The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000, according to the Congolese government.

North Korea will convene a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) next month for an interim review of state and party policies for this year, state media reported Monday.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Poet/philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1803 -- YMCA leader/Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Mott in 1865 -- Aircraft designer ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tamped down expectations Monday on progress made toward opening the Strat of Hormuz after signally a day earlier that he might have "good news" within hours.

A World Surfing League event was temporarily suspended on Monday after a photographer in the water suffered an animal bite to his foot.

Samsung Electronics Co. topped the smartphone markets in Central and South America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in the first quarter, industry data showed Monday.

The hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship that gained worldwide attention earlier this month is "stable for now," according to the WHO.

The United States blamed the collapse of a U.N. nuclear nonproliferation conference on what it called some countries' inability to take Iran's threat to global nonproliferation seriously.

Iran's national soccer team will make its World Cup base in Tijuana, Mexico, instead of Arizona after FIFA approved its ...

On this date in history: In 1787, with George Washington presiding, the first regular session of the Constitutional Convention, which drew up the Constitution of the United States, convened at ...

A Florida judge granted prosecutors' request for a subpoena of Tiger Woods' prescription drug records at a hearing Tuesday in Stuart, Fla. Tiger Woods' attorney cited an "intrusion" of privacy in ...

Nineteen people were injured Sunday during a stampede that broke out during a popular motorcycle rally in Atlantic Beach, S.C ...