West African leaders agreed on Friday to take stronger measures to try to bring the worst outbreak of Ebola under cont…

An American aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia arrived in the United States from West Af…

Police in China have detained six executives of a meat supply company at the center of the latest food safety scare to…

Saudi Arabia reported 10 confirmed new cases of a deadly respiratory disease during Islam's fasting month of Ramad…

The bodies of two men previously showing symptoms of Ebola lay in the streets of Monrovia for four days before being c…

Health workers turned up in Monrovia's Clara Town district on Sunday to remove two bodies of possible victims of t…

An American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatmen…

The second American aid worker who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa was expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tues…

JinkoSolar Holding Co must face a shareholder lawsuit accusing the Chinese solar panel maker of concealing that one of…

Millions of jellyfish-like creatures have washed up on beaches along the U.S. West Coast over the past month, giving t…

Southwest Airlines and SeaWorld said on Thursday they are ending a longtime marketing partnership, as the airline face…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday extended the deadline for the third time for refiners to show com…

Tropical Storm Bertha, the second named storm of the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season, has formed east of the southern L…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck 9 miles (14 km) southeast of the Algerian capital Algiers on Friday, the United Stat…

The Philippines will spend 170 billion pesos ($3.89 billion) to rehouse some 200,000 families displaced by last year&#…

Earthquakes of magnitude 6.2 and 6.1 struck Myanmar and India's Andaman islands on Thursday, the U.S. Geological S…

At least six people died after a magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit southeast of the Algerian capital on Friday, shaking bui…

Hopes of finding survivors in India from a landslide that swallowed up more than 100 people faded on Friday as rescuer…

In normally drought-stricken New Mexico, near-historic levels of monsoon rains this month caused a sharp rise in flash…

Wildlife trappers in Washington state searched on Friday for a river otter blamed for a rare attack on humans that sen…

Florida's ban on importing invasive lionfish, the first of its kind in the nation, goes into effect on Friday as w…

Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether a state ferry killed a 30-foot (9-meter), 25-ton (22.6-tonne) humpback…

A variety of sunflower found in some Southern states and two other rare plants were designated on Friday as endangered…

Authorities in eastern India began evacuating thousands of villagers on Saturday after efforts to clear a deadly lands…

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Okinawa island on Sunday, according to the Pacific Tsun…

Rescue teams evacuated over 500 people overnight from the small Bulgarian town of Mizia after torrential rains caused …

A violent downpour caused a flash flood late on Saturday that swept up dozens attending a local summer festival in nor…

As a child, Mohammad Rahmanpour spent his summers swimming in Lake Orumieh in northwestern Iran - then the largest in …

More than 400,000 people in eastern India face the risk of flooding after a landslide that killed at least nine people…

Health authorities tested water for toxins in Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday as some 400,000 people remained without safe dri…

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured …

At least 34 people, including several children, were killed in a stampede at a beachside rap concert celebrating the e…

Australian pop rock group 5 Seconds of Summer scored one of the year's biggest debuts on the weekly Billboard 200 …

Three years ago playwright Laline Paull began to notice bees in her garden in Sussex, southeast England. Her interest …

When Cambridge City Council decided to hold a music festival in the historic English university town back in 1964, few…

Award-winning American filmmaker Robert L. Drew, a pioneer of the cinema vérité documentary style, died on Wednesday i…

Kids have been sleeping overnight in museums across the country for years, dozing off among live sharks and dinosaur b…

When Cambridge City Council decided to hold a music festival in the historic English university town back in 1964, few…