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The National Institutes of Health has started a clinical trial for an investigational vaccine that can prevent Zika infections.

The crash landing of Emirates flight 521 is not the first accident the airline has had to deal with in its history.

Learn concrete facts about the Zika virus, including symptoms, treatment and how the mosquito-borne infection is transmitted.

With less than two months before the Sept. 30 deadline, the U.S. is quietly on its way to accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees.

The new book, billed as the eighth in the Harry Potter franchise, hit bookshelves at 12:01 a.m. EDT Sunday.

Cities in the world’s most populous country have grown at explosive rates and there have been reports of traffic being held up for days.

Over 400 suspected drug dealers and others have been killed by the police since Rodrigo Duterte took over as president of the Asian country in June.

Emirates Airline said there were 275 passengers and crew aboard the plane, a Boeing 777-300.

The year was the warmest on record, surpassing 2014 by 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an annual NOAA report that summarizes global climate behavior.

The bridge on the Mumbai-Goa highway reportedly buckled under the force of a swollen river.

An international team of researchers have discovered a large area at the center of the Milky Way that is completely devoid of pulsating stars.

The finding could impact other Wall Street firms as the U.S. investigation into the Malaysian state fund scandal expands.

The latest launches come just two weeks after the isolated country fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast in an apparent show of force.

Researchers said that wealthier neighborhoods are more biologically diverse as a result of the different kinds of plants in gardens and hence home to a variety of birds, bats, lizards and bugs.

Joshua Wong, who rose to fame for forcing the Hong Kong government to shelve a pro-China education scheme in schools, appears in a video with the caption, “American-led Western power.”

Will opposition parties chip away at the ANC's dominance? Everything you need to know about South Africa's municipal elections.

A beat-keeping sea lion sheds insight about how human rhythm came to be.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have never come face to face...yet.

David Booth, the president of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, told the Australian he thinks the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 should continue.

Researchers find that a bacteria in sea ice can turn a pollutant into a neurotoxin.

The church commission will also examine early church history to understand the historic role women have played.

According to a new study, odds are that we — Earthlings — popped into existence a tad bit early. Life elsewhere, it suggests, may be yet to emerge.

Some fish have begun to adapt to the increasing acidification of oceans by permanently setting their body defenses at night-time levels.

The 11 GB data dump by the ATLAS collaboration at CERN marks the first open release of proton-proton collision data at 8 TeV.

Finance Minister Andrej Babis, the country's second-richest man, founded a political movement that stormed to power in 2013.

The proposed new rules on Chinese NGOs come amid a broad crackdown by President Xi Jinping on civil society, which critics say is meant to quash dissent.

A new study credits DNA’s dynamic nature with making it the main repository of genetic information.

The study showed that the genes involved in neuron development in the brain correspond to the ones causing major depressive disorder among people of European ancestry.

Monday’s announcement came after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last week hailed the improvement of an air defense system in the country’s northwest.