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In a move that shone a spotlight on Beijing's poor human-rights record, the European Union on Thursday gave a rights award to an outspoken Chinese activist languishing in jail. The...

Looking to improve your romantic odds? Get your date a cup of steaming coffee. That's the implication of a new study from researchers who wanted to see if there was...

This is when figure skaters want to pique, not peak. When they put together new costumes and music and a summer's worth of work and anxiously submit to the scrutiny...

Investors endured another see-saw session Thursday on Wall Street before a late wave of buying during the final 30 minutes of trading pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a...

As Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan testified before Congress on dozens of occasions over almost two decades. Time after time, lawmakers hung on his every word, soliciting the wisdom of...

The Mexican Senate on Thursday handily approved an energy reform package designed to modernize the state-owned oil monopoly and boost declining production. The seven measures, watered down from changes proposed...

The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 500 points Wednesday after a rash of negative earnings reports renewed fears that economies in the U.S. and elsewhere are headed into...

Stocks on Tuesday gave back more than half of Monday's big gains as a series of soft profit outlooks from major U.S. corporations brought economic worries back into focus for...

EBay Inc. will halt the sale of ivory on its Web sites, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday, after an investigation by an animal welfare group found the online auction giant...

In a case that has illustrated Afghanistan's drift toward a more radically conservative brand of Islam as well as the fragility of its legal system, an appeals court Tuesday overturned...