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On a sweltering morning this city's humidity turns visible in rivulets of sweat on the faces of the living. But as I stand in New Orleans' oldest extant cemetery, it...

In the musty back room of the collectibles shop he owns here, stocked with a copy of the Declaration of Independence and Ernest Hemingway's briefcase typewriter, John Reznikoff held up...

A UN human-rights team has found "convincing evidence" that some 90 civilians -- among them 60 children -- were killed in airstrikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday...

The building at 32 Kartashov St. had had enough. It once served as home to a 19th Century merchant, a little log masterpiece with ornate doors and shutters carved like...

The red-carpet area at the recent premiere of the Disney Channel's new Cheetah Girls movie looked less like the typical Hollywood cast party than some sort of UN session. Adrienne...

The Afghan Council of Ministers decided Monday to review the presence of international forces and agreements with foreign allies, including NATO and the United States, after a series of military...

A decent backyard magic show is often an exercise in deliberate chaos. Cards whipped through the air. Glasses crashing to the ground. Gasps, hand-waving, loud abracadabras. Something's bound to catch...

It's the suffering that sells. Before-and-after television needs a deep reserve of misery, and particularly on weight-loss shows the "before" returns in rhythmic waves of humiliation and self-loathing: *In a...

Dr. Hugh R. Butt, whose studies of coagulation showed Vitamin K could be highly effective in halting internal bleeding and could be used to reduce deaths among patients with jaundice,...

President Mikhail Saakashvili said Sunday that he planned to rebuild Georgia's shattered army, and that even after its decisive defeat in the war for control of one of Georgia's two...