Big Brown has been chosen 3-year-old Male of the Year at the 38th annual Eclipse Awards.

Election officials say opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has won the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

Asia’s longest-serving leader faces a democracy activist he once held as a political prisoner in a run-off vote Tuesday in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election.

President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives’ first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.

Islanders in the cramped city of Male and scores of far-flung atolls began voting Wednesday in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation’s history.

To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia.

Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men. Male relatives of women with such genes often do not realize that they, too, may carry them, and face greater odds of developing.

While vacationing tycoons and bikini-clad Hollywood superstars blissfully sipped drinks on the Maldives’ secluded white beaches, an Islamic revolution fueled by preachers trained in Pakistan and the Middle East was brewing.On Sept. 29, the two faces of...