Squirts probably don't need any more reasons to envy their longer-limbed neighbors. Unfortunately, a new study just added to the indignity of short people. According to a paper from the National Bureau of Econo...

Roman pub manager Leonardo Leuci has noticed an increasingly popular request from young people who step up to the bar to order a drink: "Make me something strong." Leuci spent a decade working at watering holes...

More Americans volunteered last year despite the worsening economy, according to a report released Tuesday by the Corporation for National and Community Service.Almost a million more people donated their t...

Barack Obama's White House, home of the famously BlackBerrying president and first lady, has blocked online access to Twitter.Banning Twitter ...

Murad Ali, one of five schoolboy suicide bombers rescued from a Taleban training camp, looks haggard beyond his 13 years. He was thrilled at first when he was given a gun, but Murad told The Times last week ...

For much of his education, Xue Longlong was silently accompanied from grade to grade, school to school, by a sealed Manila envelope stamped top secret. Stuffed inside were grades, test results, evaluations by...

During the Beacon Hill Judiciary Committee hearing July 14 on the transgender rights bill, a group of representatives of the gym and health club industry testified that such a bill would hurt their businesse...

In an effort to bring attention to the growing epidemic of gang violence, hip-hop artist Bobby Bishop has released a music video titled "Please" from the new Chosen/Executive/Universal Music CD, Everyday Man.&n...

For nearly a year, donations had been declining at a church in Colorado Springs. Brian Kluth, pastor and author, mailed out copies of his 40-Day Journey to a More Generous Life Bible devotional to every family ...

One of the people who was instrumental in pushing for laws to increase the legal drinking age to 21 now calls his actions "the single most regrettable decision" of his career. Dr. Morris Chafetz, a psychiatr...