The IOC and corporations defended awarding the Olympics to /topics/China" class="cnnInlineTopic">China because, they said, the Games would serve to open China to the world. Protests are at the heart ...

I am trying to eliminate trans fats out of my diet completely, but it is pretty tough with all the products that contain partially hydrogenated oils. If partially hydrogenated oils are not in the ...

Representatives of a dozen Jewish, Arab and community groups came together Wednesday to speak out against what they see as a surging "racist backlash" against Muslims and Arabs in the wake of the ...

Fourteen city workers and one retired city worker in the western Ohio town of Piqua claimed a $207 million 12-state lottery prize Wednesday. The workers posed for pictures behind an oversized replica ...

The second seed defeats Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in five-set semifinal The Swiss faces Robin Soderling as he aims to win tournament for first time (CNN)-- Second seed Roger Federer stayed on ...

Fireworks, athletes and pageantry on a scale never before seen in the Olympics opened the Summer Games in Beijing on Friday as the Asian nation kicked off the biggest and most scrutinized Games in ...

The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that it believes 135,000 new Afghan refugees have entered Pakistan since September 11. At least 75,000 are thought to have entered the North West Frontier province ...

It seems more and more young people are dying of heart attacks/disease. When I was growing up (1960-70) a heart attack was an older person's disease. Today I'm hearing of people in their 30s and 40s ...

President Bush on Monday defended his administration's decision to withhold documents from Congress about its closed-door energy task force meetings. And, Bush said, the collapse of Enron Corp. is a ...

Drive up to the parking lot, exchange your car keys for a ticket and leave the stress of piloting your six-feet-wide automobile into a space that's six-feet-and-four-inches wide to somebody else. That ...

Two U.S. journalists who had been detained by North Korea were traveling back to the United States with former President Clinton hours after being pardoned, a Clinton spokesman said. "They are en ...

U.S. diplomats on the North Korea beat must have the same goal as Goldilocks -- not too hot and not too cold. Too much heat from Washington would just heighten the propaganda payoff for Kim Jong Il, ...