Washington • A team of about 20 U.S. troops and aid workers who landed Wednesday on Iraq's Mount Sinjar determined that a rescue operation of besieged minorities stranded there is probably unnecessary, the Pentagon said. "There are far fewer" refugees ...

A look back at the life of Lauren Bacall - the cool, sultry-voiced icon of Hollywood's golden age of cinema who died at age 89. WSJ's Mark Kelly reports (Image: Everett Collection). Though known world-wide as one of the last of the grande dames of ...

Lahore: Wishing his countrymen on the occasion of the 68th Independence Day, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday night asked the people of Pakistan to embrace themselves for the 'Azadi March', which according to him ...

A billboard promoting the washing of hands to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus is seen in Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: Jonathan Paye-Layleh. Monrovia - A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs arrived by plane in Liberia on Wednesday to treat two ...

(JTA) — Palestinian leaders announced a five-day extension of the cease fire between Israel and Gaza shortly after midnight on Thursday even as an exchange of rockets and missiles raised questions as to whether the truce could hold. Shortly before the ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 29: Robin Williams attends the CW, CBS And Showtime 2013 Summer TCA Party on July 29, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) | Jason Kempin via Getty Images. Share · Tweet. Email.

AUGUST is a tragic month in Brazilian presidential politics. Sixty years ago Getúlio Vargas, a populist dictator turned democrat, committed suicide while in office. In 1976 Jucelino Kubitschek, who had built Brasília, the country's Utopian capital, was killed in a ...

Sierra Leone's Presidential Youth Aide in the Office of the President, Bai Mamoud Bangura (in photo) has sent a strong challenge to all young people in the country to be vigilant enough to fight against the Ebola virus that is currently ravaging the lives of ...

Founder of Disable International Sierra Leone, Imambay Kadie Kamara, has joined the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Madam Kamara has promised to ship medical items including antiseptics, gloves, wipes, hand sanitizers, Dettol, ...

The plane had two pilots, two advisors, a photographer and a videographer aboard. All of them died. By AFP. Published: August 14, 2014. Tweet · Share this article Print this page Email. Aeronautic experts stand next to part of the wreckage of the Cessna ...

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As Canada prepares to ship out as many as 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine, it is also preparing to hand off to international medical experts the gut-wrenching decisions about who in West Africa will receive an injection that could protect against ...

Aug 13, 2014: Pope Francis is welcomed by two hostesses as he boards a plane to South Korea, at Rome's Fiumicino international airport. (AP). SEOUL, South Korea – Pope Francis arrived Thursday in South Korea on the first papal visit to the Asian nation in ...

The plans were announced alongside €500,000 in funding support for charities working with some of the most vulnerable casualties of the conflict. A spokesman for the Department of Justice said the decision to accept refugees from Iraq had only just been ...

Angus Houston: 'It's vital we go back when the environment becomes much more permissive.' Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP. No victims' remains were found at the MH17 crash site in the three days before Australian investigators pulled out of the area, ...

Scientists have discovered how the Ebola virus disables the body's immune response, in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines. Share. Go To. Comments. Researchers from American institutions found that Ebola carries a ...

Scientists have discovered how the Ebola virus disables the body's immune response, in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines. Share. Go To. Comments. Researchers from American institutions found that Ebola carries a ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP): Hollywood actor-director Ben Affleck has said he was “heartbroken” by the apparent suicide of his “Good Will Hunting” co-star Robin Williams. Williams, 63, was found dead with a belt around his neck Monday at his home outside San ...

Lauren Bacall, one of the last movie icons of Hollywood's golden age, has died. She was 89 years old. Her Hollywood career spanned seven decades, with a memorable debut aged 19 opposite her future husband, Humphrey Bogart, in To Have and Have ...

Lauren Bacall, one of the last movie icons of Hollywood's golden age, has died. She was 89 years old. Her Hollywood career spanned seven decades, with a memorable debut aged 19 opposite her future husband, Humphrey Bogart, in To Have and Have ...