Beijing will phase out polluting vehicles known as 'yellow-label' cars over the next year in a bid to improve the capital's notoriously poor air quality. Beijing issues yellow labels to cars whose ...

Local gays and lesbians and their advocates are furious over a new Pentagon definition of homosexuality as a defect, but heartened that U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan, D-Lowell, is leading a protest. The ...