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Washington: President Barack Obama will ask the US Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the...

Rio De Janeiro: Zika has been identified in the saliva and urine of two patients infected by the virus, a leading Brazilian health institute said on Friday,...

Los Angeles: A skinny sea lion pup with a taste for the finer things in life turned up on Thursday inside a fancy San Diego restaurant, where it settled...

Atlanta: A 72-year-old man convicted of murdering a convenience store manager in a 1979 robbery in Atlanta's suburbs was executed in Georgia early on...

Oklahoma City: An Asian elephant that was moved from Seattle to an Oklahoma zoo died over the weekend, renewing debate over whether 37-year-old Chai should...

Des Moines (Iowa): Relishing victory in the first Republican nominating contest of the US presidential election, Senator Ted Cruz called his defeat of...

Stony Brook (New York): Just weeks after a surgical team on New York's Long Island began a series of operations to rebuild both lips of an 8-year-old...

Bogota: More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country's national health institute said on...

Washington: The mystery behind the extinction of a huge flightless bird called Genyornis that flourished in the grasslands and woodlands of prehistoric...

Rio de Janeiro: Last January, long lines formed outside health clinics in Recife, a city in Brazil's northeast hit hard in recent years by outbreaks of...