Related media Travel deals BANGKOK - (AP) -- Hong Kong stocks fell further Friday as pro-democracy protests entered a second week but most other Asian markets rose ahead of reports on U.S. employment and factory orders. KEEPING SCORE: Hong Kong's Hang Seng index plunged 1.4 percent to 22,609.36...
A "staggering array" of human rights abuses has been committed by Islamic State (IS) militants and associated armed groups over a nine-week period in Iraq, the UN says. It says that abuses committed between 6 July to 10 September may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. Iraqi...
Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance. The Dallas Ebola case,...
Sudan and South Sudan are among the most heavily armed countries in the world. The Niles investigates how this came about and the consequences of spiraling bloodshed ...
A leading charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply. Save the Children said there were 765 new cases of Ebola reported in the West African state last week, while there are only 327 beds in the country. Earlier,...
The first Ebola case in the U.S was diagnosed on Tuesday and sent stocks sliding on Wednesday. PIctured here is the hospital in which the Ebola patient is in isolation. (AP Photo/The Dallas...