With the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They’re laughing.

The United States government began a major overhaul of its effort to produce an Aids vaccine on Tuesday, stressing a return to basic scientific research after the failure of a…

South Korean KJ Choi captured his second title in the last five weeks with a three-stroke victory at the Tiger Woods invitational tournament on a sweltering Sunday at the…

Reading difficulties can be traced to different parts of the brain in Chinese and Western children, a team of American scientists say. In China, dyslexia appears to have a…

Fear is settling into this leafy, affluent suburb on the northern edge of the US capital, where lurks an eagle-eyed sniper who has killed six and wounded two in the past week and…