Nebraska hospital: Surgeon with Ebola has died

OMAHA, Nebraska — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska hospital, the...

US, Japan, Australia agree to deepen security ties

Health care push comes to bars, nail salons

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The pitch for health care coverage is being made at nail salons, pizzerias, mosques and even bars. As the second enrollment period under...

Space Agency: Now-silent lander does main tasks

BERLIN — The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet’s surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to...

G-20 leaders reveal details of global growth plan

BRISBANE, Australia — Under pressure to jolt the lethargic world economy back to life, leaders of G-20 nations on Sunday finalized a plan to boost global...

Surgeon with Ebola arrives in US for treatment

OMAHA, Neb. — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Nebraska Saturday for treatment at a biocontainment unit where two other...

West-backed Syria rebels shaken on multiple fronts

BEIRUT — During a key battle in the rugged mountains of a northern province earlier this month, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels collapsed before an assault by al-Qaida...

World Bank: Ebola fund would create incentives

BRISBANE, Australia — A proposed global emergency fund to contain the next Ebola outbreak would also provide an incentive for drug companies to develop vaccines to...

Militants seize hometown of kidnapped schoolgirls

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Islamic extremists in Nigeria have seized Chibok, forcing thousands of people to flee the town where insurgents kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April,...

Aussies take notice after Stephen Harper ‘shirtfronts’ Vladimir Putin

BRISBANE, Australia — Russia’s Vladimir Putin departed the Group of 20 summit earlier than planned on Saturday following some tense encounters with Western leaders, including an...