TULKAREM, West Bank - Six years ago, Shifa al-Qudsi was plotting to strap on explosives under a maternity dress and blow herself up among Israelis. Now she says she wants to meet them.

Lying in a hammock or perfecting the old golf game for 20 years might seem the ideal retirement to baby boomers at 3 p.m. on ...

Chinese Premier Calls for Price Controls. - BEIJING (AP) -- China's premier on Wednesday called for powerful measures to rein in inflation that is battering ordinary Chinese, saying the government will use price controls and curb soaring investment to hold prices to a 4.8 percent annual rise.

Quoted: In a test of Harvard's famed open-mindedness, the university has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who say it offends their sense of modesty to exercise in front of the opposite sex.

WASHINGTON - After James Freeman was vetted and approved for membership in what police describe as a highly sophisticated child porn network, he expressed his appreciation by posting two folders online: one labeled "mild," the other "wild."