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In another installment of the cat-and-mouse game that the affair of the CIA spy's leaked name has become, conservative columnist Robert Novak gave an unexpected glimpse yesterday at his role in the matter, something he promised he would not do until it...

Balancing a 100-pound bag of grain on top of her head, Koini Ousala trudged uphill to her corner of this remote village of one-room mud huts. She had much to do, Ousala explained. She had to pound her sack of millet into meal for porridge and flour for...

In their colorful dresses, holding children who cry from hunger, two dozen women gather beneath a twisted, ancient Tchedia tree. Sitting on the ground before them is a rusted metal box. Baraka Sani pats the little box and explains how it changed her life...

Ebocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the...

WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor questioned President Bush for more than an hour yesterday as part of an investigation into who illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer. The rare interview by a prosecutor with a sitting president is...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration rejected a United Nations role in the search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction yesterday, brushing aside arguments that international inspectors are needed to lend credibility to any discoveries. Ari Fleischer,...

Two African dinosaurs introduced today by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno are shining a new light on the mystery of how and when Africa, South America, India and Antarctica broke apart 100 million years ago to form the world's southern...

FANISAU, Nigeria - If it were possible to wind back the centuries, Halima Umar's village would probably look much as it does today. Umar and her neighbors fetch water by lowering a bucket into a hand-dug well, toil in fields of millet and guinea corn, and...

WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he had "no doubt" going to war against Iraq was the right action but sidestepped a question about using evidence that turned out to be bogus to bolster his case for toppling Saddam Hussein. Speaking in...

There were no rules and, officially, no contest in our search for the 8th Wonders. But we did promise to give someone "something nice from the Travel section" for taking part. That "something nice" is a copy of National Geographic's brand new "Atlas of...

WASHINGTON - Walking through the Capitol last week, Dick Cheney marched past the assembled journalists who hoped to question him, brushing them off in his inflection-less voice with a curt, "Good morning," before slipping behind closed doors. The vice...

To explore the land where hurricanes are born, Sun-Sentinel foreign correspondent E.A. Torriero first interviewed meteorologists from around the world. Based on information from those interviews, Torriero and Sun-Sentinel photographer Mike Stocker...