Kabul police chief resigns following several foreign deaths by Taliban attacks Kabul's police chief resigned Sunday after a Taliban attack killed four foreign workers at their agency's office.
Cuban health worker wants to return to West Africa after being cured of Ebola A Cuban doctor who was treated in Geneva after contracting the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone last month said he intends on returning to the West African country.
Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept. 26. Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept.
Three years ago, a number of deaths in small villages near the Indian capital of New Delhi appeared to be linked but only recently has the cause been determined: mercury.
After a year of negotiations with the Obama administration, France has agreed to pay reparations to American survivors of the Holocaust who were deported to Nazi death camps in French trains.
Under sharp criticism over the manner in which he dealt with protests initiated around the 43 missing students from a teachers college in Guerrero, Mexico, Mexico City's police chief, Jesus Rodriguez Almeida, has stepped down from his position.
Toys and merchandise related to the Disney film “Frozen” are topping many Christmas wish lists this year, and parents around the world are clamoring to get the hottest gifts for their little ones.
Tens of thousands of people fled the coastal villages in the central Philippines on Friday as typhoon Hagupit came down on the eastern coasts of the island nation. Hagupit, known locally as Ruby, is due to fully land Saturday evening with gusts of up to 143 mph.
Puerto Rico is facing an epidemic with the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya infecting over 10,000 people in the nation, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
In Peru police have arrested a 22-year-old Mexican man named Giussepe Tombolan for attempting to smuggle about 6.6 pounds of cocaine back to his home country inside the bellies of two St. Bernard dogs named Bombon and Lola.
The Instituto de Visión in Bogotá, Colombia, whose artists are participating in Art Basel Miami Beach this year, will revisit art history and take part in the Nova and Film sections for the first time.
At least 19 people have been killed in the Chechen capital of Grozny as Russian security forces battled with separatist militants. The fighting, during which troops stormed two buildings, including a school, "punctured the patina of stability" Moscow aims to portray in the North Caucasus republic, the news service noted.
A North Korean diplomat on Wednesday firmly denied that his country launched a massive cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. The attack crippled the company's computer network and may be linked to the appearance of five unreleased movies on pirating websites.
