Nigeria closed all schools until October 13 due to Ebola. The measure is to prevent the deadly disease from spreading. Students were due back on Monday. “All primary and secondary schools in private and public sectors are to remain closed
Liberian doctor Abraham Borbor died from Ebola, though he received ZMapp, the experimental Ebola drug. Borbor was one of three Africans who took ZMapp. There is no word on the conditions of the other patients. Information Minister Lewis Brown told
The World Health Organization announced one worker is infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone. Ebola killed almost 1,500 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia since the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, the disease is still rampant. WHO did not
Little League Baseball CEO Steve Keener suggested that Little Leaguers who appear on national television could get some compensation in the future. “I’ve always felt we need to be as progressive an organization as we can,” he told Yahoo Sports.
HOUSTON, Texas — The fracking boom may prove to be twice as lucrative as investors initially thought–many U.S. gas and oil producers are starting re-fracking efforts on wells that sunk at least three years ago. Refracking has been made possible thanks
The spread of the Ebola virus out of Guinea and into Sierra Leone has been traced back to one woman in a remote border village who advertised herself as an herbalist with magical powers that could defeat Ebola. Through encounters
Ebola killed 84 in the first three days of this week, the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN’s health body, said Tuesday. The total number of confirmed deaths due to the Ebola virus has now risen to 1,229, according to
Clive Palmer (pictured), Australian mining magnate and leader of the nation’s United Party, accused China of trying to take over the nation’s resources. Although he was quickly lambasted by ruling Liberal Party Prime Minister Tony Abbott, it seems that there
HOUSTON, Texas — Late last week Mexico’s foreign ministry vocalized strong opposition to the presence of the National Guard at the Texas-Mexico border amid the current border crisis. A statement from the foreign ministry reportedly said that Mexico “reiterates, in a firm
Henk Zanoli, 91, is one of the “Righteous Gentiles,” those few heroic Europeans who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Recently, however, the Dutch pensioner returned the medal he received in 2011 to
It has been a week since unrest erupted in Missouri after a Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed teenager Michael Brown. Now, after Yahoo! News combed the Facebook page of Officer Wilson’s father, the first photos of the
What can the New York Jets do to restore the mediocre franchise to past glory? Bring back Joe Namath? Okay. Call the New York Sack Exchange back into session? Sure. Encourage a Curtis Martin comeback? Yeah. But bring back Fireman
Notre Dame has suspended four starters on its football team pending an investigation into a possible case of academic fraud. Yahoo! News reported on Friday that four members of the football team have been interviewed by school officials over what
Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s state-owned energy entity will consume 83 percent of the country’s proven and probable oil reserves, the AP reports. Mexican Energy Secretary Joaquin Coldwell said that Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) share of the oil supply will equal 2.5 million
President Barack Obama has already played nearly eight times as many rounds of golf during his presidency as President George W. Bush did throughout his eight years in office, according to noted presidential chronicler of all things numerical, CBS News’
The Republican National Committee blasted President Obama for his prodigious golfing habit Thursday. According to a recent RNC tally, since taking office Obama has played 186 rounds of golf, 22 of which have been on Martha’s Vineyard, where the president
Those post-Super Bowl, pre-Opening Day blues are about to get bluer. The NBA expands its All-Star break to an eight-game minimum for the 2014-2015 season. By way of comparison, MLB breaks for a three-day minimum during its All-Star break. NHL,
Magic Johnson says that Los Angeles will have an NFL franchise within 24 months. The city has been without a team since Christmas Eve 1994, when the Raiders lost to the Chiefs 19-9, cleared out their lockers, and moved back
ASHKELON, Israel – Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the current ceasefire by another 72 hours late Wednesday night, although Israel’s Channel 2 News reports a rocket landed in the Eshkol region shortly after reports of the agreement surfaced. As
When Robin Williams smiled his whole face smiled … except for his eyes. Williams’ eyes twinkled, moistened, saw right through you, but never smiled. His eyes informed us something else was going on, something deeper; that the character was holding
