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Q. In the house I bought, there is a chalky-looking stain on the bricks below the windows. It looks like something ran down from the windows. I tried a scrub...

More than 80 pages of newly declassified intelligence documents for the first time describe in detail an elaborate network used by Iraqis to gain entry into Iran and train under...

When Wendy Postle's two children were younger, saying "yes" gave her great joy. Yes to all those toys. The music lessons. The blowout birthday parties. But as her son and...

Alton Ellis, the smooth Jamaican singer and songwriter known as the godfather of Rock Steady, died Oct. 11 in London. He was 70 and had lived in Middlesex, England, for...

The International Monetary Fund has begun an investigation into whether its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, abused his position in connection with a sexual relationship with a subordinate. The IMF hired a...

As New York City's economy starts to experience ripple effects from the Wall Street meltdown, visitors to the city might finally be getting the upper hand when it comes to...

Sen. Ted Stevens took the witness stand in his own defense Thursday, asserting that he had never engaged in any scheme to file false disclosure forms in the Senate. In...

In a new study of a fossil fish that lived 375 million years ago, scientists are finding striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates evolved into...

Designing a successful massively multiplayer online game may be one of the supreme challenges in all entertainment. Such a game is not merely consumed, or even played. It is inhabited....

Vice President Dick Cheney was treated successfully on Wednesday afternoon for an irregular heartbeat that he experienced earlier in the day, his office announced. Cheney was treated with electric shock...