PESHAWAR, Pakistan—When Salma Iqbal developed a high fever in July, her family didn’t think it was anything to worry about.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new message for the developing world's metropolises: make your roads safer.

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KAMPALA, Uganda—Floods sweeping across eastern Uganda have destroyed thousands of hectares of crops, aid officials said Tuesday, warning that tens of thousands of people in the East African nation

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President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S.

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Liberian soldiers on Wednesday fired into a crowd of young men who were trying to escape a quarantine that cordoned off an Ebola-stricken neighborhood in the capital.

SYDNEY—Garbage is piling up on streets across Australia as a major company responsible for its collection investigates a fatal crash involving one of its waste-removal trucks.

The drinking-water crisis in one of Ohio's largest cities is drawing attention to a new requirement for farmers in the state: a license to fertilize.