The Los Angeles Times

Why are all those women carrying buckets of water on their heads? That was the first riddle that David Coltart, Zimbabwe's new education minister, faced last month as he walked...

Alan Livingston, an entertainment industry veteran whose career included signing The Beatles while president of Capitol Records in the 1960s and creating the character "Bozo the Clown" for children's read-along...

George Hedges, the Hollywood lawyer to celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Simon Cowell who became a celebrity himself for his discoveries of the fabled ancient city of Ubar and...

Flames flickered from a metal trash can as a U.S. soldier shoved maps and other papers into the fire. A front loader carried an outhouse down a dirt lane marked...

George Hedges, the Hollywood lawyer to celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Simon Cowell who became a celebrity himself for his discoveries of the fabled ancient city of Ubar and...

Syria launched its first stock exchange in decades last week in a bid to upgrade its financial system and attract much-needed foreign investments to its growing economy. The country, which...

A team of scientists believes it has found strong evidence of liquid water on Mars, a discovery that would greatly increase the likelihood that some form of life may exist...

Alan Livingston, an entertainment industry veteran whose career included signing The Beatles while president of Capitol Records in the 1960s and creating the character "Bozo the Clown" for children's read-along...

The Pakistani government said Saturday that it had placed the armed forces on alert amid a growing power struggle with former allies and vowed anew to prevent a massive opposition...

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