MIAMI - Schools in southern Florida are opening their doors to children arriving from quake-stricken Haiti and setting up special programs to help them adapt, authorities here said Friday. Miami...

PARIS- Babies born to child brides in India run a higher risk of malnourishment compared to those born to older mothers, says a paper appearing on Friday. Anita Raj, a professor at Boston...

VIENNA- A leading Austrian university announced Monday it had withdrawn a honorary diploma awarded to an engineer who had questioned the gassing of Jews in Nazi death camps. The Vienna University...

ROME, Gina Doggett - The role of the Roman Catholic Church during the Holocaust hung over a landmark visit Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI to Rome's main synagogue. "Unfortunately many remained...

WASHINGTON - Suicides in the US Army rose to a new record in 2009, with 160 soldiers taking their lives, the military said Friday, calling it a "painful year." Army leaders had warned that the...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - New York is, like, totally awesome -- especially when you're an abandoned Californian Chihuahua. Fifteen of these goggle-eyed living toys, best known for inhabiting the...

MUMBAI, Phil Hazlewood- Mohan was 13 when he ran away from his village because he didn't want to sit an exam. He ended up in Mumbai, fearing beatings or worse every time he slept on the streets, in...

WICHITA, Joe Stumpe - The man who gunned down one of America's best-known abortion doctors goes on trial here Monday in a case that once again focuses attention on the legal but controversial medical...

WASHINGTON - Around one in eight youths in prison in the United States, some as young as 12, have been sexually abused by another inmate or jail staff, a first-ever survey by the Department of...