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.
Merkel calls the elections ‘illegal' German Chancellor Angela Merkel again spoke out against elections in Ukraine's eastern region, which is controlled by separatists, calling them "illegal".
An election in the separatist regions of Ukraine may shatter a fragile ceasefire between the rebel forces and Kiev. Backed by Russia, the separatist rebels held elections in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, but no country other than Russia recognized the election results.
Reeva Steenkamp's parents revealed that they would be willing to personally confront Oscar Pistorius and question him over the murder of their 29-year-old daughter.
In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, a memorial to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs was dismantled after Tim Cook, the man that succeed Jobs at the helm of the multi-billion dollar computer manufacturing company, came out as gay.
Although meteorologists don’t expect the strong force that Hurricane Vance is delivering to last too much longer, the storm system was still measured as a category two hurricane in the Eastern Pacific as of Monday afternoon.
The construction of the building, which has a designed inspired by pre-Hispanic architecture, will be finished by January 2016 but will cost the Bolivian government $36 million.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised Eurovision drag queen Conchita Wurst Monday for the gay singer's fight against discrimination and intolerance.
Twenty five people were arrested Monday for protesting the work of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the government agency that approvals projects for producing and moving natural gas - pipelines, natural gas facilities, compressors. The arrests are just the beginning of a week of protests planned at the agency. Often times the pipelines and compressors are going through areas not normally associated with industrialization.
It's like something that came out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel. Newser reports that Hong Kong police said they arrested a British man suspected of murdering two women in cold blood within his high-rise upscale apartment. In the course of investigation, officers discovered a nearly decapitated body stuffed inside a suitcase and left on the suspect's 31st floor balcony.
Weight-loss surgery can be a highly effective step not just to treat, but also to prevent type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. A British research found that "even after accounting for other factors that influence diabetes," the procedure reduced obese individuals' risk of developing the ailment by 80 percent.
