Russian state television has released a photograph taken by satellite that it believes shows a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Harvard grad and mayor of Colombian city tackles violence using scientific tool A mayor of a violent town in Colombia is using scientific techniques to curb crime in his city.
An elderly woman in Poland was incorrectly declared dead on Nov. 6 and sent to a funeral home, only to wake up 11 hours later while in cold storage at the mortuary
WhatsApp used to warn of coming violence in Brazil A forwarded message circulating in northern Brazil warned people to stay inside on the night of Nov.
Son of Sinaloa cartel's boss captured in Mexico The son of alleged Sinaloa drug cartel boss, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, was captured on Thursday, a Mexican official announced, according to The Associated Press.
Boko Haram seized town where schoolgirls were kidnapped in April The extremist Islamic group Boko Haram seized the Nigerian town of Chibok, where the more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from earlier this year, The Associated Press reported.
The former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection to the disappearance of 43 student-teachers in September.
Page now has almost 35,000 likes After massive layoffs at Univision Puerto Rico in October, a new Facebook page calling for a boycott of the company has been launched.
Director Lesley Chilcott's upcoming documentary, "A Small Section of the World" tells the "inspirational story about a group of women from a remote farming region in Costa Rica whose ideas sparked a revolution in the coffee growing world."Grammy-winning, Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette teamed up with renowned Costa Rican musician Carlos "Tapado" Vargas to create a powerful anthem for the film, called "The Morning."
Global authorities said Wednesday that the deaths of a cleric and a nurse from the Ebola virus in Mali went unnoticed and the country is struggling to prevent a major outbreak.
The Islamic State announced Thursday that it will mint its own currency launching an official Islamic State Financial System. The Treasury Department announced that it will mint silver, gold and copper coins.
The coveted Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is known around the world as the fashion industry's leading "strategic partner," highlighting cutting-edge, innovative designs that turn up the needle on the fashion Richter scale. On Nov. 26-27, the event continues to be artistically groundbreaking with its addition of the first-ever Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Guatemala.
Doctors Without Borders will team up with European research organizations, the WHO and the governments of Guinea and Liberia to test two drugs and one treatment, which would hopefully work against the Ebola virus.
