A Chat With Howie Mandel, Author Of 'don't Touch Me'

KABUL (Reuters) - The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.

3-d or not 3-D.
That was the question for scientists who, over the howls of fans, put together a computer likeness of William Shakespeare -- complete with sunken eyes, wrinkled skin and the sallow look of a man dying of cancer.
But whether the Bard would have approved -- or...

Not so fast.
A struggling but determined Queens fifth-grader who was told that her hard work over the summer had finally gotten her promoted to the sixth grade was shattered after learning only last week that she's being left back.
Christina LaForge toiled through summer school to raise her...

It's Ditch Day with Dad.
Calling the city's planned one-day school week "foolish," a Queens father of three yesterday said he'd take his kids to the Finger Lakes instead.
"They'll never remember one day of school, but they'll remember a great family trip," said Paul...

Would-be Democratic attorney general Eric Schneiderman, a Man hattan state senator who vows to clean up Albany's ethical swamp, has paid the "queen" of New York lobbying nearly $900,000 to run his primary campaign during the past three weeks, newly disclosed records show.
Ethics watchdogs and one of...