Reuters

Liberia is the country hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic and has recorded more than 3,000 deaths.

In Pisgat Ze'ev and Neve Yaacov northeast of Jerusalem's Old City, 1 percent to 2 percent of residents are Israeli Arab or Palestinian.

Human traffickers often use unseaworthy boats to smuggle African migrants to Yemen.

Letif Mehsud, a senior Taliban official, was handed over to Pakistan along with three other prisoners.

A state-run television station in Syria says Israel has bombed areas near Damascus' international airport.

"Only the big houses were left standing," says the mayor of a town on the Filipino island of Samar.

The ECB forecasts the eurozone economy will grow just 1 percent in 2015, as opposed to the 1.6 percent it projected three months ago.

Dalian Wanda is looking to raise between $3.20 billion and $3.86 billion in the initial public offering Monday.

Four suspected militants were killed and two injured when a U.S. drone strike hit a house in northwest Pakistan Sunday, Pakistani officials said.

The Stalinist state denied that it carried out the hack, which revealed a trove of internal data, including salaries and social security numbers.

The five former Madoff employees, who were convicted in March, will be sentenced this week in separate legal hearings.

Striking workers in China, and those helping them, have often been harassed, detained and sometimes imprisoned by authorities in the country.

Foreigners interviewed in bustling Times Square Saturday said they were generally sympathetic to the protesters' cause.

Hagupit had weakened to a category 3 storm, two notches below "super typhoon", when it hit land.

Felix Baez, 43, was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat Ebola patients.

The clashes erupted after about 6,000 protesters marched to commemorate the 2008 police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

The IMF will visit Ukraine to discuss a potential $17 billion bailout program.

Despite arrests for disorderly conduct and blocking traffic, Friday night protests were largely peaceful.

The outgoing defense secretary, on an unannounced visit to Kabul, expressed support for the country's fight against the Taliban.

The ex-wife of Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm has appealed a November divorce ruling that awarded her $1 billion, citing 78 alleged errors and missteps that caused a judge to grossly undervalue her stake in one of America's greatest oil fortunes.

Two doctors died of Ebola in Sierra Leone on Friday, a government and a hospital source said, bringing to 10 the number of doctors killed in the country by the virus.

Boehner said he expected the bill to pass next week with some votes from Democrats, just ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline.

The rapid pace of job creation has slowed, but there's a bright spot. Starting salaries rose faster due to staff shortages in many sectors.

A U.S. court had found that Samsung infringed Apple patents and ordered it to pay the iPhone and iPad maker $930 million.

China says its Confucius Institutes promote cultural exchange, but critics say that they promote the political aims of China's rulers.

Expectations of more stimulus from other global central banks was also lifting markets.

ECB President Mario Draghi will present updated forecasts from the bank's staff for growth in output as well as inflation.

Best Buy has struggled to fend off Chinese rivals while other U.S. firms also have complained about the challenges of operating in the country.

Toyota said it would recall 185,000 vehicles across 19 models including the Corolla and Alphard in Japan, and 5,000 in China.