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Wayne Frost, a hip-hop pioneer known as Frosty Freeze who helped inspire a worldwide break-dancing craze in the early 1980s as a member of the influential group Rock Steady Crew,...

Chinese officials said Wednesday that they are grappling with ethnic unrest on a second front, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims protested Chinese rule late last month...

There is a question that invariably comes up whenever people learn of the firehouse here that has been converted into a home, and respectful of our refined and cultivated readership,...

Casting aside partisan differences, Senate Democratic and Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would work urgently on a package of legislation to help millions of homeowners at risk of foreclosure....

You cannot say enough about falafel. These seasoned fritters are among the best things you can make with chickpeas, they are easy and rewarding to fry (perfect for novice deep-fryers)...

Roadside bombings of American troops in Iraq were occurring with unnerving regularity when military investigators made a disturbing discovery: U.S.-made computer circuits sold to a trading company in the United...

As fierce as competition can get in the marketplace, the fight is seldom fought with blades -- except, of course, when it comes to the battle between razor companies. Gillette,...

Knowing how to roast a chicken is unquestionably a valuable skill, and so is roasting vegetables. So why not combine them? The resulting dish is a crisp, nicely browned bird...

An eye roll, a glare, a dismissive snort -- these are the tactics of the workplace bully. They don't sound like much, but that's why they are so insidious. How...

Militiamen with the Mahdi Army, the followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, mostly vanished from the streets of Basra on Monday, a day after he ordered them to halt fighting...