The Chinese government is stepping up its international humanitarian efforts in Africa, sending almost $5 million-worth of medical supplies to the three countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak: Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. This as China tests another eight
The Tea party-aligned candidate in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary Joe Miller invoked the “R” word, as in Karl Rove, in attacking his two opponents over their stance on illegal immigration. Given the way the immigration issue is now playing nationally,
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and other “free commons” websites, is trying to organize a crowdsourced viral movement on the web to overturn Europe Court of Justice’s “right to be forgotten” ruling that gives private individuals the right to request
With few resources to treat the infected, and even fewer to keep the virus from spreading, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun isolating large swaths of the country where the virus has spread uncontrollably, attempting to isolate
Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the all-but-done deal between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers is finally a done deal. Almost. Sorta. Kinda. Once Andrew Wiggins’s one-month, post-rookie-contract grace period ends, the deal will go through. But an agreement is in
It is really unfortunate that, when they were being marched to the gas chambers, the Jewish victims of Nazi aggression did not contemplate the effect their deaths would have on the German death-camp guards. Certainly, they are guilty of not
The Islamic State (ISIS), an organization of terrorists, took control of Iraq’s largest dam as well as an oilfield and three towns on Sunday after crushing Kurdish forces, Reuters reported. According to the report, seizing control of “the electricity-generating Mosul Dam,
On Saturday at Michigan’s “Big House,” a friendly soccer match between two of the world’s most storied franchises–England’s Manchester United and Spain’s Real Madrid–drew 109, 318 fans, which was a U.S. record. According to Yahoo Sports, “the previous record of
CAIRO, Egypt– Last Thursday, during a press briefing in Washington, DC, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf accused Egypt of using military weapons “against their own people.” Badr Abdel-Atti, spokesman for Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, fired back, describing the comments as “sheer
On July 25 Breitbart News reported that Massachusetts police chiefs wanted “sole discretion” over who can purchase a long gun, be it a rifle or a shotgun. On August 1 state lawmakers passed a bill that gives police chiefs such
On September 28, 2011, President Barack Obama participated in an “Open for Questions” roundtable with reporters from Yahoo!, MSN Latino, AOL Latino and HuffPost LatinoVoices. A Obama told the reporters who pushed him on taking executive action on immigration reform
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his security officials are to blame for the rise of Sunni insurgents who have seized parts of Iraq, the country’s Kurdish foreign minister said. Hoshiyar Zebari’s comments are likely to further
The Ebola outbreak ravaging Western Africa has now claimed 729 lives, according to the World Health Organization, prompting panicked governments to shut down schools and keep contaminated villages on lockdown. The Associated Press reports that the WHO announcement is based
The leader of the eurosceptic right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has said that immigrants who do not want to integrate should be expelled. Heinz-Christian Strache also repeated his call for separate school classes for foreign children to learn the German
Experts, insurers, and hospitals still don’t have enough data to say if Obamacare is going to be good for the country, but two things seem certain thus far: hospital chains and insurers are raking in the dough while patients are
Fox Sports 1 made the Big East the only basketball conference to top $150 million in profit this year as the conference also grabs the most top recruits per team. The ACC may pass the mark with the addition of
An immigration hawk who has voiced concern over the current House proposal to cope with the ongoing crisis at the border says he and other conservatives they will be able to vote “yes” for the measure if it includes two
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be “glad” to return an award given to him in 2004 by a prominent American Jewish group, Turkey’s embassy in the US said Tuesday, amid a growing controversy over the premier’s anti-Israel remarks. According
**UPDATE** The Associated Press reports that the tally of plants discovered and cleared is now 100,000, “worth an estimated $175 million.” HOUSTON, Texas–Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to a tip from a hunter and discovered tens of thousands of
A woman being treated for Ebola in a Sierra Leone hospital died after family members forcibly removed her from the hospital to bring her to a trusted traditional herbalist. The incident is causing alarm in medical communities fighting the Ebola
