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Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker whose latest documentary, "Standard Operating Procedure," examines the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is being pressed about a procedure of his own: paying interview subjects....

Yossi Harel, who renamed the rickety ship he commanded Exodus 1947 and sailed it to legend as a symbol of the righteousness of the mission by Jews to settle Palestine...

Terrorist attacks against non-combatants more than doubled in Pakistan from 2006 to 2007, reflecting the growing violence in the country's turbulent tribal areas and new bombings against Pakistani government officials...

New York publicist Arielle Green knows what most of her friends earn. And she does not seem particularly shy about disclosing her income -- $30,000 a year, plus overtime. At...

Henry Brant, an adventurous American composer best known for his spatial music, in which the placement of performers on the stage and at carefully specified places around a concert hall...

About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey...

The attempt to kill President Hamid Karzai on Sunday was the work of militants who had infiltrated Afghanistan's security forces and had ties to groups linked to Al Qaeda in...

Knut the polar bear cub was a sensation one year ago, a ball of adorable white fluff that seduced the nation and the world beyond, even landing on the cover...

Kate Phillips, who played mostly supporting roles on Broadway and in more than 50 films in the 1930s and '40s and who later was a co-writer of the 1958 horror...

The WB brand, born as a broadcast network in 1995 and closed in 2006, will return as an online video Web site, combining short original series with classic shows, the...