NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many Americans will rediscover their love of the open road this Memorial Day holiday weekend, prompted in part by gasoline prices that are nearly 40 percent lower than last year.

A US court largely upholds a ruling that cigarette makers lied about health risks by using labels such as "low tar"

IVF twins face more health problems in early life than naturally conceived twins, experts suggest.

Scientists who have mapped HIV's spread across Europe say holidaymakers are largely to blame.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday sweeping reforms that restrict credit card interest rates and fees, marking a victory for Democrats trying to help

GENEVA (Reuters) - The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people, World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday.

Experts believe they have discovered why pancreatic cancer can be so resistant to drug treatment.

Eleven new cases of swine flu are found at a Spanish military school, bringing the country's total to 126, officials say.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded not guilty on Friday after a prison court formally charged the Nobel laureate for allowing an univited American intruder inside

Everyone aged 55 and over should be taking drugs to lower their blood pressure, a UK-based expert says.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview released on Saturday he was confident General Motors would thrive after restructuring, but he made no mention whether the ailing

Scientists produce more evidence that vitamin D helps keep the brain in good working order in later life.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had offered to resume talks with Cuba about Cuban migration to the United States, a fresh sign of U.S. President Barack Obama's

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's former President Roh Moo-hyun, hounded for weeks over his links while in office to a widening corruption scandal, appears to have jumped to his death in the mountains

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned on Friday against a false sense of security from waning and apparently mild outbreaks of H1N1 flu, saying the worst may not be over.

Sri Lanka's quarter-century-long civil war is in its final phase, the government suggested Friday, as its troops pounded Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's north.

A third of the world's population could be infected with swine flu, expert projections suggest.

South Asian children often fail to get good dental care in England, research shows.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's remote Kermadec Islands region Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Journalist Roxana Saberi landed in Vienna on Friday after being freed from an Iranian prison, according to the U.S. Embassy in Austria.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday revived the system of military trials for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo, angering supporters who said he had broken a promise to end

Three charges have been filed against a Missouri man who is accused of swimming across a lake and sneaking into the home of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi while she was under house arrest,

Patient safety could be jeopardised as immigration rule changes could lead to a doctor shortage, a union warns.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities have warned people about a huge emergency-response drill set for New York City's World Trade Center on Sunday, seeking to avoid panic like one caused by an unannounced

The Federal Trade Commission is attempting to shut down three companies that the agency alleges have bombarded millions of consumers since 2007 with deceptive "robocalls" to sell them phony