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We all may enjoy good buys at Target, but when friends visit, the decor they notice first is the handmade one-of-a-kind items that can't be found at the mall. The...

Bulgaria, which had been planning to legalize prostitution, abruptly reversed itself Friday, part of a broad trend in Europe to impose bans as a way to combat sexual trafficking. "We...

Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and had claims improperly denied by private insurers that run the system's huge new drug benefit program...

Buoyed and battered by globalization, people around the world strongly view international trade as a good thing but harbor growing concerns about its side effects: threats to cultures, environmental damage...

It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, the generals who...

Did you ever wonder whether those care packages they send to soldiers overseas do any good? Listen to two men who know. They served in Iraq, and said they were...

The studio distributing "The Kite Runner," a tale of childhood betrayal, sexual predation and ethnic tension in Afghanistan, is delaying the film's release to get its three schoolboy stars out...

The kiss you share with the exquisite stranger is electric, deep and seemingly endless -- that is until you open an eye and see drool on your pillow. If only...

The Kurdish regional government has reached four new oil-exploration deals, further straining relations with many Iraqi leaders in Baghdad. The new deals are the latest in an effort by the...

Harry Dent Jr., who helped devise the "Southern strategy" that was crucial to Richard Nixon's winning the White House, died Friday in Columbia, S.C. He was 77. The cause was...