International

(CNN) -- The Ebola outbreak "continues to accelerate" in West Africa and has killed 1,552 people so far, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The total number of cases stands at 3,069, with 40% occurring in the past three weeks.…

MIAMI, Florida (AFP) — Strengthening Hurricane Cristobal killed at least four people in the Caribbean and then trained its deadly sights Tuesday on the holiday paradise of Bermuda, officials and meteorologists said. The storm dumped…

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has made a call for peace following one-to-one talks in Belarus with Russia's President Vladimir Putin over the conflict wracking eastern Ukraine. "Our main goal is peace. We…

DALLAS (AP) — Hackers attacked Sony's PlayStation Network and apparently disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane. American cut short the Sony…

(CNN) -- Surprise, mobility and the merciless treatment of opponents: the blueprint of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq as it has gobbled up territory in both Syria and Iraq over the past few months. But as its adversaries regroup, ISIS…

HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP) -- The Coast Guard says four people have been found dead off the South Florida coast. Officials say two males were found floating in the water around 10:00 am Sunday off Hollywood. The Coast Guard responded and…

LONDON (AP) -- Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, has died. He was 90. The actor's son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died…

Washington DC (JIS) -- Jamaicans living overseas have remitted US $16 billion to the island over the past 10 years. The figure was disclosed by Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Arnaldo Brown, while…

New Delhi, India (AFP) - India police have arrested the alleged kingpin of a trafficking racket who sold hundreds of poor tribal girls for domestic slavery in the country's capital, an officer said Thursday. Police accused Baba Bamdev of…

Lyon, France (AFP) -- A four-month-old baby boy is in hospital after a circus camel bit him on the head, French police said on Thursday. The incident happened on Saturday as the baby boy and his mother visited the circus in the…

(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…