The leading Democratic presidential candidates faced pointed questions on gay marriage and the basis for sexual orientation in TV forum

According to a new study, women with breast implants were three times more likely to commit suicide or to die from drug or alcohol-related causes than other women

Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds said an interim epidemiology report on the outbreak "indicates that infection may be contained to the Surrey area"

A wild storm and heavy rains lashed Pakistan's largest city, collapsing houses, flooding streets and leaving at least 22 people dead

The Philippine officials say that clashes between troops and suspected al-Qaida-linked militants have killed at least 57 people and wounded 42 others on volatile southern Jolo island this week

There's no statute of limitations on sequels, but "Rush Hour 3" will be pushing the envelope this week as it launches in North America six years after "Rush Hour 2"

Sixty-one stars from the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- including those of Charlton Heston, Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra -- have been removed and stored while a $500-million hotel-shopping-housing project is built on Vine Street near Hollywood Boulevard

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has agreed to mediated talks, aimed at preventing what could be the worst rail strike in 15 years

British Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds said cows in a second area of the southern England county of Surrey had shown "mild clinical signs of infections," announcing that a new 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) exclusion zone had been set up around a farm previously unlinked to the outbreak

Rescue crews drilled through to a pocket in the coal mine where six miners have been trapped, but heard no sound through a microphone that was lowered into the collapsed mine

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is under growing U.S. pressure to crack down on militants along the border with Afghanistan

At the first-ever televised presidential forum devoted to gay rights issues, Democratic candidates focused largely on restating pro-gay stances they have taken throughout the campaign

On Wednesday, once Endeavour was safely past the 73-second mark of the flight, the moment when Challenger exploded, Mission Control exclaimed that Morgan - McAuliffe's backup for Challenger - was "racing toward space on the wings of a legacy"

In Ukraine's Black Sea port was discovered a World War II mine as a U.S. Navy ship called for a visit

Drill rigs perched on a steep mountain chewed through sandstone in the U.S. state of Utah to within a few hundred feet early Thursday of six coal miners caught in a collapse 1,500 feet (457 meters) underground, one of the mine's co-owners said