Does Russian preisdent Vladimir Putin (pictured) keep in fighting shape by following a secret diet popular among Kremlin officials? He just might, if a new Russian diet book is to be believed.

In the depths of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were in a neck-and-neck race to dominate outer space. The countries' respective intelligence agencies were under marching orders...

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I went on a road trip with my best friends from college this summer. The trip was wonderfully surreal and filled with moments of comfortable silence, belly-laughing and conversation that at times was serious, but at others oddly forgettable.

Unfortunately, we were together to attend the memorial service and burial of our ...

UND has rolled its way to a 6-0 record, crushing two nationally ranked teams along its route.

Today, the Sioux play host to Ferris State of Michigan - a team still searching for its identity - in a nonconference game in the Alerus Center, where UND has won 22 straight games. A year ago, UND beat Ferris 45-0.

"We're 6-0, but all of our goals are still ahead of us," UND defensive lin...

TORONTO -- In the battle of the bulge, people have tried nearly everything from the Mediterranean and South Beach diets to the much-hyped low-carb technique.

Increasingly, weight loss has gone hi-tech with a slew of cyberdiet options using hand-held devices like PDAs and camera-enabled cellphones to keep track of food intake.

The trend, says nutrition expert Gordon Zello, is promisi...

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I went on a road trip with my best friends from college this summer. The trip was wonderfully surreal and filled with moments of comfortable silence, belly-laughing and conversation that at times was serious, but at others oddly forgettable.

Unfortunately, we were together to attend the memorial service and burial of our ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Unexplained weight loss in older people might be an early signal of Alzheimer's disease, appearing several years before the memory lapses that define the illness, according to an intriguing but unproven new theory.

Researchers at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center base the theory on their study of 820 Roman Catholic priests, nuns and brothers aged 75 on averag...

Wayne Gretzky found out there's more to being an NHL coach than just signing the lineup sheet. For one, it pays to actually read the lineup to make sure only available players are on the ice.

Gretzky committed a major gaffe in his second game as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, and remained winless Thursday night after a 3-2 loss to his old team, the Los Angeles Kings.

Phoenix right w...

Tay Ogletree had another fast start for Mary Persons Friday night and that spelled trouble for Southwest.

For the second straight game, Ogletree ripped off a touchdown run of more than 70 yards in the first quarter, this time helping the Bulldogs to a 48-0 romp in a GHSA Region 3-AAA game at Dan Pitts Stadium. The senior's 75-yard touchdown dash in this game helped him to 142 yards and t...

All three Rapee girls have Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. Their scars are the marks of the constant vigil they must keep on their blood-insulin levels.

Several times a day, every day, the girls either poke their fingers or have their parents do it for them. Before they eat, exercise or sleep, they take a dab of blood, touch it to a strip of paper, insert the strip into a cellphone-size mo...

About 10 years after a third-round technical knockout of somebody named Everett Berry on March 19, 1996, in his pro debut at Tempe's Club Rio, Corrales (40-2, 33 KOs) faces an encore with Jose Luis Castillo (52-7-1, 46 KOs).

However, Castillo's chances at reversing his loss in a wild 10th round last May were complicated Friday by an inability to make weight. In his first step on the sca...