U.S. authorities on Tuesday have broadened the pool of health care workers getting monitored for Ebola at a hospital in the city of Dallas in northeastern Texas after one of them tested positive for the deadly disease.
Indian stocks plunged as much as 150 points in trade on Monday, led by losses in ITC, ICICI Bank, L& T and Tata Motors Ltd.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has gave field guidance to a newly built residential district, the official KCNA news agency reported Tuesday, his first public appearance in about 40 days.
A Hungarian film week opened in Budapest on Monday with the screening of a century old film called "The Exile" (A tolonc).
Seabed mining around New Zealand's volcanic exclusive economic zone (EEZ) areas could destroy unique underwater ecosystems and have profound effects on sea life, a leading marine biologist warned Monday.
The Chinese mainland has suspended importing cooking oil products made by a Taiwan company involved in a food safety scandal.
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans on Thursday apologized for remarks in a talk show on Wednesday in which he declared that a victim of the MH17 in eastern Ukraine was found with an oxygen mask.
Infants whose mothers take vitamin D supplements during pregnancy and newborns who also take it are less likely to get respiratory infections, according to research announced by the University of Auckland Thursday.
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who has been infected with the Ebola virus could have become infected after accidentally brushing her face with a glove as she was taking off her isolation suit.
A candlelight vigil was held early Wednesday morning as the body of 58-year-old Dao Qiongfen lay in a coffin.
Chief Executive Office of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said on Wednesday evening that there is no requirement for Mr. Leung Chun-ying to declare payments from an Australian company before taking his office as the region's leader.
The one buried at the Amphipolis tomb was a great figure or general in the army of Alexander the Great, Katerina Peristeri, the head archaeologist in the excavation team at the ancient city in northern Greece said Tuesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday confirmed a Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola virus disease.
A 30-year-old mother in the U.S. state of Delaware has been charged with child endangerment and drug possession after her toddler daughter took packets of heroin to her day care center, Delaware State Police said Tuesday.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" the targeted attack against an United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal, Mali, earlier in the day, in which one Senegalese peacekeeper was killed.
An American man has been arrested in Chicago for attempting to travel overseas to join the militant organization Islamic State (IS) fighting in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.
Powerful Typhoon Phanfone which made landfall in central Japan Monday has left at least 4 people dead and 5 missing, local media reported Tuesday.
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