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The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school.

For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school. Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the ...

It's estimated that more than 10.5 million teenagers in the U.S. drink. And a new survey of underage drinkers finds that many of them are getting booze from adults, including their parents.

The Southwest has the lowest rate of health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new government study.

New England -- with a rate of uninsured people less than half that of the Southwest -- has the largest proportion of its population covered, the study found.

The study marks the first time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compared different regions of the country by health insurance status, said Robin Cohen, the lead researcher.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help kids affected by the war in Iraq, the Education Partnership for Children of ...

Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.

The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide.

Many of the children forced into prostitution are either runaways or what authorities call "throwaways" -- kids whose families have shunned them. Officials say they are preyed upon by organized networks of pimps who lure them in with shelter or drugs, then often beat, starve or otherwise abuse them until the children agree to work the streets.

Rescue crews are searching the central Sierra Nevada for nine teenagers and two adult hikers who are missing in a rugged area of the mountains.

Fresno County authorities say the group -- teens between the ages of 13 to 16 -- and two 30-year-old adults guides -- failed to meet up with a third guide as planned on Saturday.

The group is hiking as part of a two-week Outward Bound adventure.

Authorities say a Fresno County Search and Rescue Team, along with volunteer mountaineers, mounted posse and a helicopter are involved in the search.

The House passed legislation to block a July 1 cut in fees for Medicare doctors by instead reducing payments to private insurers in the U.S. health-care program for the elderly and disabled.

One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their ...

Caption: Brooke Shields The 62nd Tony Awards at the Radio City Music Hall - Arrivals New York City, USA .... Actress BROOKE SHIELDS has vowed to support her kids if they choose to pursue a career in the ...

Britney Spears and a parenting coach were questioned Tuesday by the court commissioner overseeing the singer's custody dispute, resulting in an unspecified change in visitation status. Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline appeared before Commissioner Scott Gordon, who took the one-hour proceeding behind closed doors.

Court spokesman Allan Parachini stressed afterward that the answers given by Spears and parenting coach Lisa Hacker were not considered testimony.

Spears' behavior was "very businesslike," Parachini said.

Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our early 30s and have three kids. I am very sociable, but my husband is not.

Comedian Sandra Bernhard is best known for her outrageous live shows, her memorable star turn in the film "The King of Comedy" in the 1980s and a famous feud with her former best friend forever, Madonna.

A Russian regional court on Monday convicted four teenagers of burning a man to death in the eternal flame of their town's World War II memorial.

THE mayor of a US city where there has been a spike in teenage pregnancies says a lack of funds and the media's glamourisation of pregnancy are to blame.

The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a government ban on flavoured cigarillos after a national youth smoking survey found a high proportion of teens have at least experimented with the product.

Recess was Allie Long's favorite part of the day until the second grade, when some of her friends on the playground pressured her to join their whisper campaign against a classmate.

Police said three teenagers were caught stealing signal horns from freight trains because they were using two-way radios to carry out their raid.

At a dining hall filled with the chatter of summer campers eating lunch, the photos on one wall bear witness that this is no ordinary camp.

Pictures of mothers and fathers in uniform are adorned with notes in the bubbly penmanship of youngsters whose parents have or will serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

'My dad,' reads a note taped to the photo of a man in Air Force uniform. Another, written in thick, red marker: 'So me and my brother all have to be strong and make sacrifices for my dad because we all want him to come back.'

Medicaid is a program that has remained in perpetual crisis over the three decades that I've been writing about Mississippi state government.