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Why no major business can ignore the world's fastest-growing economy.

Why gay couples have more equality and less tension at home--but still split up more often than straight pairs

While a confrontation carries domestic political risks for both sides, their differences over Jerusalem could sabotage peace efforts

Low-end factories are no longer the future, and the cost of doing business is rising.

He has been on the list for more than 10 years, originally wanted for allegedly orchestrating the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Though the official FBI bin Laden poster lists his...

The back-and-forth between Obama and Netanyahu casts the roadblocks to peace in even starker light. Perhaps it is time for drastic action

Worried about rising obesity levels, health advocates in Europe are pushingfor new 'traffic light' labels on food products -- green is healthy andred ... not so much

The Flaming Lips don't play shows they put on spectacles. The alt-rockers embrace eccentricity in their live performances: they've rolled around in giant spheres, constructed a giant UFO, even...

The rise in childhood obesity is a single problem with a whole lot of causes. Like any epidemic, it hits some groups hard and leaves others mostly alone. Which group your family belongs to depends on income, ethnicity, geography and more

St. Patrick is credited with taking Christianity to Ireland around A.D. 432. To sell his message, Irish legend says he chose the shamrock as a symbol of the Christian church. Its three leaves were...

The former dictator's architectural excesses have been transformed into operations centers for the U.S. military.Photographs by Richard Mosse / Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts

While Maliki and Allawi are neck and neck, neither will have enough votes to govern - or even, perhaps, to claim the right to form a coalition

The fate of a member of one of the rarest species on earth riveted the most powerful as well as the humblest in the war-torn nation

The contretemps between the U.S. and Israel is making many in Washington uncomfortable -- and reflects a deadlock on Middle East peace that the U.S. military says is jeopardizing American security

Despite obstacles at the U.N. Security Council, unilateral measures against Iran's energy sector are having an impact. But it may not be enough to change Tehran's behavior