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The World Bank announces that it is allocating $200m in emergency assistance to help West African countries contain the Ebola outbreak.

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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has offered air support to help the Kurdish military battle the extremist group, Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, after the Sunni milita...

Mount Sinai hospital in Manhattan says it's quarantined a patient for possible Ebola symptoms. Officials there say the man, who had recently been to West Africa where Ebola is spreading, arrived at their emergency room i...

With over two million applicants a year, it seems like everyone wants to work at the search giant. Is it because it was crowned the Happiest Company in America? In 2011, CareerBliss.com ranked Google #1 after more than 1...

Grammy-winning folk duo the Civil Wars is breaking up. For good, they say.

Israel will withdraw all its ground forces from the Gaza Strip before the beginning of a 72-hour Egypt-mediated ceasefire with Hamas on Tuesday, according to media reports.

Israeli forces have left the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced, following the start of a planned cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

Yoshiki Sasai co-wrote papers on stap cells that were published in journal Nature but later withdrawn amid claims of fakery A senior Japanese scientist embroiled in a stem-cell research scandal has been found dead in an ...

Investigation by AP news agency finds US aid programme used an an HIV-prevention workshop for political purposes.

Video footage released by Amnesty International reveals the Nigerian military's abuse towards civilians in their fight against the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram

Global rights regulator Amnesty International accused Nigeria's military and its civilian militia of extensive "human rights violations" in their fight against Boko Haram. Amnesty collected testimonies from witnesses, im...

A woman charged in a Joliet double murder asked after her arrest how much time she would get for accessory to murder, a police officer testified today.

Everyone's at least heard of the Roman Empire. But have you ever looked closely at a map of it? Before the internet age, that took some digging. But these days, we have not just an ordinary map, but a high-quality zoomab...

Another historic Winnetka home is one step closer to demolition after officials declined on Monday to delay a proposed tear-down.

The security environment around Japan has become "increasingly severe" amid tensions with China and concern over North Korea, a white paper says.

The Sunni militants have targeted minority communities in areas they have conquered

Kevin Garratt and Julia Dawn Garratt, who run Peters Coffee House on North Korean border, investigated over state secrets China is investigating two Canadians who ran a coffee shop on the Chinese border with North Korea ...

The BBC's Steven Rosenberg reports from Russia's border with Ukraine on the 438 Ukrainian soldiers who have retreated to Russia because they are ''under intense pressure''.

An additional $225 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars will be allocated for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system as a result of legislation signed by President Barack Obama Monday, the White House said. Giving money t...

As the Ukrainian military warns of plans to assault this rebel-controlled city, separatist militants are thinning on the streets and their leaders are canceling public appearances.

Owen Hatherley on Englands Dreaming by Jon Savage, the book that compelled him to move to London to seek out its appalling and vertiginously exciting high-rises At some point in Jon Savages Englands Dreaming: Sex Pistols...