There's been plenty of negative news coverage about youth lately. Parsons student plunges to death after night of binge drinking. Paris Hilton arrested for cocaine. The cast of Jersey Shore (fill in the blank).

Grandma might be asking what's wrong with this new generation of self-destructive youngsters. But as it...

Note to new moms: If you breastfeed now, you'll be more likely to slip back into those skinny jeans for years to come.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered that even one month of breastfeeding can ward off weight gain well into the future --...

Earlier this month Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ordered scientists to exhume the 180-year-old remains of his hero, independence leader Simón Bolívar. But over the weekend Chávez showed his biggest bone to pick is still with America.

On Saturday, Chávez announced on State Television that the United States is accelerating a...

When a Milan judge stated yesterday that Italy's secret-service agency was perhaps complicit in the 2003 abduction and rendition of an Egyptian cleric, it confirmed the long-held suspicions of many Italians. Judge Oscar Magi's decision last November to dismiss the kidnapping cases against two of the country's top intelligence officers...

Medical and legal experts are now questioning whether military doctors violated professional ethics while monitoring harsh interrogation techniques described in the C.I.A. inspector general's report released yesterday by the Obama administration.

The report, written in 2004 by Inspector General John L. Helgerson, outlines brutal interrogation techniques, such as choking, shackling...

Ninety-one-year-old Aline Johnson has been told by doctors she is dying of congestive heart failure. She rarely leaves the bed of her house in Queens, N.Y., and her voice creaks like a porch door as she speaks, flirting with the uppermost registers. Since being admitted into hospice care a year...

Down the street from Sol Supermarket, across from Sandro's Rubber Company and J&H Auto Body, Mark Florentino sips coffee with five friends at New Colony Diner, in Bridgeport, Conn. The men, all over 70, are discussing the Southwestern Connecticut Congressional race between Republican incumbent Christopher Shays, who has served the...

Dave Nona is an Iraqi-American living the immigrant dream. After arriving from Baghdad in 1968, Nona, now 60, owns a house and two cars, sends his three kids to private school and runs a construction-development business with two of his six brothers in West Bloomfield, Mich. Like most Republicans, he...