Rates of syphilis infections have increased in the United States – but only among men, reported Medical Daily. An annual report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that syphilis infections increased by 11 percent in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available. …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least 20 police officers have been killed after militants ambushed checkpoints in the country’s volatile southern Helmand province. Mohammad Ismail Hotak, the head of the province’s joint coordination of police and military operations, said Saturday the ambushes late Friday night hit checkpoints …

TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s government says a gunbattle between security forces and extremists preparing an imminent attack has left three troops and one of the attackers dead. Mohamed Ali Aroui, a spokesman for Tunisia’s Interior Ministry, says the firefight in the tense region of Sidi Bouzid began around dawn on …

JERUSALEM – An online group promoting Mideast peace is receiving a high-powered boost of support as it prepares to pass a key milestone. The YaLa-Young Leaders program says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and five European foreign ministers will address its online peace conference on July 2. Former President Bill Clinton …

As we look ahead to Father’s Day I want to share with you some of the great advice I got from my dad growing up that’s still relevant today — advice I share in my new book ‘Getting Real.’ First –on letting go things that are for the most part …

ISLAMABAD– A U.S. consular worker has been remanded in police custody for six days after shooting dead two armed assailants in Pakistan. Raymond Davis may face murder charges after the pair approached him on a motorcycle shortly after withdrawing money from an A.T.M. in the eastern city of Lahore on …

If you think the U.S. housing market is in bad shape now, prepare yourself for the “tsunami” that’s coming. That’s what at least one financial expert is saying. Charles Brown of CB3 Financial says that instead of selling foreclosed homes, banks have been hanging onto them, waiting for the economy …

Every four years, a new official soccer ball is designed for and used during World Cup matches. And every four years, players — and this time even scientists — criticize the new ball. “It’s a little sad that the World Cup has balls of such poor quality,” Iker Casillas of …

A scientific branch of the Vatican is touting a climate-change report that fears for the fate of the world’s glaciers, appearing to support an erroneous conclusion from the United Nations’ climate panel that skeptics have loudly debunked. But the Vatican’s authors are some of the same people responsible for the …

They’re trying to save the world — one house at a time. Thousands of college students around the country have spent the past two years designing and building entire solar-powered homes to compete in the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. later this year. The list …