The Los Angeles Times

President George W. Bush has agreed to a "general time horizon" for withdrawals of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the White House announced Friday, in a marked softening of his...

Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will name South African judge Navanethem Pillay the next United Nations human-rights commissioner, according to diplomats and UN officials. The appointment of Pillay, an appeals...

Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of soldiers during World War II and whose recordings made the pop music charts dozens of times in the 1950s, died Wednesday...

David Duval? Yep. He's ranked No. 1,087 in the world (tied with Dismas Indiza of Kenya). He has played 12 tournaments in 2008, missed 10 cuts, withdrawn once, finished 60th...

There's a glorious early theme for the 137th British Open: misery. "Miserable, miserable, miserable," Vijay Singh said of the weather. "Bloody miserable," Craig Parry said. "It's not a fun topic...

Green roofs are good. They clean the air, cool the house below, provide rest stops for birds and butterflies. If you work well with wood and want to try a...

Chickens in Geraldo Pinera's garden will be on his family's dinner table soon, stewed with herbs and tomatoes and garnished with creamy slices of the avocados now ripening on two...

John McCain ventured into solid Barack Obama territory Wednesday when he addressed the 99th annual convention of the country's venerable civil rights organization, the NAACP. He did not draw the...

John McCain ventured into solid Barack Obama territory Wednesday when he addressed the 99th annual convention of the country's venerable civil rights organization, the NAACP. He did not draw the...

A long-running comparison of three diet plans found that the low-carbohydrate Atkins regimen and a Mediterranean diet rich in fish and nuts produced slightly greater weight loss than a low-fat...