The Nobel shows Obama is still popular abroad. But it doesn't help much if the U.S. is seen as a banana republic.

My boyfriend's proposal was more about my need for health care than our shared romance.

Ad revenue at the high-end magazine company may drop by $1 billion by year's end.

Evangelical Christian Brent Childers explains his journey from believing that homosexuality was an abomination to marching in a pro-gay march on Washington.

Photomicrography captures the beauty of our world, up close.  

Soon, it'll be up to a jury in Perugia to decide whether Amanda Knox killed Meredith Kercher. How the evidence stacks up.

A new ad goes too far when it says Medicare will be "bankrupt" in eight years.

Go ahead. But you'll need at least $338,000 in savings and a clean bill of health.

A bipartisan drug policy 20 years in the making?

Political foes join together to oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan.

A Texas school district finds it has students walking across the border every day from Mexico, and kicks them out.

Only when the death toll shatters records does the media pay attention to devastation and destruction by natural calamities.

The obscenely high new bank fees for ATM usage and overdrawn checks.

What to make of the surprising new data.

Seeking fortune and fame, entrepreneurs rushed to create programs for Apple's App Store. That's not always what they found.

A year later, the banking industry remains largely unregulated. Why one former official thinks Obama's current team won't be able to turn the economy around.

Three scientists were honored for their work on telomeres. But don't expect these chromosomal caps to herald a wave of medical breakthroughs just yet.

Don't worry about the U.S.-China trade war over poultry and car tires. Worry about the coming conflict over T-bills and derivatives.

In the tense final days before the FBI arrested Afghan-American Najibullah Zazi on terror-conspiracy charges, the Feds had a major scare: NEWSWEEK has learned that Zazi managed to shake off the posse of Joint Terrorism Task Force investigators who were tailing him and disappeared for anywhere between 40 and 90 minutes. Now the Feds worry that during the time he was missing, Zazi could have ordered associates to get rid of a suspected cache of bombmaking materials that they believe the suspects had amassed.

Not if you're at 'high risk' of collapse. Here's how to save the U.S. Postal Service.