MONROVIA/CONAKRY (Reuters) - West African nations scrambled on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 in Guinea, with people presenting symptoms of the disease reported in neighboring Sierra ...

MONROVIA/CONAKRY (Reuters) - West African nations scrambled on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 in Guinea, with people presenting symptoms of the disease reported in neighboring Sierra ...

MONROVIA/CONAKRY (Reuters) - West African nations scrambled on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 in Guinea, with people presenting symptoms of the disease reported in neighboring Sierra ...

BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it was demanding Malaysia provide all information and evidence about a missing Malaysian jet after the country's prime minister said it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

March 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Apple Inc is in talks with Comcast Corp about a streaming-television service that would use an ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was killed on Sunday in battles with Islamist rebels near the border with Turkey, activists and state media said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Hilal al-Assad, local head of the ...

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea has received confirmation that a mysterious disease that has killed up to 59 people in the West African country, and may have spread to neighboring Sierra Leone, is the hemorrhagic fever Ebola, the government said on ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Positions between Iran and major powers differ widely on some areas but Iranian negotiators seem very committed to reach an agreement on the country's nuclear program, a senior EU official said in an email seen by Reuters on Thursday ...

(Adds Toyota President Akio Toyoda's comments, information on U.S. District Judge hearing, Toyota share move). By Aruna Viswanatha, David Ingram and Ben Klayman. WASHINGTON/DETROIT, March 19 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will pay a record ...

(Updates with Justice Department announcement). March 19 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will pay $1.2 billion to resolve a criminal probe into its handling of consumer complaints over safety issues, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

... ». * Housing starts fall 0.2 percent in February. * Permits rise 7.7 percent, but single permits fall. * Consumer price index up 0.1 percent, but food prices jump. By Lucia Mutikani. WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer inflation was muted in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Celebrated fashion designer L'Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found dead from an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apartment on Monday, police said. Scott, a former model whose slim-fitting ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Astronomers announced on Monday that they had discovered what many consider the holy grail of their field: ripples in the fabric of space-time that are echoes of the massive expansion of the universe that took place just after the Big ...

PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - France deployed hundreds of police in Paris on Monday to enforce the most drastic curbs on car use in 20 years as authorities sought to reduce health-endangering pollution days before town hall elections. Amid concerns of a ...

PORT BLAIR, India, March 14 (Reuters) - Indian aircraft combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily ...

LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia on Friday that it will not seek to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior State Department official said before the ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's navy opened fire on Tuesday on a tanker after it had loaded oil at a rebel-held port in the east of the country, damaging the vessel, a Libyan military spokesman said. Italian vessels were helping the navy secure the tanker which ...

(Updates with landing scheduled for Tuesday, as initially planned). MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) - An American astronaut and two Russians who carried a Sochi Olympic torch into open space are scheduled to return to Earth on Tuesday after 166 days ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League on Sunday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's rejection of Israel's demand for recognition as a Jewish state, as U.S.-backed peace talks approach a deadline next month. The United States want Abbas to ...

ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - International police agency Interpol on Sunday confirmed "at least" two passports recorded as lost or stolen in its database were used by passengers on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight and said it was checking for other ...