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North Korea has begun reassembling its main nuclear complex, its only known source of bombmaking plutonium, the South Korean government said Wednesday. The North announced last week that it had...

A Canadian study suggests that mothers living near highways are more likely to give birth to preterm or low-birth-weight babies. But contrary to previous studies, it found the association only...

The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure,...

It's finally here. After months of hype, rumor and gossip, the updated "90210" debuts at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the CW. What better way to herald its arrival than to...

Walter "Killer" Kowalski, one of professional wrestling's biggest stars and most hated villains when wrestlers offered a nightly menu of mayhem in the early years of television, died Saturday in...

Some Israelis have described being moved almost to tears by a rare viewing of the Great Isaiah Scroll, on exhibit this summer in Israel for the first time in 40...

Aug. 12 began as a hot morning in Aylesford, Kent, England, only to be followed by a powerful thunderstorm in the afternoon. Meanwhile, the blackberries were beginning to redden. Aug....

Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received scant public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President George W. Bush's...

-- Kneeling on the dining room floor, Evan Lattimer sliced open a cardboard box and braced herself for what might be inside: a lock of human hair, a half-smoked cigar,...

On a recent Monday afternoon, as the ballyhooed new designs of Gap's fall collection by Patrick Robinson began appearing at its store on 5th Avenue and 54th Street, a line...