Why is that extra e wrong? A growing band of scholars say we should allow more variations in spelling

More athletes are competing in Beijing under foreign flags than ever before in the Games' history. Is switching teams a betrayal of the Olympic spirit -- or just smart sportsmanship?

Moscow's regional threats ended up making Poland more resolved to embrace the controversial U.S. missile shield

What the lopsided conflict is teaching military strategists, policymakers and soldiers about fighting wars

It was the gold that China had been waiting for -- until superstar Liu Xiang limped off the track in front of a packed Bird's Nest audience of 90,000. What went wrong?

Matt Emmons is a champion marksman. But for the second straight Olympics, an epic gaffe costs the American a gold. At least his wife is on target

Phelps, Torres and company rack up 31 medals as Phelps looks ahead to London 2012

Thanks to a policy of equal treatment, the host nation's female athletes have comfortably contributed more than half of the country's gold medals

Facing a shortage of kidneys and long hospital waiting lists, Singapore ponders going where few countries have gone before: legalizing the buying and selling of organs

The worst yet in a spate of suicide bombings stokes fears of more attacks during the coming holy month