Oct. 18, 2014: A helicopter met up with a cruise ship with a Dallas health care worker aboard who is being monitored for signs of Ebola in order to take a blood sample for testing prior to the ship's arrival Sunday in Galveston.
Catholic gay rights groups say the rejection by bishops of proposals for wider acceptance of gay people, backed by Pope Francis, is "very disappointing".
Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane repulsed a new attempt by Islamic State fighters to cut off the border with Turkey Saturday as troops battled the jihadists in neighbouring Iraq.
DALLAS - Trying to calm an increasingly alarmed public, President Obama on Saturday urged Americans to keep the Texas Ebola cases “in perspective,” as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepared new guidelines for health care workers ...
Obama urges Americans not to give in to hysteria over Ebola With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States but dozens of people being monitored in case they contract the illness, President… Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday not to give in to "hysteria" about the spread of the virus.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer and model Joanne Borgella, who competed on "American Idol" in 2008, died on Saturday at age 32 after a battle with cancer, her family said on her Facebook page.
Hurricane Gonzalo is expected to track southeast of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula on Sunday morning, although it will dump a fair bit of rain over the island.
Rainy days here in the Adirondacks of NY. We're supposed to get a Nor'easter later this week, Weds-Thurs. Think it might be coming from that hurricane that just slammed Bermuda. I started wond…ering why people populate an island that gets slammed repeatedly every year during hurricane season. How can that island afford to keep rebuilding???
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has sent coastguard vessels to disputed waters in the East China Sea after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered Beijing by sending a ritual offering to a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead from Japan's wars.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong police clashed with protesters early Sunday, with the government saying 20 people were injured in a fourth night of violence after nearly three weeks of largely peaceful pro-democracy rallies.
ABUJA, Nigeri - There's no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about news of a cease-fire with the Islamic extremists who abducted their daughters six months ago.
Hurricaneana A county bus is stranded on Highway 11 in Naalehu, Hawaii where heavy rains from Hurricane Ana flooded the road on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Morgan Stanley reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings on Friday. Here are five key things that are important to investors: Equity trading a standout: The bank reported higher revenues from equity trading than its ...
Dealers have tolerated and learned to cooperate with online car shopping services. But a manufacturer who bypasses the traditional franchise system to sell directly is a threat.
The October 16 Apple Keynote event was foreshadowed by hypes and leaks tirelessly circulating the net. Like Us on Facebook. For one it introduced some of the most leapfrogging technology in the digital world.
Apple has started the process of unifying the its desktop and mobile computing devices with the release of OS X Yosemite. Of course you may not be able to run your iPhone apps on your Mac for now but this will soon become a reality.
OS X Yosemite Download Via Torrent + Mac App Store OS X Yosemite Downloading .... Are you ready for next level of OS X? Apple has been released new OS X 10.10 Yosemite for all, who want new OS for …his Mac. If you have iMac (Mid 2007 or newer), MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer), Ma...
Rick Rubin heads back to where Def Jam Records was born, his New York University dorm room. It's been nearly 30 years since Def Jam Records founder and record producer Rick Rubin was last at the location of where it all started for him.
Ohio State is on an historic roll and quarterback J.T. Barrett is leading the way. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ohio State stays on a roll, steamrolls Rutgers Ohio State is on an historic roll and quarterback J.T.
Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist scored power-play goals 55 seconds apart in the second period, and the Pittsburgh Penguins handed the visiting Islanders their first loss of the season, 3-1, on Saturday night.
No. 7 Alabama beat No. 21 Texas A&M 59-0. It was an incredibly different game from the ones we've seen over the last couple seasons, with the Aggies winning two years ago 29-24, and the Crimson Tide winning last year 49-42.
EUGENE, Ore. -- Freshman Royce Freeman ran for 169 yards and four touchdowns and No. 9 Oregon extended its winning streak over Washington to 11 straight games with a 45-20 victory on Saturday night.
One of the Saturn's smaller ice moons, Mimas, was never been a centre of attraction for the scientists until the latest research revealing some special secret of the moon emerged.
Saturn's icy moon Mimas may hide a 'fossil' core or an ocean. A new study focused on the interior of Mimas suggests its cratered surface hides one of two intriguing possibilities: Either… the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the satellite contains a liquid water ocean: http://buff.ly/1zecS9Q
Scientists should get a grandstand view of a comet on Sunday when it makes a dramatic flyby of Mars. The icy object, known as Siding Spring, will miss the Red Planet by what is - in astronomical terms - just a hair's breadth, or 139,500km (87,000 miles).
On Oct. 19, Comet Siding Spring will pass within 88,000 miles of Mars – just one third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon! Traveling at 33 miles per second and weighing as much as a small moun…tain, the comet hails from the outer fringes of our solar system, originating in a region of icy debris known as the Oort cloud. Watch how we're observing the event.
Enlarge Image Request to buy this photo Jarod Opperman | The New York Times Allen Mann, 41, a missionary who went to Liberia on a church trip, is spending three weeks under a self-imposed quarantine with his wife and four children in their home in ...
Ebola: The Fine Line Between Medical Martial Law And Common Sensehttp://b4in.org/iA9g A man in Texas who is thought to be infected with Ebola may be taken into custody against his will. Is this the beginning of medica…l martial law, or is this a common sense practice to prevent the spread of a deadly disease? Thus far, due to medical privacy laws, the man is unnamed. Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s Courthouse News Service: Texas wants a second patient “reaso...
Ebola fears strike Dallas again Dallas local media reported a woman fell ill at a Dallas transit station. Those reports were quickly downplayed by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, who said the woman was n…ot on any Ebola watchlist. The woman had a low-grade fever at a station in Northeast Dallas, WFAA-Channel 8 said, quoting a DART spokesman. DART closed White Rock Station, and Dallas hazardous materials teams were dispatched there, it said.
The Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola while treating a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital have been moved from the building, but patients are still steering clear of the once-bustling hospital.
Ebola: The Fine Line Between Medical Martial Law And Common Sensehttp://b4in.org/iA9g A man in Texas who is thought to be infected with Ebola may be taken into custody against his will. Is this the beginning of medica…l martial law, or is this a common sense practice to prevent the spread of a deadly disease? Thus far, due to medical privacy laws, the man is unnamed. Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s Courthouse News Service: Texas wants a second patient “reaso...
