Three Virginia police officers were shot, one of them fatally on her first day on the job, when they responded to a domestic incident on Saturday, authorities said.The police officers, from Prince William County in Virginia, were shot at a home they we...
AUSTIN, Texas A south Texas man who bludgeoned and slashed to death a 12-year-old boy, mutilated the corpse and said he drank the blood of his victim is set to be executed on Wednesday at the state's death chamber in Huntsville.Pablo Vasquez, 38, is sc...
(Reuters Health) - Every additional month of paid maternity leave is associated with a 13 percent reduction in infant mortality rates in low-income countries and the developing world, a recent study suggests. That translates into eight infant deaths av...
BAGHDAD Iraq said on Monday it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State.Iraqi authorities "are following up on...
The latest version of Mozilla's web browser is looking to unseat Microsoft Edge as the default browser in Windows 10.
Watch out, Microsoft. Firefox is gunning for its own chunk of the browser space in Windows 10.
Released on Tuesday, Firefox 40 is the l...
BEIRUT/GENEVA A senior official from Syria's main opposition group said on Monday that a fragile international attempt to halt nearly five years of fighting was in danger of total collapse because of attacks by government forces.The cessation of hostil...
SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 Two years after
twin air crashes that left its brand in tatters, Malaysia
Airlines is still a company in limbo.The loss of two Boeing 777s just months apart in 2014
triggered a much needed state bailout for the already
l...
British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L) said on Tuesday Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (IRWD.O) would buy the U.S. marketing rights for its newly approved gout drug for up to $265 million.The deal gives Ironwood the rights to sell the drug, Zurampic, o...
NEW YORK Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation.In a wide-ran...
For six weeks seven-year-old Bethan Westcott-Storer was feeling listless and losing weight, worrying parents Lizzie and Dean. Now aged nine, she's the picture of health, having been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in November 2014, since when she's been...
