Reported by Susan Kreimer, ABC News Medical Unit: The death toll from the Ebola virus has doubled within a week in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the outbreak may continue spreading, the World Health Organization cautioned on Thursday. The Ministry of Health has confirmed......

Josh Sankey has been issued a challenge: to make his way from New York City to Los Angeles with nothing but a smile and a refrigerated trailer filled with 3,000 pounds of bacon.
That means no cash and no credit cards. The uncooked bacon is the only currency the actor and comedian has for gas, lodging, food and everything else he'll need along the way.
First-responding cockroaches might be the next big thing in disaster response.
A U.S. intelligence bulletin warned today that the violent outrage aimed at U.S. embassies overseas spawned by a movie mocking the Prophet Mohammed could be spread to America by extremist groups eager to "exploit anger."
One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation.
The bright trails of two missiles on a collision course lit up the early morning western sky Thursday, prompting concerned calls to police and TV stations across at least five states. The glowing cloud-like formation could be seen in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and...
A crane operator working on a transit project in San Francisco unearthed a tooth of a woolly mammoth on Monday. Paleontologist James Allen told ABC News’ San Francisco affiliate, KGO-TV, that the tooth was believed to be between 10,000 and 11,000 years old, and that the fossil was...
Eighteen New York airport workers have been arrested and charged with stealing more than 100,000 mini bottles of liquor and other duty-free items valued at over $750,000 over the past five months, according to authorities.
Asked if he considered the current Egyptian government an ally of the United States, President Obama Wednesday balked. “You know, I don’t think that we would consider them an ally but we don’t consider them an enemy,” he said in an interview with Telemundo. “They...
Tom Willis may have born without arms or fully formed hands, but he hasn’t let that stop him from inspiring others. Willis, who performs most everyday actions using feet, threw out the ceremonial first pitch of Wednesday’s baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and...
A Texas police department is defending an officer who is seen on a dashcam video pulling a 77-year-old woman out of her car during a traffic stop.
A look at how Apple's iconic smartphone has changed over the years.
Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston will perform the nation’s first double arm transplant on a Texas woman, the hospital announced Wednesday. Katy Hayes, 44, a quadruple amputee and mother of three from Kingwood, Texas, has been approved for the transplant after undergoing...