The UCLA swimming and diving team will compete at the NCAA Championships from Thursday to Saturday. The Bruins enter the championships, held at College Station, Tex., as the No. Read more...

When the male head of the household dies in the Amazonian native Shuar population, members of this hunter-gatherer community treat this body almost as if it were alive. Read more...

Sunday’s general elections in Spain brought an end to Spain’s conservative Popular Party’s eight-year rule after almost 200 Spaniards were killed in terrorist attacks in Madrid. Read more...

The day Ahmed Alwishah landed in Iraq was the day the U.S. Army captured Saddam Hussein. Alwishah, a graduate student in the UCLA Near Eastern languages and cultures department, had went to Iraq on Dec. Read more...

The Bush administration announced Monday that strict teacher certification requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act would be eased, reducing fears that schools across the nation would face penalties. Read more...

Spain’s incoming prime minister pledged Monday to bring Spanish troops home from Iraq unless the United Nations takes control there, further placing strain on already tender relationships between the United States and its European allies. Read more...

The attack in Madrid last week seems to have been orchestrated by al-Qaeda, timed to change the outcome of Spain’s elections. Apparently, terrorists got their wish. Read more...