If you're in the hunt for yet another site where you can debate religious perspectives, there's a new entry on line, a potential rival to Beliefnet.com but with a more academic slant. Patheos launched this...

A teenage Iraqi girl who claimed her husband's female relatives strapped explosives on her has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for attempting to blow herself up at a checkpoint in northeaster...

D.C. school officials are planning to offer tests for sexually transmitted diseases to all high school students in the coming school year, expanding a pilot program that uncovered a significant number of infect...

The U.S. Defense Department is reviewing the use of Facebook and other social networking sites on its computers with an eye toward setting rules on how to protect against possible security risks. The Marine Cor...

His parents hoped their teenage son would be home in a month, cured of his addiction to the Internet. They never thought that within 10 hours of taking him to an addiction clinic they would receive a telephone ...

"What the whole church must face--local congregations and parachurch ministries alike--is the enormity of the need. The facts speak for themselves: Only 15 to 20 percent of American teenagers are significa...

A quarter of children left primary school this May unable to read and write properly or do basic arithmetic, the government revealed today. More than a quarter of 11-year-olds in England failed to achieve the s...

Alarmed by the rampant spread of sexually transmitted germs among Boston teenagers, city disease trackers will unveil a safer-sex campaign today that aims to talk to adolescents via their preferred modes of com...

Israeli police launched a citywide manhunt through Tel Aviv for the masked, black-clad gunman who opened fire with a pistol at a gay youth club on Saturday night, Aug. 1, killing two and wounding 15 more. Whil...

Dr. Helen Egger, a Duke University psychiatrist who also has studied childhood depression, said it is common among people in her field to first see depressed kids in their teens. Their parents will say sym...