SAN FRANCISCO - The family of a woman who died while taking part in a radio station water-drinking contest to win a Nintendo Wii was awarded more than 16.5 million dollars by a jury in California...
CHICAGO - A Texas police chief apologized Friday after at least 39 people received traffic tickets because they couldn't speak English.
"I was surprised and stunned that that would happen in the...
VANCOUVER - Canada will not appeal a court ruling tossing out criminal charges against two men in polygamous religious sects, authorities in British Columbia said Thursday.
Provincial Attorney...
SANTIAGO- Sexual dysfunction affects more than half of menopausal Hispanic women over 40, an 11-nation study said Wednesday.
The Latin American Network of Climacteric Research found that 56...
DUBRAVE, Pierre Glachant- Kosovo may have won recognition in its David vs. Goliath battle for independence from Serbia, but its own Ashkali minority live forgotten in squalor and misery in a daily...
RIO DE JANEIRO- Brazil deployed an extra 4,500 police Sunday as deadly clashes with drug traffickers brought down a police helicopter and left 17 people dead over the weekend in 2016 Olympics host...
NOTTINGHAM- Three police officers were taken to hospital Saturday during a protest by environmental campaigners at one of Britain's biggest coal-fired power stations, police said.
The officers,...
WASHINGTON - Women now make up nearly half of the US workforce, compared to the third they constituted 40 years ago, and the vast majority of Americans think this is a good thing, according to a Time...
NEW DELHI, Rupam Jain Nair - In a Delhi classroom, 40 sheepish girls and boys stare silently at a sketch of a couple making love.
The sex education lesson for 15-year-olds is not part of India's...
STOCKHOLM - A group of Swedish women filed a class-action lawsuit against a university Wednesday because it gave under-represented male students admissions priority, their lawyer said.
"These...