A British Army interpreter in Afghanistan sent a coded message to an Iranian military attache offering to spy for the country of his birth, prosecutors said at the opening of his trial Monday.

The nation’s leading pediatricians group says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence that it may help prevent serious diseases.

The British government injected an unprecedented 37 billion pounds ($63 billion) into the country’s leading banks Monday to avoid a full-scale collapse of the sector.

Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants.

Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be . .

Scientists have confirmed the second case of a “virgin birth” in a shark.

Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times. But the voters in working-class enclaves such as this still are a sought-after prize in presidential politics, and many are backing Obama.

W. star Josh Brolin has finally opened up over the headline-grabbing scuffle that took place at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport, Louisiana this past July. In what has to be one of the worst wrap parties in history, Brolin wound up maced. . .

With all of the tabloid rhetoric the McCain – Palin campaign pounds the American people with, they are only succeeding at giving Obama the chance to look more presidential amidst all of the Obama-Ayers claims.