More than 200 allegations of irregularities in last week's presidential elections in Afghanistan have been registered, according to the independent commission set up to handle such complaints. Despite domestic accusations from one of the presidential candidates that the vote was rigged, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan called the election "a very well-organized campaign." "The Afghan-led independent electoral commission looks like it managed a pretty good process," Ambassador Karl Eikenberry said Sunday. "There's adjudication systems that have been set up, an ...

It was still dark when Stan Brock began calling out numbers on his megaphone to admit a crowd of hundreds gathered at a Los Angeles sports arena Tuesday morning. "We opened the door at 5:30 and there were 600-odd people already gathered," he told CNN. Over the last week, thousands seeking free medical care have turned up at the mobile health care clinic set up by Remote Area Medical, a non-profit organization founded by Brock. Tuesday marks the final ...

Welcome to democracy, Afghan style. An incumbent president and 38 challengers, including two women, are vying for the votes of 17 million registered Afghans against a backdrop of war, graft, poverty and illiteracy. More than 3,000 donkeys, 3,000 cars and three helicopters will traverse harsh terrain to carry voting materials to remote polling stations. And 30 observer groups, domestic and international, will be on hand to help guard against fraud. This Thursday, Afghanistan holds its second-ever popular election, the ...

Although infertility treatment is becoming more and more popular in China, finding a Chinese couple who wanted to talk about it on camera was nearly impossible. We contacted multiple couples through hospitals, doctors, blogs, word-of-mouth and friends -- but nobody wanted to talk to us. Even parents with happy, healthy babies politely declined. Infertility is still an incredibly private subject in China, in part due to a stigma of being a childless couple. Once couples marry, there is extreme cultural ...

The last British soldier to serve in World War I was buried Thursday, marking "the passing of a generation," the British veterans minister said. Harry Patch died July 25 at the age of 111, a week after fellow British World War I veteran Henry Allingham died at the age of 113. A party of pallbearers escorting his coffin was made up of two Belgian, two French, and two German infantrymen, while his coffin was carried by six soldiers from a ...

Bad news, American Idol fans: This year, it's Paula Abdul who won't be getting the chance to go to Hollywood. During the same prime-time Tuesday time slot so familiar to the show's millions of fans, the high-drama American Idol judge updated her personal Twitter page with news that she was leaving the popular reality show. "With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to #IDOL," Abdul posted to her account around 7:30 p.m. on the west coast. ...

Ketamine has become the drug of choice among young people, as the number of people under 21 taking drugs has surged 57 percent in the last four years in Hong Kong, said Commissioner for Narcotics, Sally Wong.

Top seed Serena Williams has crashed out of the Bank of the West Classic, but her older sister Venus reached the semifinals after thrashing Maria Sharapova. Wimbledon champion and world No. 2 Serena was upset 6-2 3-6 6-2 by unseeded Samantha Stosur in the first of Friday's quarterfinals, as the Australian earned a last-four clash with Marion Bartoli. The eighth-seeded Frenchwoman progressed after continuing her dominance over former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic, defeating the Serbian fourth seed for the ...

Dr. Conrad Murray was suffering financially with nearly $435,000 in judgments and liens against him over the past two years, according to court documents. Then he decided to leave his practice and work for Michael Jackson, getting paid $150,000 a month. Before working with the King of Pop, Murray spent most of his time operating clinics in both Nevada and Texas after graduating from Meharry Medical College, a historically black school in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989. He spent his internship ...

What could be more French than sex? More sex, as it turns out — especially if you happen to be a woman. Nearly 40 years after France's May 1968 revolution spawned the slogan "pleasure without obstruction," a new study finds that the French of both genders are engaging in more varied and frequent sex than ever before — and both earlier and later into life. Yet perhaps the most significant finding in the report is that French women have ...