The crews of the Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter Midgett and a Navy maritime patrol plane teamed up to catch a drug-running submarine carrying 7 tons of cocaine worth about $196 million, Coast Guard officials said Friday.

A look at why present and future generations should not expect a windfall through a will. Points to ponder....

Joan Hunter Dunn has died at 92 and the obituarists are despairing. What can be said of the woman who inspired the most famous middle-brow love poem of the 20th century, John Betjeman's A Subaltern's Love Song? What else did she do? How to fill the page?

Riches is one of two dozen Sept. 11 family members, survivors and rescue workers joining the pope for a brief service at the base of the destroyed twin towers. They were randomly chosen from more than 1,100 people who wanted to be there.

Jeroo has confronted violence against women through her powerful and painful paintings. She has head on tackled issues on dowry related violence and death, forced marriages, rapes, suicides and honour based violence.

South African women following international cosmetic genital surgery trends in search of "designer vaginas" have sparked off debate among sexual health professionals and doctors about the ethics of reinventing themselves.

BARBARA STREIFF Primal geometry - ten symbols found in nature - has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Empowered by the symbolic energy in primal geometry, Barbara Streiff's work reflects all cultures and a

Sexual violence, especially in the home, is on the increase in Afghanistan - according to a UN report. Lack of pre-natal and post-partum care also cited.

(PlusNews Global) - Money and men are in no short supply in the petroleum-rich Angolan enclave of Cabinda. Workers from the petroleum industry, truck drivers, merchants and some 60,000 soldiers and police are based in the area; and sex workers from the co

I've never heard of Rep. George Miller before. He's freaking awesome & has earned my respect!! He's right the US is supporting the pro-Iranian ISCI against the nationalist Mehdi Army and he's damn right to be pissed. National reconciliation cannot be