Buyer beware, though, cautions a team of psychologists who’ve just published a lengthy report about online dating, now a billion-dollar industry. The problem, they say, is that these websites have no scientific evidence to back up their claims that they can find your soulmate.

Amid reports of more than 500 dogs sickened by chicken jerky pet treats imported from China, government health officials are ramping up border inspections for dangerous toxins, including melamine.

Unable to carry a baby, one woman turned to her sisters for help, and is now expecting a gift greater than she could have ever imagined.

An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years.

Heavy snow fell across Italy on Saturday, blanketing the capital Rome, cutting off mountain villages and disrupting roads, railways and airports around the country.

An avalanche hit a village in Kosovo's mountainous south Saturday, killing a married couple and their 17-year-old son and leaving nine others missing, police said, as heavy snow continued to blanket the Balkans.

This incredible weather phenomenon only occurs in very specific conditions and pilot JR Hott captured it all with his camera in five minutes!

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.

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.

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A new unpublished history of the Afghanistan war details hows American forces, hamstrung by inadequate resources, missed opportunities to stabilize Afghanistan during the early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

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church Saturday to remember two young boys killed when their father burned their house to the ground with himself and his sons inside.

Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims, and authorities continued to search another site for the remains of as many as 10 people.

David Lovrak, one of the 911 operators who took a call from a social worker outside Josh Powell's house, said in an interview with NBC’s "Dateline" he had no idea of the severity of the situation.

With their musical achievements crafted in attics, basements, bungalows, Victorians, Jersey cottages and Hollywood mansions, the legends of pop, folk, alternative, rap and rock have shown that home may not be where the heart is, but it's definitely where the art is.

Utah prosecutors have reluctantly allowed a condemned killer Michael Archuleta to seek execution by firing squad rather than by lethal injection.

Paying taxes is bad enough. Finding out you pay a larger percentage of your income than presidential candidate Mitt Romney or billionaire Warren Buffet makes it even worse.

Shares of LinkedIn surged Friday after the company reported quarterly sales that more than doubled and passed a major milestone, chalking up 150 million registered users worldwide.

Movie actor and director Clint Eastwood appeared on CNBC Friday to discuss a big issue he thinks the country needs to focus on right now: cutting spending.

The platinum-selling rock star who has promoted the city of Detroit worldwide has a clear message for his hometown newspaper: Cancel my subscription.

With their musical achievements crafted in attics, basements, bungalows, Victorians, Jersey cottages and Hollywood mansions, the legends of pop, folk, alternative, rap and rock have shown that home may not be where the heart is, but it's definitely where the art is.

Institutions in China that care for orphans will no longer be allowed to name children in their care in ways that signal their parentless status, a government ministry said this week.

British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that the Islamic Republic would soon announce "very major" advances in its nuclear program.

Heavy snow fell across Italy on Saturday, blanketing the capital Rome, cutting off mountain villages and disrupting roads, railways and airports around the country.

An avalanche hit a village in Kosovo's mountainous south Saturday, killing a married couple and their 17-year-old son and leaving nine others missing, police said, as heavy snow continued to blanket the Balkans.

Are global warming skeptics being armed with a new weapon? Estimates from satellite monitoring suggest the melt rate from the Himalayas has been much less than predicted.

Donald Trump claims Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, seems "hell-bent on destroying Scotland's coastline" with a wind farm near his golf resort, British media report.

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.

Trae Golden scored 17 points, Jeronne Maymon added 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Tennessee upset No. 8 Florida 75-70 Saturday, ending the Gators' home-winning streak at 19.

Charlie Wi played bogey-free at Spyglass Hill for a 3-under 69 to build a three-shot lead Saturday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Now it's time for him to face his demons of self-doubt — along with a familiar force in golf.

Arc: No. 5 UNC bounces back, beats No. 19 Virginia

Phil Pressey's first 3-point attempt went in off the glass. The sophomore guard, known more for flashy, no-look passes than his outside touch, took that sketchy success and ran with it.

Jeremy Lin came with an intriguing story even before he escaped the New York Knicks' bench.