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A new report by the Environmental Working Group finds that the vast majority of popular cereals marketed to kids exceed guidelines that call for no more than 26 percent added sugar by weight.

An panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health suggests doctors should rethink their approach to treating prostate cancers. One of the recommendations is most low-risk prostate tumors shouldn't be labeled as cancer in the first place.

By day, "Ahmed" worked a regular job; by night, he protested against the Syrian government. He knew that "one day my time is coming." That grim prediction came true when he was grabbed off the streets and taken to a detention center, where a "welcome beating" was just the beginning.

Eurozone leaders are debating new rules. The question is — how will they enforce them?

Early results indicate that the incoming Parliament is likely to be dominated by Islamists. But two leading Islamist blocs — the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists — have little in common and are doing their best to undermine each other.

The candidate's recent — and sudden — rise in the polls has required him to quickly pull together a larger campaign organization. He has added paid staffers in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and has a group of unpaid advisers. Still, the chief figure in the Gingrich brain trust remains Gingrich himself.

In 1857, a group of American intellectuals founded The Atlantic and used it to challenge the institution of slavery. Now, on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, a new issue of the magazine reaches back to a time when slavery — and the future of the United States — was still an open question.

Americans are healthier today than they were 20 years ago. But increases in obesity and diabetes threaten to overwhelm the progress we've made on smoking, violent crime and deaths from heart disease and strokes.

The Greek government has been accused in the past of making its financial figures look better than they really were. But now, the man in charge of the statistical office is being investigated to see if he intentionally made the deficit look worse.

New York University professor Nouriel Roubini says Europe's debt troubles are so profound, the continent is falling into a "recession that will get worse and worse."