The Los Angeles Times

In the land of the rising sun, no one can seem to agree on when it does. Rise, that is. Or set, for that matter. This summer, thousands of people...

Chain hotels with cookie-cutter rooms are great if you don't want surprises. But what if you like the unexpected, a place with some panache and style? Such places take more...

Stuck in Tijuana traffic, Heather Suarez fixes her strawberry blond hair, applies her makeup and listens to country music on the car radio. This morning, she sings along. Life ain't...

Thrumpton Hall By Miranda Seymour Harper, 270 pages, $24.95 Miranda Seymour's enthralling "Thrumpton Hall" is not just another tale of restoring -- and living in the decaying magnificence of --...

Christin Ernst was in a fix. An errant screwdriver punctured her tire on a San Diego freeway, leaving her stranded. That's when Thomas Weller -- aka the San Diego Highwayman...

Four years after its athletes received a huge ovation at the first Olympics after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was told Thursday that its seven-member team would not be...

Pavan Bhatia is relaxing poolside, watching son Neil swimming in the light of a summer moon. After a long commute from downtown Los Angeles, she finds that her backyard refuge...

The legacy of Radovan Karadzic is etched here in unsmiling, mistrustful faces; on tombstones that march shoulder-to-shoulder for nearly a quarter-mile; in empty, scarred houses whose owners never returned. Karadzic's...

An experimental cancer drug shrank prostate tumors dramatically and more than doubled survival in 70 percent to 80 percent of patients with aggressive cancers, researchers report. Although the study published...

Dr. Eugene Foster, the retired pathologist who orchestrated the DNA testing that showed that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of the slave Sally Hemings' children, died Monday at the...