Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests. ... The researchers checked medical records to see who had developed Alzheimer's or another form of dementia by an average of 36 years...
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Police have revealed more information on Sunday night's CTA shooting that left an innocent 17-year-old dead. Kiyanna Salter was sitting with her cousin, Jasmine Wilcox, on the No. 71 bus Sunday, talking to a man on the bus the...
AMY WINEHOUSE’s mother has dismissed comments the star is a bad influence on her young goddaughter - insisting the troubled singer wants to protect the 12-year-old. The Back to Black hitmaker tried to boost her goddaughter...
More than a quarter million Afghans have returned home so far this year from Pakistan and Iran with the help of the UN refugee agency-UNHCR. In Geneva, UNHCR Spokesman Ron Redmond says the agency's assisted voluntary...
Everyone has felt the earthquake on Wall Street. But it has not shaken the resolve of the United Nations. That's what Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters at UN Headquarters Tuesday. He says Banks may be failing, but...