His legs look so weak he can barely stand. His coat is mangy with neglect and virtually every bone is visible under what is left of his emaciated body. This is Nativity, a stray dog taken from the streets of Nicaragua, who was tethered to a piece of...

It was not long after a Methodist church put down roots here that the troubles began. First came visits from agents of the FSB, the successor to the KGB, who evidently saw a threat in a few dozen searching souls who liked to huddle in cramped...

Sudan has accused the United Nations of exaggerating the death toll from five years of conflict in the country’s western Darfur region. Mohamed Ali al-Mardi, Sudan’s former justice minister, told Al Jazeera that the UN is manipulating...

Roughly 500 samples were taken from the children at the San Angelo Coliseum beginning Monday as child welfare officials try to sort out the complicated family relationships at the ranch compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day...

Stephen Hawking called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars in a lecture in honour of NASA’s 50th anniversary. He argued that the world should devote about 10 times as much as NASA’s current budget – or...

A thief was caught on surveillance video breaking into a Florida restaurant to steal an empty cash register, police said.

So Pope Benedict XVI moved on up the coast to New York and, as you would imagine, the newspaper of record in those parts is packed with coverage today. We could do an entire day or two on this here blog simply trying to scan all of that. But did I miss...

The impact of rising food prices on world markets is already putting Latin America against the ropes: as regional giant Brazil insists its focus on biofuels has nothing to do with the price increases, Mexico is bracing itself for a hard time, and others...

Though I know that yoga is so beneficial for flexibility as well as mind-body strength, I have yet to try it. But reading Prevention’s article about how yoga can lead to a better sex life... well, who wouldn’t be tempted to give it a try?

The sudden and dramatic disappearance of a large lake which had formed on the surface of a melting ice sheet in Greenland has been documented for the first time by scientists who estimated that its outflow was greater than that of Niagara Falls.