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A new study shows men make up 16 percent of caretakers, and a growing percentage are choosing it not because of a poor economy but because they want to stay home.

A new project places little kayaks filled with aquatic plants under latrines in floating homes on Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake. So how do the toilets clean the wastewater?

Urban revitalization often brings to mind preservation and rehabilitation—people like the idea of saving old buildings. But the reality is, in…

Charter schools, special education, and new preschool funding are among changes for New Orleans schools.

Hunger has become one of the biggest issues in British society. A parliamentary report says one problem is welfare benefits, which have been cut under the conservative government.

Although people with mental illness sometimes distort the message of movements, far more are victims of violence rather than perpetrators, says one psychiatrist.

Anna Stoehr became an Internet celebrity at age 113, when she owned up to fibbing to join Facebook. Stoehr was born before the Wright brothers took their historic first flight.

From David Letterman announcing his retirement to black actress Lupita Nyong’o talking about accepting the color of her skin.

The holiday shopping season will be ending on a much higher note than the one it started with.

This year's 30th anniversary of the KlezKamp, an annual week-long Yiddish folks art festival, will be its last.