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The Vatican on Thursday rejected an audiotaped accusation from Osama bin Laden that Pope Benedict XVI was leading a "new crusade" against Muslims, but Italian security officials were concerned about...

There are video games that try to make you cry. There are games that gross you out. There are games that tell a sweeping story. There are games that make...

Pre-eclampsia, the high blood pressure in pregnancy that can endanger both mother and baby, may be associated with a viral infection of the fetus, an Australian study has found. Researchers...

After ruling out talks with Hamas, the militant Islamist group, the Bush administration is using Egypt as an intermediary to open a channel between Israel and representatives of the group,...

Some relationships run aground on the perilous shoals of money, sex or religion. When Shauna James' new romance hit the rocks, the culprit was wheat. "I went out with one...

A new poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers,...

Anthony Minghella, a British filmmaker who won an Academy Award for his direction of "The English Patient," died Tuesday in London. He was 54. The cause was complications of surgery...

One recent rainy afternoon, Eleanor LaFauci, 7, sat with her feet in open-toed foam slippers, admiring her toenails, freshly painted watermelon pink. "Look, we're reading an adult magazine," Eleanor told...

Serbs in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica fired weapons and threw grenades at international peacekeepers on Monday, wounding dozens of police officers and NATO troops. The clash was the...

Serbs in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica fired weapons and threw grenades at international peacekeepers on Monday, wounding dozens of police officers and NATO troops. The clash was the...