Bumbasor/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MONROVIA, Liberia) — An American freelance journalist working in Monrovia, Liberia, has tested positive for Ebola, according to NBC News, which hired him as a cameraman earlier this week. Ashoka Mukpo came down with symptoms on Wednesday,
Hope Milam/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BAGHDAD, Iraq) — U.S. Central Command confirmed 11 more airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Thursday. Four strikes in Syria, launched by forces from the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates, destroyed an ISIS checkpoint and
Michael Fitzsimmons/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MANAMA, Bahrain) — The search for a U.S. Marine Corps aircrew member was called off on Thursday even though he was not located after bailing out of an aircraft in the North Arabian Gulf. The U.S.
semakokal/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DONETSK, Ukraine) — A Red Cross worker was killed Thursday in Ukraine when a shell landed near the organization’s office in the city of Donetsk. The victim, identified in a Red Cross news release as Laurent DuPasquier,
MatthewBrosseau/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Afghan security forces continued this year to sustain high rates of casualties, with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan estimating that as many as 7,000 to 9,000 Afghan security forces were killed or injured
ABC News(HONG KONG) — Tens of thousands of people continued to take part in the Occupy Hong Kong movement Thursday, protesting in “protest square.” Protesters are calling for democracy and change in Beijing’s political reform plans. Police
Hemera/Thinkstock(MONROVIA, Liberia) — The Ebola patient being held in a Texas isolation unit was a good neighbor who helped carry a pregnant woman who was convulsing and vomiting blood to an Ebola ward and then home again
JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince William and Duchess Kate have taken legal action against a photographer who they say is “harassing” their 1-year-old son, Prince George, and his nanny. The new “legal steps” were spurred by an
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW DELHI) — President Obama’s doing it. Indian celebrities are doing it. And so are India’s Twitter users. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a campaign to improve sanitation and hygiene in the country. Twitter
NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)(NEW YORK) — Remember when Pluto was a planet, then relegated to a “dwarf planet” in 2006? Last month, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics hosted a debate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where three
