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He lost his sight in his youth. But he's lived an independent life for decades — despite the best efforts of goats to raid his crops.

Two of the 2015 Nobel Prize winners for medicine discovered a drug that is driving down this parasitic disease in Ghana.

A Jewish community leader in the southern city of Marseille has sparked controversy by calling on Jews to stop wearing skullcaps after a teacher was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack.

Why did part of a road in Russia's Komi Republic keep disappearing? The acting deputy chief of the federal prison service is accused of stealing pavement from a 30-mile stretch of road.

Despite the long odds, Alex managed to intensify into a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Parts of the Azores are now under a hurricane warning.

Nominees include globally-minded films set in places like Liberia and Pakistan. But a new study of nominated documentary directors does confirm: #OscarsSoWhite

Amnesty International says it has evidence of deaths in custody and torture in Tunisia, which has been heralded as a bright spot in a troubled region.

A deadly bombing is the latest sign of the turmoil that has engulfed the country since its longtime leader was toppled in 2011.

The Zika virus first appeared in South America about eight months ago and it has since spread to 14 countries.

The Pentagon on Thursday transferred 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Oman in the largest single transfer to a single country under the Obama administration. There are also reports 30 more people could be transferred out of the detention center by this summer, and the administration wants to move the balance of the prisoners to the United States.