The Los Angeles Times

The pieces of Hollywood history were priced to move, even by the discount standards of eBay. Ten bucks put a bidder in the running for a dagger purportedly used in...

In a nod to criticism that it is stifling free speech during the Olympics, China intends to designate space in three public parks as "protest zones" for people to vent...

Dr. Victor McKusick, the Johns Hopkins University physician who is widely regarded as a father of medical genetics, died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86 and died...

Iraq's presidency council vetoed a newly approved provincial election law, casting doubt on the possibility that local elections will be held this year. U.S. officials have said the vote is...

The criminal charges against a Missouri woman accused of using a fake MySpace persona to bully a 13-year-old girl should be dismissed because there is no law that prohibits such...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Russia on Tuesday, cutting business deals, complaining about the United States and extolling the friendship between the two oil-rich nations. He pressed Prime Minister Vladimir...

About 10 hours before Sen. Barack Obama checked into the King David, Avi Levi was driving by the hotel and felt a yellow front-end loader strike the rear of his...

Estelle Getty, whose acting career bloomed late in life with her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Petrillo, the wisecracking mother of Bea Arthur on the popular NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls,"...

The long search for the female equivalent of Viagra has led researchers to ... Viagra. In a small study of 98 women published Wednesday, the little blue pill helped women...

India's ruling coalition survived a confidence vote by a slim margin Tuesday, keeping alive the possibility that a controversial nuclear cooperation deal with the U.S. would go ahead. After two...