About 200 protesters circled Wilshire Boulevard in front of the French consulate Saturday to protest French President Jacques Chirac’s support of a proposal banning religious headscarves and other religious symbols from France’s state schools. Read more...

For Jeffrey Cole, the idea to launch a multi-year international study of the Internet came to him one day in 1998. It occurred to him when he read that television viewing for kids under the age of 14 was down for the first time in history, mostly due to an increase in Internet use. Read more...

Children suffering from malnutrition. War-battered vestiges of formerly bustling cities. For Dr. Andrew Schechtman, a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, such images were part of his daily life as he worked in war-torn Liberia for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more...

A blood shortage facing the UCLA medical community has resulted in emergency blood drives and the need for more student donors to boost a dwindling blood supply. Read more...

When all the glass of a house shatters exactly at the same time, it sends the blaring rattle straight into your head and echoes there for years to come. Read more...

Taco Bell is considering approaching the U.S. Department of Labor to review the wages and living conditions of farmworkers who produce the fast food chain’s tomatoes. Read more...

Online, “instant” communication can be pretty great. Appointments can be arranged or rescheduled, questions answered and some business dealings can be conducted over the Internet. Even quicker than e-mail and possibly as addictive as an illegal substance, AOL Instant Messenger is a communication phenomenon among college students. Read more...