The Los Angeles Times

"The Dark Knight," the biggest box office champ of the decade, could become the first superhero movie to win the best picture Oscar. Christopher Nolan's lauded "Batman Begins" sequel got...

For years, Oregon has been diligent about reducing the state's dependence on fossil fuels, but its environmental consciousness has come at a big price -- gas tax revenues are down...

With jets streaking overhead and explosions thundering in the distance, the Greek surgeon stood Sunday beside a stalled convoy carrying blood bags and syringes, hoping to slip through the black...

There are those who will see "Revolutionary Road," the long-awaited re-teaming of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, as some deeply troubling coda to their famed cine-love in the top-grossing movie...

Who was that masked man? Fifteen years after his uprising shocked Mexico's status quo, and a year after he more or less dropped out of public view, Subcomandante Marcos made...

As Shiite pilgrims made their way to a holy shrine in Baghdad on Sunday to mark one of the sect's most important religious holidays, a suicide bomber detonated her explosives...

Before patients go under the knife, they're often marked with a pen to denote where the surgeon will cut. Because of fears of bacterial contamination between patients, the pens --...

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Iran on Saturday for a two-day visit with top leaders, in which he is expected to allay Iranian's concerns about the United States'...

The Cardinals were skipping like giddy children released from school, practically bouncing down the tunnel on the way to their locker room, buffeted by the uncommon wall of sound at...

Gideon Gono prints money, lots and lots of money that's worth next to nothing. Depending on whom you talk to, the architect of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation is a megalomaniac, a workaholic,...