The Los Angeles Times

Continental Airlines ratcheted up the race to develop alternative fuel for passenger planes last week after it successfully flew a Boeing 737 twin-engine jet powered partly by algae and weeds....

With the economy crashing, Americans are tightening their belts and automakers are ready to sell them smaller pants. On Sunday at Detroit's auto show, General Motors Corp. revealed the Spark,...

The fiery prison riot scene was over and, mopping the sweat from his brow, actor Jackie Earle Haley was heading back to his trailer in search of some lunch. It...

Here was a contest no Mexican bureaucrat wanted to win. A months-long quest to identify the most nightmarish examples of Mexico's famously nightmarish red tape ended last week with a...

The real honor roll at Hogwarts Academy in the "Harry Potter" films has nothing to do with child wizards and their magical aptitude: It's the list of esteemed British thespians...

Philip Rivers has a sore thumb. It's not on his throwing hand, and it's not on his left hand, either. It's a blemish on his otherwise spectacular season as quarterback...

Fidel's Last Days: A Novel By Roland Merullo Shaye Areheart Books, 288 pages, $23 Lawrence Ferlinghetti once quipped that since 1959, Fidel Castro had been the United States' only real...

Come on down, Stefan Lemperle says. Here, 13 feet under the ground, there's sunlight and fresh air, an open-to-the-sky patio with a rock-lined pond, a high-ceilinged lounge and a media...

(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) Harold "Hal" A. Ellis Jr., a founder of real estate services firm Grubb & Ellis Co. and one of the...

Thousands of women put their babies at needless risk of respiratory problems, hypoglycemia and other ills by scheduling Caesarean-section deliveries too early, according to an analysis of more than 13,000...