A deadly amoeba that can destroy brain tissue has been found in the water supply of several towns in southeast Louisiana. The Naegleria fowleri amoeba was found in the water system that serves Reserve, Garyville and Mt Airy, CBSNews quoted the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) as saying. In 2011, a child died after apparently...
When Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected Turkey's new president (10.08.2014) with 52 percent of the vote, it wasn't long until the obligatory, politically correct congratulations from all over Europe trickled in. German ChancellorAngela Merkel stressed Turkey's great importance in a difficult region....
28 August 2014, 5:52 Russia 'Directing Offensive In Ukraine's East' TweetThe United States has claimed that Russia is directing a counter offensive in support of pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine. Separatists have seized control of territory in the east after government forces retreated from the...
(AP) — A third top doctor has died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, a government official said Wednesday, as a leading American health official warned that the outbreak sweeping West Africa would get worse. The disease has killed more than 1,400 people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and...
US stocks ended a quiet Wednesday session little changed, while the S&P 500 made a small advance to another record close. The S&P 500 index tacked on 0.10point, less than 0.1 per cent, to 2,000.12, its 31st record this year. The index closed above 2,000 for the first time Tuesday. The Dow...
Russians hacked J.P. MorganChase and at least one other bank in mid-August immediately after the U.S. levied new sanctions on Moscow, according to an FBI probe. The attack resulted in the theft of gigabytes'...
The jet came down on Elliot’s Knob in a rural area of the conjoined George Washington and Jefferson National Forests with a loud explosion and a pillar of heavy, black smoke. No injuries have been reported but the fate of the pilot remains unknown. Officials lost contact with the F-15 shortly...
Talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine failed to make a significant breakthrough toward ending fighting in east Ukraine as strongman Vladimir Putin played down the...
Any ceasefire only lasts until the moment it is broken - but the latest truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinian militant groups of Gaza has a more solid feel to it than the many others which came and went over the last few weeks. It is not hard to say who lost in this war - the thousands of...
