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Chocolate's dark mood is lightening at last. Until recently, midnight-black, bittersweet bars with punishing percentages of cacao were, like coffee and wine, on a quest for brooding intensity. Now, some...

Despite soothing words from Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general who is trying to mediate a solution to Kenya's political crisis, it appeared Friday that Kenya is stuck. The...

The presumptive successor to President Vladimir Putin presented his platform for seeking Russia's highest office Friday, giving a speech to business leaders in Siberia in which he vowed to continue...

A British appeals court said Thursday that a pilot whom U.S. authorities had suspected of training some of the 9/11 hijackers terrorist attacks had been "completely exonerated." The pilot, who...

The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party said Wednesday that South African President Thabo Mbeki had failed as a mediator in setting the groundwork for fair elections in Zimbabwe and...

Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, facebook.com said Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social...

James Woodyard has no problem starting small. "I rented a bedroom in the Hamptons in 2001," he said. "That gave me the idea of having a second home." So, Woodyard,...

Two years ago, when beauty bloggers called makeup companies to request free samples, many calls went unreturned. "Bloggers' inquiries for products started out as an annoyance," said Alison Brod, whose...

Americans are spending more money than ever to treat spine problems, but the backs aren't getting better. Those are the findings of a report in the Journal of the American...

When a woman complains of genital pain so severe that it makes sexual intercourse all but impossible, her partner may jump to the conclusion that she has a phobia about...