The spice turmeric, which is usually found in Indian foods like curry, has been found to kill some cancer cells.

College may be getting more expensive, but nearly four out of every 10 adults in the USA between 18 and 24 were enrolled in college last year, an all-time high.

Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man from the [...]

Sleep experts say habitually sleeping more than 10 hours can be indicative of other medical problems.

The chief minister of India’s Gujarat state Narendra Modi has tested positive for swine flu, a day after his return from a trip to Russia, officials say.

Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, critiques creationist [...]

Amnesty International has launched a scathing attack on Israel, accusing it of rationing Palestinians to a “trickle of water”.

According to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, the CIA misled Congress at least five times since 2001.

Democrats in the US House of Representatives unveiled a broad healthcare overhaul that would transform the insurance [...]

New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers - and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars.

Iran will accept a UN deal on its nuclear program as longs as “very important changes” are made.

A UN human rights investigator warned the United States that its use of unmanned warplanes to [...]

The Obama administration is expected Tuesday to name 100 utility projects that will share $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funding to speed deployment of advanced technology designed to cut energy use.

Verizon Communications Inc. posted a 30% decline in its third-quarter profit as rival AT&T Inc. and Apple Inc.’s iPhone took a bite out of its [...]

Countering Republican critics’ claims that healthcare reform is too costly, a top White House adviser said reforming the nation’s health insurance market will significantly reduce the nation’s budget deficit.

Israeli police crossed Jerusalem’s red line and fired stun grenades against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones outside the Holy Land’s most volatile shrine, where past violence [...]

There is a massive shortage of the H1N1 vaccination, the federal government had expected that 120 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine would be readily available by October end but the CDC will only have 27.7 million doses of the vaccine by the month’s end.

After a year of grappling with fewer shifts and falling wages, [...]