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Police investigating after video shows man swearing at and racially abusing a security guard, and challenging him to a fight

(Reuters) - At Fort Campbell in Kentucky, spouses of U.S. soldiers headed to Liberia seem to be lingering just a bit longer than usual after pre-deployment briefings, hungry for information about Ebola.

Jorge Galleguillos, a veteran miner at the San José Mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, was working 2,000 feet below the earth's surface when he saw what he thought was a...

Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, 44, appeared to be recovering from Ebola Saturday after reportedly receiving the experimental treatment ZMapp. Romero, who is the only known person to have contracted the deadly virus outside...

HONG KONG -- Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's embattled Chief Executive said that there is "zero chance" that the demands of pro-democracy protesters being met, in a TV interview broadcast locally Sunday morning.

Revenge porn - when people publish sexually explicit photos of ex-partners without their consent - is to be made a new offence.

The UN special envoy on Ebola David Nabarro tells the BBC he hopes the Ebola outbreak can be brought under control within three months.

Kurdish militiamen are putting up a fierce fight to defend a Syrian town near the border with Turkey but are struggling to repel the Islamic State group, which is advancing...

A Northern California man was arrested Saturday on charges of starting a wildfire that devastated the lumber town of Weed last month, authorities said.

When a patient exhibiting symptoms consistent with Ebola infection on United Airlines Flight 998 landed at Newark Airport last Saturday, the flight crew took immediate action to contain the possibility...

Amtrak train hits 3 people on California coast; 1 killed, 2 injured

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The abrupt cancellation of football season at a New Jersey prep powerhouse signaled something more than locker room hijinks. Now seven teens are facing sex crime charges as this solidly middle-class town and its beloved ...

Police shooting protests continue in St. Louis as demonstrators prepare for widespread arrests

A 10-month-old Louisiana baby survived for three days trapped under the decomposing body of her dead father after he suffered cardiac arrest, authorities said on Saturday.

Screening passengers for Ebola at two UK airports and at Eurostar stations is a "political gesture", a senior consultant says in an email seen by the BBC.

Four days of events planned in St Louis over August 9 shooting of black teenager by white police officer in Ferguson.

The UK "specialist" team has been sent to Irbil to train Kurdish forces in the use of British-supplied arms, the MoD says

US defence chief Chuck Hagel says preventing the Syrian city of Kobani from falling into the hands of IS is proving difficult.

At least 43 people were killed and more than 40 injured in three car-bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi medical sources said Saturday.

Around 5,000 brown recluse spiders forced a family to move from their home worth nearly $500,000.

Two U.S. Airways flights experienced difficulties before landing Saturday night at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, airline spokesman Matt Miller said.