Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that one has already turned opaque.

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first ...

Asian markets rose Friday after a record day on Wall Street in response to Donald Trump's tax-cut pledge, while the yen weakened slightly ahead of an expected interest rate hike ...

Helicopter pilot Tim Thomas has fought dozens of wildfires all over the world, but nothing prepared him for the scale and the challenge of the devastating blazes that ripped through ...

Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring an "overlooked" ...

First-year Washington coach Danny Sprinkle has called his team's January schedule "a month from hell." It's hard to argue, with the Huskies having suffered five consecutive defeats -- all to ...

In an intriguing turn of events, Liam Coen met with the Jacksonville Jaguars regarding their head coaching vacancy on Thursday, ESPN reported, one day after agreeing to a contract with ...

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs underwent knee surgery on Thursday, the team said in a news release. Diggs missed the final six games of the 2024 season with a left ...

After experiencing some significant issues on defense, Iowa is now seeking to fix its struggling offense Friday when Penn State visits Iowa City. The Hawkeyes (12-7, 3-5 Big Ten) had ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned the pharmaceutical company Sanofi about significant deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practice for active pharmaceutical ...

Colombia called on neighboring Venezuela Thursday to help tackle guerrillas blamed for a week of bloody violence that has ...

Mortgage rates dipped below 7% this week as the housing market continued to snuggle into its winter hibernation.The average rate on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 12 basis points to ...