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"Finally, a mortgage I can afford." That was more or less the thought of thousands of people around the country who read online about an old, sprawling, two-story farmhouse in...

Gathering in group homes and college dormitories, in rural woods and apartment buildings, a growing number of young Jews are spurning traditional synagogues and forming worship communities that blend ancient...

It is being called the "royal romp." A couple were arrested April 26 for stripping off their clothes and having sex on the lawn of Windsor Castle, one of the...

At a trendy pub in this cosmopolitan IT capital, Hemangini Gupta, 28, and some of her girlfriends were relaxing and having cocktails recently after work. A group of Hindu men...

It's probably good that Charlotte isn't around to learn that her marvelous web has been improved upon -- and by people, no less. Spider silk is one of nature's engineering...

Looking for a new drink? This concoction was adopted only months ago as Thailand's signature drink. It combines coconut, ginger and lemon grass flavors -- with a spicy chili pepper...

Africans are more diverse genetically than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined, according to a sweeping study that carried researchers to remote valleys and mountaintops to sample...

Nosratollah Amini, 94, an Iranian lawyer and politician who became the personal attorney of Mohammad Mossadegh, the nationalist prime minister deposed in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953, died April 20...

Frankie Manning, 94, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s...

A plane used as a backup for Air Force One and its fighter jet escort swooped low in the sky over New York on Monday morning as part of a...