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Soaring oil prices will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year's end, according to an American federal oversight agency. But...

The private jet industry has long struggled against the stereotype of the typical user as a well-off guy in a big corporate jet. But as the National Business Aviation Association...

On a February day in 1989, a young woman walked into a show at the National Gallery of Art here, whipped out a pellet gun and fired two shots into...

Little or no cooking is one way to keep the kitchen cool in the summer, but if the food you produce is cool (and delicious, of course), that's a real...

Ladies! Behold the splendor of the nude male form: sleek and powerful, a miracle of sculpted sinew, striding confidently across the sand or stretching out before you in ever-uncoiling glory....

State labor investigators have identified 57 underage workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal charges against...

In the popular imagination, a gamer is a caffeine-fueled 26-year-old with a paunch, the local pizza place on speed dial and a hard drive full of Internet pornography. And, yes,...

Aides organizing President George W. Bush's trip to China for the Olympic Games considered having him worship at a house church, one of the underground religious institutions that routinely face...

David Popper, a seasoned U.S. diplomat who, as ambassador to Chile in the tense early years of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's government, struggled to balance military and human-rights concerns, died July...

By the time he died in 1944, the designer Paul Poiret -- abolisher of the corset, champion of the pantaloon, purveyor of Belle Epoque fantasia -- had been doomed to...