DETROIT | Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest...

CHARITY BONNER Staff Writer ELGIN -- Some of them were not born when the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened, but dozens of children will gather Saturday at a soccer field at Elgin Bible...

A stormy day in Blackpool. Photograph: Christopher Thomond Life and history are full of successful people who turn out to have been riven by self-doubt. So we shouldn't be too surprised by the...

(UPI) - A U.S. foot physician warns ankle injuries increase as young athletes begin playing fall sports such as football, soccer and basketball. Kansas City, Kan., foot and ankle surgeon Dr. James...

Schools should cut down on competitive sport because it is putting children off exercise and undermining the government's drive to tackle obesity, researchers warned today.Last month, the prime...

The Liberal Democrats have called for a fundamental shift in thinking on crime, saying minor criminals should be kept out of jail, with the money saved put into police funding.Launching his party's...

A typical trolley of food has risen in price by 8.3 per cent since the beginning of the year, according to research out today. The price of meat and fish was up 22.9 per cent since...

The nuclear family image of the typical Aussie dad raising 2.3 kids with one life partner is more elusive than ever as households continue to change, new figures suggest. There will be “probably...

"I Served the King of England": For his sixth adaptation of the works of renowned Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal, veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel has concocted a luxurious, sexy and delightfully...

Gordon Brown today faced a backlash from the Labour movement after signalling that the government will not be making cash payments to low-income families to help them with the cost of rising fuel...

The gap between private and public sector workers' pensions is growing as household saving rates continue to decline, according to a report published yesterday.Financial adviser Hargreaves Lansdown...

report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), there are fewer women MPs, cabinet members, national newspaper editors, senior police officers and judges, NHS executives, trade union...

TRUE BLOOD(2008) What if vampires lived among us, out in the open? That's the underpinning to HBO's newest original series, from Six Feet Under's Alan Ball — who apparently can't get enough of...

PASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a...

— comes out with a brat-lit set in the murky interiors of Bihar, a onehorse (but many bandicoots-infested) town with a solitary restaurant where a chicken cutlet costs Rs 2.50, a cup of espresso...

London, Sept 05: A father mistakenly declared dead after going missing eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him on television, police said on Thursday. The...

Toronto, Sept 05: A new Canadian study shows that thinking too much can lead to overeating and thus obesity. In their study at Universite Laval in Quebec City, Canadian researchers found that the...

Sony is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to a wiring flaw that could cause overheating. Sony Corp said the recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between...

LAKELAND | A late-night meeting over supper Wednesday has produced a truce - if not complete understanding - between two preachers, one of whom landed in jail over his ministry to the...

PLANTATION - For 26 years, the city has paid the costs of maintaining Roy Salmon Field, where students play football and soccer. Now, Councilman Rico Petrocelli says it's time for the city to figure...

Music This afternoon, Heart emailed out a statement regarding vice-presidential candidate Sarah "Barracuda" Palin's use of their similarly monikered song at the Republican National...

ST. PAUL, MINN. | After months of shadowboxing, the campaign for president got real and it got personal this week as the rhetoric of attack politics overwhelmed any discussion of policy at the...

t with this Saturday's newspaper as the company looks to boost advertising opportunities amid an overall decline in the industry. The inaugural cover features a model wearing a dress made with the...

WASHINGTON | About 85 percent of the marketing materials that private insurers use for their prescription drug plans fail to meet all of Medicare's guidelines for those products, federal auditors...

From ''Pee-Wee'' to ''Brazil,'' ''Scarface'' to ''Showgirls'' -- the movies from the past 25 years that may not be loved by all, but are all held dear by a legion of deeply devoted...

WASHINGTON | Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had...

WASHINGTON | The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the...

WILMINGTON, N.C. | Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring...

(09-04) 19:19 PDT BERKELEY -- A state appeals court today refused to block UC Berkeley's plans to build a sports training center next to Memorial Stadium, denying a request from oak tree advocates...

HAMBURG, Germany—"Can you taste the fine nuances?" asks Atiq Ressuli, one of the owners of "Buddha's Kitchen," a restaurant at the main train station. He watches as we...

ATHENS—Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket on Thursday and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices. About 20 unarmed people, mostly...

After centuries of giving humanity little more than nicotine and death, the tobacco plant may be the wellspring of a revolution in gene therapy. Scientists are using a modified tobacco virus to...

A cancer sufferer whose primary care trust refused to pay for a drug which could extend his life by up to three years has launched an "end of the road" legal challenge to the decision. If Colin...

LAKELAND | Residents in the Lake Morton Historic District and a city planning board on Thursday said no way to a halfway house in the...

BAGHDAD | A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat deaths in the capital in a...

Brian Billick and longtime sports radio personality Nestor Aparicio are joining forces to create what the Super Bowl-winning coach dubs “an online sports community.” The...

Approval came following public hearings on the adoption of the various parts of next year's budget and the tax rates. No one from the public spoke for or against any of the proposals.A final public...

Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander LLC . Asti joins the firm Sept. 8 and will spearhead a new sports and economic development practice dubbed...

BAGHDAD | The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses committed there by U.S....

Can what works for the Big Ten — a television network solely devoted to sports in the conference — work for an individual school like...

Britain did fantastically well in the 2000 and 2004 Paralympics. Now, on the eve of this year's games, a fresh squad of athletes is hoping to win yet another top-five place. Emine Saner asks some of...

WASHINGTON | People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to...

--> As rivals, they form a perfect tennis tableau: There’s the great Roger Federer, for 4-1/2 years touted as, inevitably, the greatest ever, he of the elegant V-neck...

One of Britain’s top rare wine merchants and nuclear scientists have jointly unveiled a 21stcentury tool for unmasking counterfeit vintage wines. The technique consists of zapping bottles with ion...

COLUMBIA, S.C. | The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation - broadcast...

"If the Government of Dubai decides to bid for the Olympics, we would fully support that bid in any way we can, including being a host venue for some of the events and a training base for athletes,"...

Mark Ronson is a fan of short suit jackets which finish just above the wearer's derri�re. They are not just a smart way to save material; they are also the smart way to be smart this...

Thu, Sep 4, 2008 (3:27 p.m.) "All In," a new sports show produced by Greenspun Interactive and the staff of the Las Vegas Sun, will debut at 5:30 p.m. today on KTUD (Channel 14). The 30-minute...

Siberia's last woolly mammoths descended from North American, not Eurasian, stock, according to new research. Scientists studying DNA from the remains of 160 of the animals found the ancient...

The Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles has been accused of promoting excessive drinking among his audience by a government-funded academic study. Radio stations including Radio 1 and Kerrang! reacted...