Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital.

But what he really wanted was to go to war.

In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans ...

CALI, Colombia -- Ask Ana Julia Torres how many children she has, and she'll say 652: two human offspring plus the hundreds of tigers, lions, mules, snakes, monkeys and other species residing at her refuge north of here. The creatures have ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- This spring, a local political candidate in Roanoke, Va., started an appeal for bedsheets to help U.S. MASH units in Afghanistan, which had run short and been forced to put wounded troops on ripped, bloodstained linen, she ...

MIAMI -- When Berta Soler, leader of Cuba's dissident Ladies in White, returned to the island last month after her first-ever trip abroad, she felt ready to resume the grinding struggle against the communist government.

Soler had received a hero'...

LONDON -- After years of unrelenting austerity, Europe seems to have turned a corner on its debt crisis -- right into a dead-end street.

Since the turmoil erupted in 2009, countries from Ireland to Greece have focused almost exclusively on ...