Doctors have long assumed that Cesarean sections might be the best choice for babies that will be born preterm. But a new study shows that C-sections are no safer than vaginal delivery for the most fragile of infants, those who are born early and who are small for their age.

For hourly employees, the calculations come almost instantly. How much did that 20-minute traffic jam cost me? What about the 15-minute wait at the coffee shop? When you’re used to being paid by the hour, it's all too easy to equate these time expenditures into dollars lost.

You can save a lot on beauty products if you know how to decipher the ingredient list but for most people that's about as easy as reading ancient Greek.

Drew and Skyler Russert are 16-year-old identical twin brothers who share the same blue eyes, straight hair and love for football. They also share an autism diagnosis. Recent research on twins with autism increasingly links environmental triggers for the disorder.

The usually frigid Canadian city of Winnipeg has been so mild and dry this winter that a snow-sculpting competition has been forced to truck in 200 loads of fake flakes.

Serbia was struggling to keep its power system going, officials warned Thursday, after weeks of record low temperatures in Europe that have snarled traffic, frozen rivers and challenged officials to step up outreach to the vulnerable homeless.

Illinois is basking in its sixth warmest winter in 117 years -- good news for residents who have not had to shovel snow but a red flag for some of the state's most productive businesses: farms.

At least four Balkan nations suspended shipping on the Danube River because of severe frost and the vast amount of ice blocking the heavily traveled waterway.

Organizers of the near-mythical Eleven Cities Tour dealt 16,000 skaters and the nation at large a crushing blow Wednesday when they decided the ice was too thin to hold the 125-mile (200-kilometer) skating marathon for the first time in 15 years.

Hard as it may be to believe if you live in the Northeast or upper Midwest, last January was not the warmest on record across the lower 48 states, federal recordkeepers announced Tuesday.

In a vineyard in Moravia, the Arctic chill striking Europe at least has some people jumping with joy.

A new unpublished history of the Afghanistan war details hows American forces, hamstrung by inadequate resources, missed opportunities to stabilize Afghanistan during the early years of the conflict.

Thirty-seven years later, three people face trial on murder charges for what prosecutors say was an ambush triggered by a love triangle around a woman and three Marine buddies.

A U.S. base on Okinawa is the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japan's security alliance with the United States and dividing its new government in Tokyo.

A survivor of the suicide bombing on the USS Cole in Yemen 10 years ago has died at his Florida home.

The family of a U.S. soldier captured in eastern Afghanistan pleads for his release after the Taliban releases a video showing the airborne infantryman, who has been held more than five months.

It's been 34 years -- and several nuclear accidents later -- but a divided federal panel on Thursday licensed a utility to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. for the first time since 1978.

Hundreds of men and women who served in the U.S. military face deportation and banishment from the country after being arrested.

When it comes to pleasing customers, Costco does a better job than any other major retailer in the country.  At least that is the conclusion from an extensive survey conducted by Consumer Reports.

By Kara Reinhardt, Cheapism.com Could an old mattress be responsible for a lackluster love life? A recent survey found that almost a quarter of respondents with a mattress more than 10 years old report less romance in their lives — and most blame the mattress.

An al-Qaida propaganda outlet has released a new video featuring al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and the leader of Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen.

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed cruise liner Costa Concordia, knew as soon as his ship struck a rock off the island of Giglio on January 13 that he had made a catastrophic error and a 30-year career at sea was ending in disgrace.

Experts say American pro-democracy groups are facing increasing hostility overseas, amid claims of meddling and suspicion they are stooges for U.S. intelligence agencies.

A surgical kit advertised as belonging to a Nazi concentration camp commandant has been withdrawn from sale.

The usually frigid Canadian city of Winnipeg has been so mild and dry this winter that a snow-sculpting competition has been forced to truck in 200 loads of fake flakes.

A conservation group demonstrating an anti-poaching method for reporters in South Africa accidentally killed the rhinoceros they were using in the demonstration.

It's been 34 years -- and several nuclear accidents later -- but a divided federal panel on Thursday licensed a utility to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. for the first time since 1978.

A conservation group demonstrating an anti-poaching method for reporters in South Africa accidentally killed the rhinoceros they were using in the demonstration.

Is your toilet paper wiping out forests used by tigers, elephants, orangutans and other wildlife? The World Wildlife Fund alleged that a major paper supplier is clearcutting in Indonesia.

California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of water, according to new research based on the most-comprehensive analysis of satellite data yet.

Hard as it may be to believe if you live in the Northeast or upper Midwest, last January was not the warmest on record across the lower 48 states, federal recordkeepers announced Tuesday.

Quiet oceans make for calmer right whales, new research suggests. When fewer ships sail the Bay of Fundy, the big baleen whales are less stressed — as evidenced by hormone levels in their poop.

Pakistanis reel in one of the biggest fish in the sea: a whale shark.

Ventre: The Lakers are 14-11 and tied for sixth place in the Western Conference. How much longer can Kobe Bryant keep quiet about his unhappiness with the team?

Dustin Johnson pitched in for eagle on the third hole at Pebble Beach to get a small measure of revenge. He wound up with a 9-under 63, and part of a three-way atop the leaderboard in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

PFT: Last year, Victor Cruz earned $450,000. In return, the Giants received a franchise record for receiving yardage, with 1,536 yards. Next year, Cruz is due to make $490,000. He believes he should get more.

PBT: Jeremy Lin has been entertaining, but the book on him is growing and he is going to have to grow himself to keep this going.

Castrodale: Brian Wilson's beard and the Red Sox's heartbreaking 2011 could be fodder for new product lines.

PFT: Seattle hasn’t been mentioned a lot as a possible landing spot for Peyton Manning, but it probably should be.