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Martin Balin, one of six Vietnam War protesters whose plot to set fire to six buildings in Manhattan in 1970 was derailed at the last moment by undercover police, died...

Thomas Humphrey, an American luthier whose innovative designs and building techniques helped increase the volume, sustaining power and projection of the soft-spoken classical guitar, and whose instruments were played by...

Hazel Court, a British actress who began as a popular ingenue and became a cult figure as a "scream queen" in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic, died...

President Vladimir Putin, who during eight years of centralized rule has kept his private life largely sealed from view behind the Kremlin's walls, on Friday bluntly dismissed rumors that he...

Joseph Solman, a painter who, with Mark Rothko and other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s and, into a new century, continued to paint in his...

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe used a characteristically fiery speech in marking the anniversary of the country's independence from Britain on Friday, casting the dispute over the country's elections as...

John E. Herlitz, an automobile designer who styled a signature American muscle car and left his imprint on many notable Chrysler Corp. models of the late 20th Century, died March...

Edward N. Lorenz, a meteorologist who tried to predict the weather with computers but instead gave rise to the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday at his home in...

It sounds like something a Zen master might ask: How does the wool come off a sheep? But when you have a squirming 100-pound yearling between your knees, a roaring...

Is your bathtub dull, chipped, rusty or just plain dreary? There are alternatives to hauling out that 800-pound elephant and replacing it. It can be refinished or covered with an...