Traditional West African funerals, at which mourners extensively touch and kiss the dead, are “superspreader” events for transmission of the Ebola virus, says a new stud...
But divisions in church exposed
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis praised retired Pope Benedict XVI as a “great pope” amid the continuing fallout from a meeting of bishops that...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Japan is not exactly Ebola country, but when a high-level delegation from Tokyo arrived in Pyongyang this week, two of the first people they met...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The gunman who shot and killed a soldier in plain daylight then stormed Canada’s Parliament once complained that a Vancouver mosque he atte...
Fears raised in Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario — Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targe...
SYDNEY — A second ship was preparing to join the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean today, as Malaysia’s defense minister expres...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia — Canadian coast guard officials secured a towline to a Russian container ship carrying hundreds of tons of fuel as it drifted without po...
Ceasefire raises hopes of return
ABUJA, Nigeria — There’s no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautio...
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man involved in planning an outdoor pop concert where 16 people were killed after falling through a ventilation grate was found dead ...
Lebanon now in 'eye of storm'
BEIRUT — With all eyes on the Islamic State group’s onslaught in Iraq and Syria, a less conspicuous but potentially just as explosive front ...
