Back to school. Back to reading, writing, arithmetic and religion.

If learning about evolution is essential for understanding contemporary science, if learning about sex is essential for adolescent health, is learning about religion any less essential for understanding a world of powerful and often literally explosive religious allegiances?

After a quarter-century of complaints abou...

A Polish minister took a swipe at Germany over the legacy of World War II, claiming Friday that young Germans don't know that it was started by the Nazis. On the 67th anniversary of the start of the conflict, Culture Minister Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski said Poland will compile a list of the millions of its citizens who died under Nazi occupation. The list, he said, would help combat a "proces...

Throughout the country, municipal governments are thinking about whether to fine landlords for renting to illegal immigrants.

Local laws that target landlords will exacerbate the segregation of illegal Latino and Asian immigrants into enclaves where assimilation is slowed. It will impose an unfair burden on landlords. And the verification process will either burden citizens by requiring ...

Mountain Lakes police say woman offered prostitution services

MOUNTAIN LAKES --An East Brunswick woman was charged with prostitution Thursday after a five-month investigation of a borough massage parlor that solicited customers for sex, authorities said.

Qingpei Wang, 50, was charged with two counts of the disorderly persons offense after she allegedly offered prostitution services ...

According to contactmusic.com, Morello says the time he heard the album he could not play a single chord. He claims that the band and the album changed his life and sparked creativity in would-be musicians the world over.

He says: 'My punk rock revelation would have to be 'Anarchy In The UK'. Now that was absolutely life changing. I didn't play guitar before I heard that song but 48 h...

Why am I considered a fag hag when most of my family is gay and my friends are gay?

Quit asking me why the cute twinks won’t go home with you. Have you looked in a mirror lately?

I am sick of older men who want to date younger guys and then claim they are sick of kids. If you don’t want to be with someone who likes to go out, travel and have fun, then date someone your o...

, director of the Reuters Foundation university fellowship programme at Green College, Oxford. A former director of the International Broadcasting Trust and head of communications for Oxfam, he is a leading authority on overseas charities.

, chief executive of the Media Trust, which works with the media and communications industry to help the voluntary sector communicate. Last year she wo...

AQUA NIGHT, Friday, September 1, at Apex is Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action’s night to party. Meet at the video bar of Apex, 1415 22nd St., NW, by midnight. $8 cover; 18 to enter and 21 to drink. aquadc@gmail.com or www.aquadc.org .

KHUSHDC, a social and political support group for gay South Asians in the D.C. area, invites you to happy hour on “Chutney Saturda...

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BUSAN, South Korea — The good news is that child labor in Asia is decreasing. The bad news? It's not declining fast enough.

Despite a drop of about 5 million since 2000, working children number an estimated 122 million in Asia, or 64 percent of the worldwide total, according to the International Labor Organization.

That's just slightly less than the entire population of Japa...