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The United States is one of just a handful of nations where maternal mortality actually rose over the last decade

Michigan teacher and Afghanistan veteran Adam Neuman thought he had escaped the clutches of the local union after he withdrew his membership before the new school year, but he was shocked to find that they still had thei...

The Coast Guard says it has retrieved a blood sample from a Dallas health care worker who is aboard a cruise ship and being monitored for signs of Ebola.

CANADENSIS, Pa. -- A rifle-toting man with a mud-covered face who was spotted in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains is believed to be the suspect who has spent more than five weeks...

What role does wild animal meat play in the Ebola outbreak?

Gunmen kill 8 abducted poultry workers in insurgency-hit part of southwest Pakistan

Rescue teams in Nepal say they are making a final search for survivors on a trekking route that was hit by a storm earlier this week, killing 39 people.

Islamic State militants have released sickening images of the public crucifixion and murder of a teenage boy. The barbaric punishment took place over three days in the central square of the extremists' de facto capital R...

The Ebola virus may be becoming even more contagious as the West Africa outbreak continues, experts fear. Doctors in the U.S. and U.K. have warned that the virus appears to be becoming more contagious and more they are f...

They first met at the Alternative Miss World in the 70s. Now Zandra Rhodes and Andrew Logan share a passion for art, travel and outrageous fashion My friend the painter Duggie Fields took me to Andrews very first Alterna...

As Western nations called for an end to violence in Libya, Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said his forces are ready to take back control of the capital Tripoli and Benghazi, which are in the hands of Islamist militants...

Cuba's former President Fidel Castro says his country will send almost 300 extra doctors and nurses to Africa.

Government says 20 people wounded overnight after demonstrators storm barricades and clash with police.

Remembered as a man whose willingness to help others might have led to his death, family and friends of Thomas Eric Duncan gathered Saturday at a North Carolina Baptist church to bid farewell to the Liberian national bel...

Pope Francis is allowing the endangered Sistine Chapel to be rented out for a corporate event, with the proceeds to benefit the needy -- while at the same time cracking down on visitors to the world's most famous church.

Take no chances. Leave no stone unturned. Fueled by Ebola fears, these common axioms are driving policy and action -- at times to hefty measures.

A Russian container ship is once again drifting powerless with hundreds of tons of fuel on board after becoming detached from a tugboat.

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Health officials in Ohio are monitoring more than 100 people following the visit by a Dallas nurse who tested positive for Ebola shortly after returning to Texas from the Cleveland area.

The brains of gamblers appear to be different from normal, healthy brains, suggests new research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress in Berlin. Pathological gambling is a difficult condi...

A murder at a New Mexico zoo has taken the life of a Tasmanian devil, an endangered species threatened with extinction.

Fluffy sheets, oodles of pillows -- if we could sleep in hotel beds all the time, we totally would. So we did a little digging, and it turns out there are indeed tricks -- even a few subconscious ones -- that will morph ...