The men in this poor farming community were seething. A 13-year-old girl was brought to a doctor's office to have her clitoris removed, a surgery considered necessary here to preserve chastity and honor. The girl died, but that was not the source...

Despite the revelations of Galileo - that our planet revolves around the sun, and not vice versa - human beings believe everything revolves around them. Despite the harsh lessons of Darwin - that we're but a twig on the tree of life - we see ourselves as

MANY YEARS AGO I WAS publicly accused of serious sexual misconduct and lived in a crippling state of fear and shame for two tortuous weeks. I was about nine years old at the time and was accused by a girl in my class of having done something very bad...

Strewth. Crikey. Bloody hell. An Australian woman has reportedly sparked a security scare aboard a US flight after her use of a common Australian phrase was apparently misinterpreted as an act of aggression.

Is that an ATM in the church lobby? Credit and debit card swipe machines in churches may startle some of the pious, but such kiosks, already present in some houses of worship, might become even more commonplace now that a new IRS regulation is in effect.

A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. Mules are too tough to bother being sweet. They do a hard job which no other animal or human invention can do as well.

An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter Thursday -- their 17th child and seventh girl -- and the pair say they're still not ready to give it a rest. Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said

The hybrid train prototype will hum its way between scenic Yamanashi and Nagano Prefectures where the innovative engine can be tested on all the hills.

A Sunrise, Fla. woman is accused of trying to run a 'slip and fall' scam at a grocery store. Images captured by a surveillance camera inside the store show the woman lose her footing in one of the aisles and take a nasty fall.

The abstinence campaign that hopes to corrupt the morals of our once proud nation - a group called the Silver Ring Thing - has so far received $700,000 from George Bush, as part of his campaign to replace sex education with Victorian values.