The Strip will go dark the evening of March 27, as the annual Earth Hour event comes to Las Vegas for a second year.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals showed up outside a D.C. elementary school on Tuesday armed with coloring books and a message.

The prom's off at a northern Mississippi school after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend.

The family of an American activist who was fatally crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza accused the Israeli military of whitewashing its investigation into the death Wednesday in opening a civil case against Israel.

The committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner will consider a record 237 nominations for the 2010 award, a Nobel official said Wednesday.

Models in head-to-toe yeti suits picked their way around towering but quickly melting icebergs, sloshing through a deep puddle of Arctic melt in their shaggy fake fur.