Chaz Bono announced he was having a sex change to his mother Cher, and she might not have understood it at the time - but she’s clearly trying to get it now. In an interview with Vanity Fair's magazine for the month of December 2010, the musical icon said that she wouldn’t have been able to handle the situation as well as ...

GENEVA – Roman Catholic believers and leaders in parts of the world most stricken by AIDS drew hope from Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments on condoms, even if the Vatican took pains to explain that nothing has changed about its policy on contraception.

WASHINGTON – Pilots are getting a break from enduring the stepped-up and intrusive screening of airline passengers that's causing a public outcry.

LOS ANGELES – A judge on Friday dismissed a felony burglary charge against a woman accused of breaking into Lindsay Lohan's home, saying there was insufficient evidence.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Their height made Wayne and Laurie Hallquist seem like an ideal match when they met seven years ago, and on Thursday they were matched with something else -- the title of world's tallest living married couple.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Two Germans fed up with eating Bratwurst sausages not fried to perfection have come up with a "Wursttoaster," or sausage toaster, to ensure caterers no longer have an excuse to serve anything less than the best.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Two undertakers in the northwestern German city of Cologne are trying to tap into the gay market by selling coffins adorned with images of male nudes.

The California Supreme Court this week unanimously upheld a state law that grants in-state tuition regardless of immigration status. Could their decision send a message to anti-illegal-immigration groups who have brought challenges to similar state laws around the country?

WASHINGTON – Is marriage becoming obsolete?

Can't wait to see your parents and siblings for the holidays? Before you go, remember your manners. Although you may not intentionally mean to, you can ruin your get together and turn everyone's celebration sour with a few wrong moves.

Minding Your Money Manners

The way advice is given can inadvertently increase the receiver’s resistance to hearing it or acting on it,” writes behavior specialist Jeffery Pfeffer on BNET.

Va inmates no longer isolated over haircut refusal

ATLANTA – A federal appeals court considered Wednesday whether a paranoid schizophrenic should be forcibly medicated so that he can stand trial on bank robbery charges in a case that could help shape just how far the government can go to make sure the mentally ill are competent to stand trial.

JACKSON, Miss. – A Mississippi man who drifted through several states after he was declared dead in 1994 will be charged with murder in the slaying of a 12-year-old Las Vegas girl whose body was found by hunters in remote Louisiana woods, authorities said Wednesday.

UC students clash with police before fee hike vote

MADISON, Wis. – A rural Wisconsin man blasted his television set with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine Monday night, saying he was fed up with politics and Palin wasn't a very good dancer, according to court documents.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A futuristic Turkish taxi cab with a see-through roof for gazing at the skyline is among three finalists in New York City's search for the "Taxi of Tomorrow

  Woman allegedly tries to cut tattooed name off man