Wild explanations for the deadly viral epidemic are as rampant as the disease itself.
A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 28 others on Sunday outside a Shi'ite Muslim mosque ...
Germany's intelligence service believes flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels using a ...
20 minutes ago China is seeking the extradition and seizure of assets of corrupt officials who have fled to ...
An attack on a farmers market in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang has reportedly left at ...
54 minutes ago Australia has reached an agreement with Iraq for its special forces to support Iraqi forces in ...
Pope Francis on Sunday beatified Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978 after shepherding the church ...
Sweden is investigating the possibility of "foreign underwater activity" in its waters.
Authorities were searching the sea near the southern Thai tourist island of Phuket on Sunday night ...
A cruise ship carrying a lab worker suspected of contact with Ebola has returned to Texas, as US ...
A bear in central China has bitten off the arm of a nine-year-old boy who tried to feed it through ...
Maria Scheffer, 13-years-old when she was sent to Auschwitz with her mother and two sisters, has ...
More than a quarter of a century old and the bane of global warming sceptics everywhere, the ...
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Violent clashes erupted in Hong Kong on Sunday for a second night, deepening a sense of impasse.
It was a long way to come to say that nothing was about to happen.
Staff at Healesville Sanctuary are saddened and shocked to hear one of its Tasmanian devils ...
The US President has appealed to Americans to pay attention to facts and not fear in their reaction ...
The search for 43 missing Mexican students has unearthed a multitude of clandestine graves with ...
A closely watched Vatican assembly has ended without consensus on gays and whether to give ...
A top British official charged with overseeing sanctions on suspected financiers of terrorism is ...
Sweden is scouring its waters for "foreign underwater activity" after a radio transmission in ...
Tony Abbott has shown his sceptics he can do business in three of the big four capitals of Asia and ...
Aid agency Oxfam says Ebola could become the "definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation".
A rare northern white rhino has died in Kenya, a wildlife conservancy said on Saturday, leaving ...
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed several people in two attacks on Nigerian villages that ...
The advance of Islamic State forces on the Syrian city of Kobane has stalled, with the militants ...
Indonesian president-elect Joko Widodo sits composed on his last afternoon in the Jakarta ...
Joko Widodo, who on Monday tomorrow will be inaugurated as Indonesia's second directly elected ...