Complete Index

After Gov. Mark Sanford confessed to having an extramarital affair, he joined the company of countless other men in power. Journalists, psychologists and pundits explore why so few female politicians are faced with the same dilemma.

On June 25, 1947, young Holocaust victim Anne Frank’s diary is posthumously published when her father, Otto Frank, prints 1,500 copies in Dutch.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that judges may ask those testifying in court to remove niqabs, or Islamic facial veils, at their discretion. Where is the balance between religious rights and security?

Chefs across America are donating their skills to homeless shelters, transforming donated food into gourmet meals.

Nicknamed the “human iPod,” pianist Derek Paravicini is wowing audiences with his extraordinary repertoire of thousands of songs he can play entirely by memory.

Many of the young creative upstarts previously populating bohemian neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s Williamsburg are moving out because their parents can no longer support them.

Suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the death of Meriwether Lewis, the family of the famed explorer wants to exhume his body to try to learn the truth.

The last surviving passenger of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, died in her sleep Sunday morning.

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal battled ice and storms to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain.

A recently deceased widow left more than $500,000 to residents of the small seaside village where she lived, joining the ranks of others who have left similarly surprising sums.

Jake Nyberg uses his 1980s hairstyle as a tool to reveal snobbery and raise money.

Kevin Laue, who was born without his left forearm, became the first disabled player to receive a Division I basketball scholarship when he accepted an offer from Manhattan College.

The wild tale of the conman accused of kidnapping his own daughter and adopting a number of aliases goes before the court this week.

A woman looking for the brother her mother gave up for adoption in 1977 discovered he has been her neighbor for more than two years.

Girls can benefit from sports in many ways, but in developing countries where it can help them the most, overcoming discrimination isn’t easy.

The recession has inspired positive holistic change in American society, and what might be bad for business may actually be good for people.

One high school senior in Indiana was planning to sit out her prom this year, but at the last minute her knight in shining, white sneakers arrived.

Calvin Borel, who began riding racehorses at age 8 and dropped out of eighth grade to become a jockey, could become the first rider to win the Triple Crown on different horses.

Austrian mourners have complained that new talking tombstones are disruptive; but are they just the next postmortem fad as technology and memorials meet?

After the tragic shooting of Warren-Prescott School student Soheil Turner, his grief-stricken classmates won the Massachusetts statewide singing contest, overcoming their sorrow through music. 

Two women from Oregon turned a potentially devastating situation into a new friendship after learning last month that they had been switched at birth.

In New Zealand, a violent criminal running from authorities has inspired celebration, T-shirts and beer drinking.

Thanks to YouTube, Americans are riveted to a show they can't even watch as another contestant, Greg Pritchard, shocks the judges and gives Susan Boyle a run for her money.

A painful lump above Gavin Hyatt's bellybutton ruptured and excreted his twin, absorbed by Hyatt in utero. Other cases of "vanishing twins" are rare, but have recently made headlines.

The last survivor of the Titanic sinking can’t pay for her nursing home care, and an Irish photographer has started a campaign to help.

A three-year-old boy survived alone for two days in the Missouri wilderness. Experts say some people have what it takes to survive in such harsh conditions, and some people do not.

McCarthy has owned and trained horses for decades. At the age of 75, the Louisville native has a horse, General Quarters, in the race for the first time.

Retired Col. Diane Schroer has been awarded almost a half million dollars for losing a job offer after admitting plans for gender change surgery.

On April 30, 1993, top-ranked tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed during a match by a fan of rival player Steffi Graf.

Former private eye and paroled ex-con Larry Levine has made a business out of explaining the nuances of prison society to potential white-collar inmates.