More Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week bringing totals to 298,000, according to the Labor Department. The figure was an increase of 17,000 from the previous week.
Venezuela's murder rate increased again this year, a Venezuelan NGO reports. Despite the low estimates from the government, violence in the South American nation continues, including the murders of high profile victims like a legislator and an LGBT rights activist.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would conduct a one-year status review of the Monarch butterfly to determine if they are warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Ebola test for use on patients with signs and symptoms of the virus infection. In related news, a healthcare worker just returning from Sierra Leone is being treated for Ebola and hospitalized in an isolation unit in Glasgow, Scotland. marking the first known Ebola case in the United Kingdom.
At least 12 people died when a fire broke out aboard a Greek ferry, though rescuers managed to save 427 people off the boat. All passengers and crew have now been evacuated from the vessel in the Adriatic Sea, between the coasts of Italy and Albania.
The renewed diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba included third-party support from as far as the Vatican, with Pope Francis of Argentina facilitating talks and a prisoner swap between the countries.
President Fernandez de Kirchner "adopted" a new presidential godson as part of an Argentine tradition. Somehow tradition and myth intertwined and it became a story about werewolves.
The Peruvian government launched a program on Thursday that is aimed to improve the aid provided to newborn babies and reducing the country's infant mortality rate by three percent, Fox News Latino reported.
The latest scientific discovery has found something close to comic books' "microverse," or miniaturized universe. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope, along with some astronomers, have discovered a dwarf galaxy -- a universe that is 1,000 times smaller than anything previously found.
