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Mugabe Were, a freshman parliamentarian, could have been one of the keys to unlocking Kenya's crisis, but on Tuesday he was shot dead in his driveway. Were, 39, was an...

A federal report released Tuesday says the Army Corps of Engineers charged the government hundreds of millions of dollars for supervising projects in Iraq that have been identified as having...

For the first time in a long time, Sylvia Harris has a roof over her head, money in her pocket and relative peace of mind. She has found this place,...

Doctors make the same arithmetic mistakes the rest of us make, but the consequences can be considerably more serious. Researchers tested a group of 28 doctor volunteers using a high-tech...

There is no cure for the common cold, but researchers might have found a safe and simple way to reduce a child's symptoms and the chance of recurrence: washing out...

The top two U.S. intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the CIA greater latitude to operate in the tribal territories...

With more travelers taking to the skies, it's becoming harder to find a parking spot at the airport. Long-term parking at San Francisco International Airport filled up 70 days last...

For most of the last century, the official mantra of the Chicago architecture community has been "less is more." Richard Driehaus, however, a wealthy and influential lover of the lush...

For years, some New York City co-ops that have retail space in their buildings have been doing the unfathomable. They have rented out their commercial space at bargain rents, and...

An Afghan court in the northern part of the country sentenced a journalism student to death for blasphemy for distributing an article from the Internet that was considered an insult...