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Young black protesters from Ferguson, Missouri, want to keep their anger focused on the fatal police shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Theme for 2014: Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty.
Media reports and a church rector have identified the second Ebola patient in Texas as a 26-year-old nurse infected while caring for a man from Liberia.
Alaska will begin accepting marriage applications from same-sex couples Monday after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on gay marriage - the first such prohibition approved by voters in the US.
More than a dozen protesters were arrested Sunday in St. Louis, Missouri, where people were staging protests calling for the arrest of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black 18-year-old in August.
Signaling bright prospects for joint US-Chinese efforts in the world of TV, the CBS drama Scorpion was a ratings hit with more than 14 million viewers tuning into its premiere on Sept 22 and making a good showing for the next three weeks.
To raise awareness of the difficulties faced by girls and their potential if empowered, international NGO Plan China, UN Women and the Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women hosted a celebration of the 3rd International Day of the Girl Child in Beijing.
Despite deep concerns over a prolonged low global economic growth ahead, senior officials from international financial organizations expressed their optimism over China's economic slowdown.
China and the United States agreed Sunday to jointly make good preparations for US President Barack Obama's visit to Beijing next month for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting.
The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Sunday that a "breach in protocol" caused a health care worker in Texas to preliminarily test positive for Ebola.
A Texas health worker who provided care for the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US has tested positive for the virus in a preliminary examination.
Medical teams at New York's JFK airport began screening travelers from three West African countries on Saturday.
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