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The Centers for Disease Control has determined that the 4-year-old New Jersey boy who died at home last week had enterovirus. It’s still not clear if the respiratory illness played a direct role or was a contributing factor in his death, however, state health officials say.

An Internet video released Friday purports to show a fighter for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) beheading British hostage Alan Henning.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong canceled talks with the government on electoral reforms after mobs of people tried to drive them from the streets they have occupied for a week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the groups leading the protests that swelled to the tens of thousands earlier this week, said they saw no choice but to …

9 United Nations peacekeepers were killed Friday in an ambush in northeastern Mali, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in the West African country said.

The family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is fighting to challenge a California court decision ruling her deceased due to brain death.  The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, has recently stated that McMath is showing signs that she has regained consciousness.

More than 100 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said.

Jessica Biel flaunted her yoga-toned figure in a skimpy string bikini while on her Hawaiian holiday Saturday. The 32-year-old actress enjoyed a day at the beach in her black two-piece while with her family on Maui.

People who have had a very mild form of stroke called a transient ischemic attack, or TIA, are at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, with almost one-third of people later diagnosed with PTSD, a study finds.

Two high school teachers in Louisiana are accused of having a threesome with a then-16-year-old student, police said. Shelley Dufresne, 32, and Rachel Respess, 24, are charged with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, and indecent behavior with a juvenile.

The Aids pandemic started in the city of Kinshasa – now the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo – in the 1920s, scientists have concluded.

Teresa and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, the married stars of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” were sentenced Thursday by a federal judge to time in prison on conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud charges.