The latest news and top stories on Irene Khan. A Bangladeshi British lawyer and human rights advocate, she serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom ...

Police are issuing a warning after multiple sightings of what appears to be a great white shark near popular beaches in Scarborough, Maine — leaving locals and vacationers on alert ...

Niger will look to pick up its first win of the tournament when it clashes with South Africa on Friday morning.

The challenges of housing provision in KwaZulu-Natal amid rapid urbanisation, and the government's strategies for upgrading ...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees' personal ...

From mosquitoes to assassin bugs, learn which small creatures rank among the most lethal animals to humans worldwide.

Within a month of a multi-agency task force being launched to target border crime, and an FBI Summer Heat Initiative, another ...

A record-low number of Americans are drinking, according to a new Gallup poll that has been tracking this data since 1939.

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. What might it ...

Dennis “Tink” Bell was just 25 when he fell through a hole in the Antarctic Peninsula and was trapped in a glacier.

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to humans.

An experimental blood test detects early-stage ovarian cancer in patients with vague symptoms that would likely be misdiagnosed using currently available methods, researchers said in a new report.