South African track star Oscar Pistorius was taken to a prison facility on Tuesday after he was sentenced to five years behind bars for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year.
Less than a week after House Republicans demanded the Obama Administration call for an outright travel ban from three countries suffering from the Ebola epidemic, the Administration announces a restriction on which airports travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone can arrive.
500-pound meth operation busted in California, linked to Mexican drug cartel California police seized what they call a staggering amount of methamphetamine - almost 500 pounds -- and arrested 22 individuals involved in an operation that links to a Mexican drug cartel.
Entomologist Piotr Naskrecki was taking a night stroll in a Guyana rainforest when he heard rustling in the underbrush. He switched on his flashlight expecting to see a small mammal, like a possum, but instead discovered a huge, puppy-size spider.
Prison officials have denied allegations that they began preparing a cell for Oscar Pistorius in case he is jailed for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year.
The CDC is monitoring approximately 1,000 people for Ebola after two nurses contacted the Ebola virus from the Liberian man who died on Oct 9. The U.N. health agency declared Nigeria and Senegal Ebola free after no new cases have appeared for 42 days. The U.S. has requested advanced biological labs to ramp up production of the experimental Ebola treatment, ZMapp.
Turkish government previously refused to help Syrian Kurds The Turkish foreign minister said his government is helping Iraqi Kurdish forces reach the Syrian border town of Kobani to join Syrian Kurds who have been fighting Islamic State militants for more than a month.
Several Senate Democrats penned a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about their opposition to the creation of the largest immigrant detention facility in the country.
After months of almost exclusively bad news regarding Ebola, Nigeria has offered a brief respite, as the country has been declared free of the deadly virus.
A man involved in organizing the outdoor concert in South Korea where 16 people died after falling through a ventilation grate was found dead Saturday from an apparent suicide, according to officials.
New dinosaur species found in Venezuela Western Venezuela has just gifted the scientific community with a new discovery, after a 20-year investigation, of a possible ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
ISIS crucifies 17-year-old boy in Raqqa, Syria The atrocities committed by ISIS are increasingly brutal, as an image of a crucified 17-year-old boy made its way around social media.
Scientists believe that the country of origin for HIV/AIDS came from a part of Africa in the 1920s. Now, people who have the disease are living longer.
