Lost in the rocky, remote Australian Outback, a former pest exterminator faced dehydration and death. Desperate for food, he turned to what he knew best _ bugs, police said...

In the closing moments of its season finale Sunday, “Desperate Housewives” flashed ahead five years.And while there were no hints to the White House’s occupant or the state of the economy in 2013, viewers got a few clues about...

Saw Htin’s cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy.”He coughed and cried all night,” she explained hysterically to...

Li Zhenhua sank to her knees in front of the police officers blocking one of the few roads leading to the earthquake’s epicenter.Holding her husband’s ID card in her outstretched hands, Li bowed down and lowered her forehead to the...

When Edie packed up and left Wisteria Lane at the end of Sunday’s “Desperate Housewives,” viewers were caught by surprise.The sudden exit of the neighborhood’s blond troublemaker has fans wondering how this plot twist will...

Some survivors arrived half-naked, others wore clothes they scavenged from the dead.Myanmar’s rice-trading town of Labutta _ the only spit of high ground in a vast watery landscape _ has become a beacon of hope for tens of thousands who lived...

Desperate artistic times called for desperate artistic measures. So when the tenor got sick, the conductor stepped in to save the performance of “Aida.”Pittsburgh Opera musical director Antony Walker sang into a microphone from the pit...

Desperate to aid an economy in crisis, the Federal Reserve is ready to deliver yet another big interest rate cut.How big? One-half of a percentage point, some economists say. Investors and others hope for even more, a three-quarters cut or perhaps...

Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler’s unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show. They soon regretted it.The file...

Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler’s unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show.They soon regretted it.The file...