An eight-year-old girl strapped with explosives has blown up and killed an Iraqi army captain.

The bomb was detonated by remote control, injuring four soldiers in addition to the one who died, an Iraqi Army spokesman said.

Local authorities imposed...

Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush’s claim that he had given up golf in honor of the Iraq...

Two prominent surrogates of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stumped for the candidates Wednesday, a sign of how important this U.S. island territory’s primary next month has become.

Michelle Obama toured the capital of San Juan for her...

The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests.

From a string of GPS units embedded along the California faults to motion-sensor rigs deployed across Japan, researchers have already set their sights on the next generation of earthquake prevention. Could authorities in rural China have implemented new...

Some commentators made unkind observations about the 19-year-old’s body after she was pictured wearing a bikini on a Caribbean holiday last month.

Her mother Sarah Ferguson, who has battled with her own weight, reacted to the criticism yesterday as...

Now that the outcome of the battle for the Democratic nomination has been settled beyond a reasonable doubt, it’s worth looking systematically at the major factors that gave victory to Obama.

This slideshow complements our interview with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, who has experienced “The Great Firewall of China” firsthand.What follows is a list of the differences between the Internet, as seen in the...

Blogger Albert Alberts loves a slim wallet, and after reading over some of our wallet-slimming tips, he realized he had a powerful wallet-slimming tool in his pocket all the time: his iPhone.

Sleepless during nights of exile in Chad, Daoud Hari stared at cracks in his room’s mud walls. The lines formed random shapes that reminded him of drawings from thousands of years ago — of horned beasts, of women, men and children. He had seen them in...