International

(CNN) -- The number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has climbed to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, but it cited "encouraging signs" from Nigeria and Guinea that positive action can rein in the deadly…

(CNN) -- More violence. More tear gas. No answers. Stun grenades and tear gas canisters arced through the night sky and into crowds of protesters overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, after police said they had been targeted with rocks, Molotov…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Ukrainian soldiers have recovered the bodies of 15 civilians from Monday's attack on a refugee convoy in the eastern Luhansk region, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said Tuesday. Col.…

(CNN) -- Ebola patients fled during an attack at a health care facility in Monrovia, Liberia, on Saturday, Liberian National Police spokesman Sam Collins told CNN on Sunday. All patients who ran away had Ebola, and some chose to stay at…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- One month after Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, government military forces there said they've made advances Sunday against pro-Russian separatists. Ukrainian forces regained control over the strategic…

(CNN) -- Dozens of people have been killed in flooding in northern and eastern India, while the death toll in Nepal has passed 100, government officials in the two countries told CNN. At least 56 people have died in flooding and…

TILBURY, UK (AFP) -- A man was found dead and 34 others still alive in a shipping container on Saturday after staff at a British port heard banging and screaming coming from inside. The men, women and children, all believed to be from the…

(CNN) -- The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, a local leader and residents said Friday. Boko Haram gunmen also…

PARIS, France - (AFP) - A candidate vaccine against the joint disease chikungunya, endemic to Africa and south Asia but moving north- and westward, showed promise by provoking an immune response in human trials, its developers said Friday.…

(CNN) -- The magnitude of the Ebola crisis in West Africa is "vastly" underestimated, the World Health Organization warned this week, as the death toll steadily climbed. Ebola has infected at least 1,975 people in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia…

FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) -- Authorities in a St Louis suburb where an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer have used tear gas to try to disperse protesters after flaming projectiles were thrown from the crowd. Police…

(CNN) -- It's probably one of the more unusual incidents air traffic investigators have looked into, but the good news is that when a pilot's prosthetic arm fell off during landing, no one got hurt. The 46-year-old pilot lost control in…

WARREN, Michigan (AP) — The body of a 100-year-old suburban Detroit woman was found in her flooded condominium basement Tuesday, a day after heavy rain swamped much of the area and stranded motorists on water-clogged streets and freeways.…

FERGUSON, Missouri. (AP) -- Nights of unrest have vied with calls for calm in a St Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was killed by police, while the community is still pressing for answers about the weekend shooting. Hundreds of…

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead at his home in California from suspected suicide, police said Tuesday. A statement from the Marin County Sheriff's Department said the 63-year-old funnyman…