Chancellor Albert Carnesale defended his proposal to double fees while increasing financial aid during a conference Friday, saying it is one of the five options he believes is available to combat the increasingly glum financial situation the University of California faces in the future. Read more...

In early 2003, violence between non-Arab rebel groups and government-supported Arab militias broke out in the Darfur region of Sudan. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead, more than 1.5 million displaced and 200,000 seeking refuge in the neighboring country of Chad. Read more...

TIJUANA “”mdash; Twelve miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Tijuana’s many orphanages sits on a gradual hill, overlooking a landscape lush with beds of green grass and studded with patches of broken-down houses and tire yards. Read more...

Sitting in the living room of his Hollywood Hills home Wednesday morning, English Professor Lawrence Grobel gushes about a course he teaches on interviewing. He pulls four books on the subject from a nearby shelf and piles them onto a table. Read more...

The coffeehouses of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe were places where the embers of revolution were stoked. The coffeehouses of twenty-first century Westwood are places where a bit of flirting, some gossiping and maybe a little studying are done. Read more...

The formation of the stem cell research oversight commission mandated by the passage of Proposition 71 began last week as the University of California made six appointments to the Independent Citizens Oversight Commission. Read more...

UCLA’s normally bustling campus seems eerily quiet at 9 p.m. on a foggy Friday night. Its 36,000 students have all left for the weekend and signs of life are few. Read more...