the hundreds of...

For Whitney Hess, a 25-year-old software designer in New York, the tension that ultimately ended her recent relationships was all right there, in the digits on her pay stub. The...

If the Benton MacKaye Trail is a ribbon of dirt blazed through the wildest stretches of southern Appalachia, then the turn-off trail to Owen Vista is little more than a...

Tensions mounted Monday along the Iraqi-Turkish border as the Turkish government sought parliamentary approval for military raids into northern Iraq. The vote in parliament would permit Turkish armed forces to...

Death rates from cancer have been dropping by an average of 2.1 percent a year recently in the United States, a near doubling of decreases that began in 1993, researchers...

In the beauty parlors that are the social hubs for black women in the Carolinas, loyalties are being tested as voters here contemplate the first 2008 Democratic primary in the...