The cover of the January 2009 issue of O magazine says it all: "How Did I Let This Happen Again?" A photo of Oprah Winfrey at her current weight of 200 lb. is juxtaposed with an image of her formerly slender self. Inside the magazine, Winfrey writes, "I felt completely defeated. I thought, I give up. I give up. Fat wins." That moment of yielding fully to addiction is what Alan Marlatt, director of the Addictive Behaviors Research ...

On Oct. 13, 2009, the Oncupinar border gate between Turkey and Syria played a starring role in a diplomatic photo op. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Moualem, shook hands, smiled for the cameras and — en route to signing an agreement to end visa requirements between the two countries later that day — lifted the border barrier. The symbolism was lost on no one. Only 11 years earlier, thousands of Turkish troops ...

On the winding route from friendship to marriage, Prince William and Kate Middleton have transformed mere buildings into monuments of their love. There’s St. Andrew's University, where they met as college students in 2001. There's St. James's Palace, where they held their engagement-day photo call in November 2010. And, according to Hana Umezawa, who is leading today’s Will & Kate Royal Wedding Walking Tour through London, there’s Mahiki, the Polynesian-themed tiki bar where Wills drowned his sorrows ...

A search was on Thursday night for nine people left missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean near Southern California, officials said.

China has invited reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to visit at his convenience, state media in both countries reported.

A South African government minister called on Leonard Chuene to resign after the national athletics chief admitted he knew Caster Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the world championships. Chuene was forced into a humiliating climbdown after previously denying that Semenya had been tested before going to Berlin to win the women's 800m title. Deputy sports minister Gert Oosthuizen condemned Chuene in a statement released on Saturday evening. "Mr Chuene has not only lied to us as ...

You don't want to monkey around on a blind date -- especially if your friends are also taking an interest in the same dark handsome stranger. So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that they would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk -- well, they went a bit bananas The latest development in Anglo-French relations sees Yeboah, a 20-stone 12-year-old leave his current home at La Boissiere Du Dore Zoo, Pays de la Loire, northwest France ...

A new photo of ailing Communist leader Fidel Castro surfaced on Sunday -- the second in 10 days -- revealing a more healthy-looking man than in prior photos. Published in Cuba's state-run youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the photo shows Castro, 83, meeting with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. The photo shows a well-groomed Castro wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and standing face to face with Correa. The meeting took place on Friday and involved economic matters and medical checkups, according to ...

Facebook hates babies. I found this out last night when I logged on as Laszlo Stein, my three-month old son who has been faithfully posting adorable photos and angry commentary since his second-trimester sonogram, back when his listed interests were just kicking and drinking his own urine. In his time on Facebook, he threatened to pee on some, cut others and once posted — next to a photo of him gummily smiling and wearing a kimono — this response ...

"Never wear your make up to bed," implore the beauty editors. But Dolly Parton was never one for following conventional advice on looking good. She sets her own standards, from her striking sculptured hair to the bright lashings of eyeshadow caked on a face that she has admitted in the past owes a lot to modern surgery. "I know I'm a bit over-exaggerated; I wear too much makeup, too much hair," the singer-songwriter and theme park co-owner told CNN's Revealed. ...