By Mary C. Schulken
| 6:40AM
She was born in a year when people died like poisoned rats.
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Boston Globe
| 6:47PM
Holding one's breath while waiting for presidential candidates to address the gap between rich and poor is a sure way to asphyxiate.
By Mike Stobbe | Associated Press
| 7:48PM
An expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer makes sense for young girls when it comes to cost-effectiveness, but not for women in their 20s, contends a new report.
By Arthur Max | Associated Press
| 7:48PM
Negotiators meet here this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers
| 8:27PM
A key pillar of the U.S. strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces.
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra | Associated Press
| 8:27PM
Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials said Wednesday.