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Scientists studying HIV and Ebola have noticed another virus hitching along for the ride in some blood samples. Now they're trying to figure out whether the lurker helps the body fend off disease.

Lucy the Elephant is the oldest roadside attraction in America. Saved from the wrecking ball, she's a survivor among the increasingly endangered species of American roadside oddities.

Landslides in Sri Lanka on Tuesday night crushed three villages and left more than 200 families missing. Fresh rains have impaired rescue operations.

Fatalism and hope, realism and romance from the acidic, adrenalized Portland punk trio.

A scrap of a play written in part by Shakespeare answers contemporaries who were angry that England was admitting religious refugees.

Jennifer Mason-Black's new novel has echoes of The Odyssey. It follows a young musician who makes a deal with a devil at the crossroads: her voice, in exchange for a way to find her missing sister.

Both Belgian and French police are involved in the operation, which apparently began with a visit to an apartment that the authorities thought to be vacant.

After a career as a Marine pilot, Glenn was chosen as an astronaut. He was the third American in space, went on to have a successful career in politics and then returned to space on shuttle Discovery.

A federal judge in Washington will allow John Hinckley to leave a mental institution and to live full-time with his mother. Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981.

Sometimes seemingly nonsensical moves — like most of what happens behind the scenes on Capitol Hill — are deftly calculated plays for political survival.