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China's currency, the yuan, rose against the dollar Thursday, reaching a milestone that is the latest sign of this country's growing economic power. For the first time in more than...

Doris Tillett, a textile designer who with her husband created hand-printed fabrics for some of America's most prominent decorators and also helped establish community-run textile businesses in depressed New York...

The demise of author Antoine de Saint-Exupery on a reconnaissance mission in World War II has long ranked as one of aviation's great mysteries. Now, the final pieces of the...

Dozens of Afghan men who had been held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being tried here in secret Afghan criminal proceedings based...

Young Japanese women searching for a wider role in society have no role model today. The ideal of a self-sacrificing "good wife, wise mother," according to a Japanese saying, belongs...

In another sign of a shakeout in the competitive flat-panel television market, Royal Philips Electronics, the Dutch consumer electronics giant, will no longer manufacture televisions for sale in the United...

Just about anyone who has tuned in to "American Idol" this season has seen video clips of Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell touring slums in Africa or working...

Simon Michael Bessie, who in 1959 left a top editorial position at what was then called Harper & Brothers to help found Atheneum Publishers, perhaps the last major literary house...

In a dramatic courtroom twist, Moshe Katsav, the former president of Israel, backed out of a plea agreement Tuesday that would have required him to admit sexual offenses against female...

Women are less likely than men to get a recommendation for knee replacement, a Canadian study reports, even when they have the same symptoms. The researchers selected one man and...