Chinese companies, communities and students in the United Kingdom welcomed the results of the Scottish referendum after voters rejected a breakup of the UK.
Sierra Leone launched a controversial three-day national shutdown on Friday to contain the deadly spread of the Ebola virus, as the UN Security Council declared the deadly outbreak a threat to world peace.
The navy of the Republic of Korea fired warning shots on Friday to end a brief incursion by a patrol boat from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the sensitive maritime border, Seoul's defense ministry said.
A healthy woman became the first volunteer to receive a new vaccine against the Ebola virus on Wednesday in a trial at the University of Oxford.
President Xi Jinping announced in New Delhi on Thursday an aid package of 200 million yuan (about $32.54 million) for West African countries to combat Ebola. The nations include Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Using artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their bodies handle sugar, according to a preliminary study carried out mostly on mice.
The Scottish people began voting on Thursday in an independence referendum that will decide the fate of the United Kingdom.
Police said they thwarted a plot to carry out beheadings in Australia by supporters of the radical Islamic State group by detaining 15 people and raiding more than a dozen properties across Sydney on Thursday.
British Muslim leaders have made a plea for the safety of a British hostage threatened with beheading by Islamic State extremists in Syria.
Thailand's junta chief apologized on Thursday for suggesting tourists in bikinis could be more vulnerable to attack, comments that caused an international outcry following the brutal murder of two British vacationers.
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