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.
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.
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.
In an unforeseen move, Pope Francis has demoted American Cardinal Raymond Burke after he spoke out against the pope's attempts to reform the Catholic Church's stance on homosexual people, divorce and contraception. The move, however, was not enough to prevent conservative bishops from removing the gay-friendly language from synod's final statement.
Boko Haram, the Islamic extremists who threatened to topple towns across Nigeria in order to establish their own rule and are responsible for the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls in March this year, agreed to a ceasefire and to release the girls Friday.
Argentine officials have announced the discovery of a brutally beaten teen body in an unmarked grave, five years after the the teen was reported missing.
The war in Syria and Iraq may be intensifying if reports that former Iraqi pilots are training ISIL to fly captured Syrian military planes are proven true.
