The CDC is monitoring approximately 1,000 people for Ebola after two nurses contacted the Ebola virus from the Liberian man who died on Oct 9. The U.N. health agency declared Nigeria and Senegal Ebola free after no new cases have appeared for 42 days. The U.S. has requested advanced biological labs to ramp up production of the experimental Ebola treatment, ZMapp.
Turkish government previously refused to help Syrian Kurds The Turkish foreign minister said his government is helping Iraqi Kurdish forces reach the Syrian border town of Kobani to join Syrian Kurds who have been fighting Islamic State militants for more than a month.
Several Senate Democrats penned a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about their opposition to the creation of the largest immigrant detention facility in the country.
After months of almost exclusively bad news regarding Ebola, Nigeria has offered a brief respite, as the country has been declared free of the deadly virus.
A man involved in organizing the outdoor concert in South Korea where 16 people died after falling through a ventilation grate was found dead Saturday from an apparent suicide, according to officials.
New dinosaur species found in Venezuela Western Venezuela has just gifted the scientific community with a new discovery, after a 20-year investigation, of a possible ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
ISIS crucifies 17-year-old boy in Raqqa, Syria The atrocities committed by ISIS are increasingly brutal, as an image of a crucified 17-year-old boy made its way around social media.
Scientists believe that the country of origin for HIV/AIDS came from a part of Africa in the 1920s. Now, people who have the disease are living longer.
In an unforeseen move, Pope Francis has demoted American Cardinal Raymond Burke after he spoke out against the pope's attempts to reform the Catholic Church's stance on homosexual people, divorce and contraception. The move, however, was not enough to prevent conservative bishops from removing the gay-friendly language from synod's final statement.
Boko Haram, the Islamic extremists who threatened to topple towns across Nigeria in order to establish their own rule and are responsible for the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls in March this year, agreed to a ceasefire and to release the girls Friday.
Argentine officials have announced the discovery of a brutally beaten teen body in an unmarked grave, five years after the the teen was reported missing.
The war in Syria and Iraq may be intensifying if reports that former Iraqi pilots are training ISIL to fly captured Syrian military planes are proven true.
In a symbolic vote, the British Parliament voted to recognize the Palestinian state in hopes of pressuring the British government of Prime Minister David Cameron into formally recognizing Palestine. Though most of the members of Parliament abstained, the vote was condemned by Israel.
The Nigerian government and Islamist terror group Boko Haram have reached a ceasefire agreement, part of which deal includes the release of over 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.
