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North Korea's neighbors reacted angrily to its announcement that it plans to launch a satellite into orbit and say they suspect the effort masks plans for a long-range missile test....

The rancher's wife takes the stage in a white cowboy hat, a brown fringed shawl and an oversized silver belt buckle. Yvonne Hollenbeck, who has spent 63 years on the...

Days after Sudan's president derided international humanitarian workers here as "spies" and "thieves," three volunteers with Doctors Without Borders were kidnapped from their Darfur compound. The abductions late Wednesday appeared...

Tariq Aziz, who once represented Saddam Hussein's Iraq to the world, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in pris for his involvement in the 1992 killings of 42 merchants accused...

The most enduring and romantic legend of the Russian Revolution -- that two children of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, survived the slaughter that killed the rest of...

Jimmy Boyd, a singer best known for recording the Christmas novelty hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" in 1952 when he was 13, died Saturday. He was 70. Mr....

A ray of hope in the troubled banking sector propelled stocks to their best gain in four months Tuesday, offering investors at least temporary respite from the downturn that has...

The U.S. and South Korea on Monday began annual war games involving tens of thousands of troops, prompting North Korea to call its military into "full combat readiness," saying it...

The U.S. and South Korea on Monday began annual war games involving tens of thousands of troops, prompting North Korea to call its military into "full combat readiness," saying it...

With the president clearing the way for the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies to fund research using all kinds of human embryonic stem cells, here is a...