Trick or treat! While youngsters dress up as ghosts and goblins and go door to door for Halloween, grown-ups across the United States are indulging in all things pumpkin spice.
Australian couples seeking surrogate mothers in India are being denied entry to the country following reports that a surrogate twin was left there by an Australian couple wanting just one child.
After weeks of Ebola panic, false alarms and quibbles over quarantine in the United States, health authorities are bracing for a new battle: flu season.
In between going on a bike ride and taking delivery of a pizza, nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend did chores and watched a movie while state officials struggled to reach a compromise in a standoff that has become the nation's most closely watched clash between personal freedom and fear of Ebola.
A survivalist accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured on Thursday by US marshals in an abandoned airplane hangar, ending a seven-week man hunt that had rattled the nerves of are are sidents.
Britain's security services are set to clash with Parliament and the country's powerful press over revelations that police secretly used a controversial law to identify journalists' sources, triggering a wider debate about media freedom in the digital age.
Jihadi fighters from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts from a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore announced his resignation in a statement on Friday and called for a 90-day transition to "free and transparent" elections in the West African country, local media said.
Sweden officially recognized the State of Palestine on Thursday, becoming the first major Western European country to do so.
Palestine urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to demand that Israel immediately reverse plans to build more Jewish settlements.
China urged Israel on Wednesday to be serious in halting all settlement activities immediately and to resume peace talks with Palestine.
Australia on Thursday passed a law criminalizing travel to terror hot spots, a tough counter-terrorism measure aimed at stopping jihadists from going to Iraq and Syria to fight.
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