Spanish doctors in Barcelona believe they've found the cure to HIV. By using blood transplants from the umbilical cords of individuals with a genetic resistance to HIV, Spanish medical professionals believe they can best the AIDS-causing virus. The procedure has already been successful, "curing" a patient in just three months.
Drug industry's greed responsible for nearly 5,000 Ebola deaths, WHO says The greed of the pharmaceutical industry has once again been identified as the source for a major roadblock, this time dealing with the lack of a cure for the Ebola virus.
Members of a local drug trafficking gang confessed to killing the 43 students from a teachers college who went missing in September after being attacked by police.
Bats both blamed and possibly holder of a cure for Ebola The same animal responsible for spreading the Ebola virus may hold the cure as well, scientists in the U.
After facing steep criticism claiming favoritism, the administration of Mexican President Peña Nieto has cancelled the contract with a Chinese company to build Latin America's first high-speed train.
Police from the U.S. and Europe collaborate to shut down various dark net sites, including Silk Road 2.0. Agencies arrested 17 people in Europe and the U.S., including Silk Road 2.0's creator.
Russia has been accused of sending 32 tanks as well as various soldiers, trucks and weapons into the separatist region of Luhansk, in spite of the fragile Minsk ceasefire.
Co-founder of the file-sharing website Pirate Bay, Fredrik Lennart Neij, was arrested in Thailand, ending the search for the last of the site's founders.
According to Reuters, the United Nations declared that the shortage of food and basic goods is driving some in quarantine zones to leavedespite the growing number of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone as the country lacks treatment centers.
Environmental activists have been protesting at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission all week. On Thursday veteran's protested the military's use of energy. On Monday 35 people were arrested after blocking entrances to the offices. The agency routinely approves permits for natural gas processing facilities, pipelines and compressors. Many of the projects are cutting through pristine forests and suburb/rural communities.
U.S. immigration attorneys say there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women and girls from Central America seeking asylum in the United States after having been kidnapped and raped, according to Fox News Latino.
NASA spacecraft images capture the golden reflection of the sun on the polar sea of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It is the latest image from a collaborative multi-year mission studying the Saturnian system. Titan is the other land mass that is watery like planet Earth and therefore of deep interest to scientists. It might provide answer to how life on Earth began.
A 23-year-old woman visiting Spain died in a tragic freak accident while she was trying to take a selfie on the Puente de Triana bridge in the city of Seville.
Venezuela is suffering one of the worst outbreaks of tropical diseases in decades, and there has been little response from public health authorities, two non-governmental groups reported Tuesday.
President Barack Obama made a request to Congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to combat Ebola at its West African source and to secure the United States against any possible spread, according to The Associated Press.
Kim Jong-Un, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, appeared in a photo shoot at an orphanage. This marks the second time he has appeared in public since disappearing from the media spotlight more than a month ago.
The leader of Russia once again beat his American counterpart to be crowned Forbes' "most powerful" person. Vladimir Putin, who first ranked first on the magazine's list last year, preserved his spot as "Russia annexed Crimea, stoked a conflict in Ukraine and clinched a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with China."
Tropical Storm Vance, which was a strong Category Two hurricane just yesterday, is rapidly weakening in the Eastern Pacific and was downgraded to tropical storm status on Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday that he would raise the country's minimum wage by 15 percent. The increase will start in December to protect workers from inflation of more than 60 percent.
