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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday a weak yen, as a whole, has a positive effect on Japan's economy if the currency's move reflects economic and market fundamentals.
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.
