"The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday to raise slightly over $174 million to support refugees who have fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon to escape northern Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist …
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"Health officials closed a dozen plastic surgery clinics in Tijuana, a border city in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, the Federal Commission for Health Risks Oversight, or Cofepris, …
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"The MIT team's hope is to 3D print body armor that can move with the body where needed. Their inspiration was the scales that cover most fish, which range in size depending on what part of the fish …
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"The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus. One UN official described the situation for the 18,000 refugees there as 'beyond …
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"Ebola has struck again in the district where the epidemic originated in Sierra Leone, dashing hopes of a recovery after more than three months during which no cases had been reported. The ministry …
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"An explosion has ripped through a chemical plant in south-eastern China's Fujian province, sparking a major fire. The blast occurred on Monday evening at the plant in Zhangzhou. State news agency …
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"Up to 80,000 people in Britain could die in a single outbreak of an infection due to a new generation of superbugs, according to an official Government forecast. In total, some 200,000 people could …
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"But now a punishing drought — and the unprecedented measures the state announced last week to compel people to reduce water consumption — is forcing a reconsideration of whether the aspiration of …
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"A large study of nearly 4 million U.S. service members and veterans found that deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan is not associated with an increased risk of suicide. Appearing in JAMA Psychiatry …
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"California's ongoing drought isn't letting up. As a result, Governor Edmund Brown announced today that California will enforce statewide water restrictions for the first time in the state's history. …
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