The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.

A team of doctors at St

Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadowed a US aircraft carrier strike group as it transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

The passage ended a Gulf mission that displayed Western naval power amid

Two months after the death of Kim Jong Il, North Koreans commemorated what would have been his 70th birthday on Thursday with the flowers that bear his name, along with songs and art praising him as a

“I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...” So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning.

Nine tourist couples slathered on ample amounts of sunblock and said ‘I do’ in the nude on a sun-baked Jamaican beach.

Getting married in the buff on Valentine's Day meant living out a fantasy for Mi

The U.S. and its allies are closely monitoring Syria's stockpiles of chemical arms and portable anti-aircraft missiles, a State Department official says, amid concerns that the country's unconventiona

Italy's national statistics agency confirmed on Wednesday that the eurozone's third-largest economy had slid into recession thanks to a drop in industrial activity and a stagnant service sector.

The

A fire swept through a prison in Honduras, killing at least 272 inmates, many of them burning to death in their cells, authorities said Wednesday.

Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the pros

The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius.

All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los

What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup?
Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine’s Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An axe that smashed through household furniture?