Health

Entrance to the clinic at the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island in Queens, New York. (Photo: Librado Romero / The New York Times) Patricia Wright …

Syria, near the border with Turkey. (Photo: [ john ]) The Syrian military in the past month planted a band of anti-personnel mines along stretches of the …

Working mothers tend to be happier and healthier than mothers who stay at home caring for young children, according to recent research. But many of those who work are …

(Photo: United States Marine Corps) Panjway, Afghanistan - A United States service member walked out of a military base in a rural district of southern Afghanistan on …

TransCanada's decision last week to build the southern half of the rejected Keystone XL has raised a tricky question about who will regulate the project review. The …

The new HBO movie Game Change, which revisits the 2008 presidential campaign, includes a scene in which Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin watches Tina Fey impersonate her on …

After a stretch of economic expansion so weak that Main Street struggled to detect any improvement, three consecutive months of solid employment growth have begun to lift the mood …

President Obama has a historic opportunity to help reform the World Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey Sachs to be the World Bank's next president. Sachs has said that …

(Photo: DHANU / Flickr) Public-sector banking is a concept that is relatively unknown in the United States. Only one state - North Dakota - owns its own …

When among friends, you're far more likely to air your dirty secrets. A corporate conference held in Houston, Texas, on October 31 to November 1, 2011, titled "Giving Communications …