The World Health Organization has declared the escalation of polio cases across the globe an international public health emergency.
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Target’s CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.
Th islamic leader of extremist group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” is threatening to sell the 300 kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls into slavery.
It’s now May, which means the summer movie season has officially kicked off. And while some movies have been making money hand over fist in 2014 (Hello “Captain America!”), there have also been a few bombs.
A group of men on their way to the Kentucky Derby for a bachelor party made a gruesome discovery after they pulled their rented RV over in southeastern Minnesota: a body inside the vehicle’s exterior cargo compartment.
A group of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey performers plummeted 25 to 40 feet in a “larger-than-life” circus act, causing critical injury.
It may not feel like summer in England yet, but that isn’t stopping one town from celebrating like it is.
A man convicted of robbery in 2000 but never sent to prison until last year because of a clerical mistake walked free Monday after a judge lauded his “exemplary” behavior during 13 years of freedom.
Firefighters facing another hot and windy forecast worked Monday to battle a large wildfire in central Oklahoma that destroyed at least six homes and left one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control.
A pilot who had thrilled audiences for decades with acrobatic stunts was killed when his vintage biplane crashed upside-down on a runway at a Northern California air show at Travis Air Force Base.
President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and what he called a hard year at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “In 2008 my slogan was, ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, it was control-alt-delete,” Obama joked.
Santa Barbara thought build a $34 million desalination plant two decades ago when California withered in a severe drought. The plant was fired up for only three months and mothballed after a miracle soaking of rain. Now the plant is getting attention again.
Less than a week after dumping their team warmup jerseys at center court in a pregame gesture of defiance against Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers earned a cathartic 126-121 win over the Golden State Warriors and a second-round date with the Oklahoma City Thunder, starting Monday night.
The 17-year-old Minnesota boy outlined his plan in a 180-page journal: kill his family, set a fire to divert first responders, then go to his school with bombs and guns and “kill as many students as he could,” according to court documents.
The father of a 5-year-old boy who was missing for months before his body was found by the side of a highway apologized at his funeral Saturday, saying he wished he could have saved his son.