Presidents of the three nations suffering from an Ebola outbreak demanded urgent help at a meeting of the IMF and World Bank - they need doctors, nurses and hospital beds. The Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced five US airports will check travelers coming from the three countries by interviewing them and taking their temperature. 150 people from the three countries come into the US daily, and 95 percent through the airports in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC
The family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the US, is speaking out about what they feel was "unfair" and inadequate medical treatment given to their lost relative.
27 Boko Haram captives, including 10 Chinese workers, released by militants in Cameroon Boko Haram released 27 captives Saturday in Cameroon, according to the government, and 10 of those were Chinese workers, BBC reported.
Patients monitored for Ebola virus increased to 16 in Spain The number of patients being monitored for Ebola has increased to 16 in Spain, as of Saturday, in the first outbreak outside of West Africa.
New round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks set for next week A meeting is scheduled next week between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a solution to the six-month conflict over eastern Ukraine.
Paula Kassig has been trying to reach ISIL's leader through social media in an attempt to secure her son's freedom. He will be beheaded if the U.S. government do not acquiesce to ISIL's demands.
In a Wednesday panel discussion at the Cuban Interests Section, experts from both Washington and Havana discussed the benefits of lifting the embargo the United States has Cuba.
Students in Mexico vow radical action if their classmates are not returned alive Classmates of the missing students in Iguala, Mexico -- where a political protest resulting in a series of violent incidents and the disappearance of more than 50 teens -- have vowed radical action if the missing are not returned alive.
More than 15 years after the beginning of the fight for shrinking groundwater supplies between Coca-Cola and farmers in India, the situation continues to worsen with no solution.
In an article published Wednesday by Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, Former Cuban President Fidel Castro tackled various subjects, including NATO, Stephen Hawking and the Big Bang theory.
Ray Cole had been arrested for being gay while vacationing in Morocco, setting off an online campaign for his release. On Tuesday he returned to the UK and was reunited with his family.
Hong Kong protest thins as both sides agree to speak Friday The hundreds of students who crowded the streets of Hong Kong to protest the controlled form of a democracy being perpetuated by China have decreased, but both sides are now ready to talk.
With people in Japan still reeling from the impact of the recent Typhoon Phanfone, weather experts from across the world are warning the residents in the areas hard hit from that storm that they are about to be slammed again, this time by Typhoon Vongfong, a monster storm system that was recently upgraded to super typhoon status.
Burial pits holding the remains of an undetermined number of bodies has been discovered at a hidden gravesite just outside of Iguala, Mexico, where violence erupted last weekend and resulted in the deaths of six individuals and the disappearance of 43 students.
Recent arrests come two weeks after nine were arrested on suspicion of terrorism London's Metropolitan Police arrested four men on Tuesday on suspicion of commissioning or preparing acts of terrorism, just two weeks after police in the United Kingdom arrested nine others on similar charges.
‘21st Century will be lit by LED lamps' Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their discovery of blue light-emitting diodes that catalyzed the development of LED lighting.
The second full lunar eclipse of 2014 will take place early Wednesday morning and for those living in parts of the world where it won’t be visible; thanks to technology the celestial event will be broadcast in real time and made accessible to all.
Two brokers at a Beverly Hills office of Bank of America's Merrill Lynch must collectively return more than $6.6 million in signing bonuses to Barclays Capital for leaving the firm's U.S. broker unit after working only three-and-a-half months, a regulatory panel has ruled.
