US officials will actively monitor health workers who treat Ebola patients in West Africa after they return, but will not enforce quarantine.

Increased access for women to politics and the workforce has narrowed the global gender gap in the past 10 years, the World Economic Forum says.

A fragment of ancient Australia is found under Vanuatu in the South Pacific, raising new questions about how continents are formed.

Relatives of 80 victims of Peru's Dirty War receive their exhumed bodies at a ceremony in the city of Ayacucho.

More than a decade on, fewer than half of US respondents say intervention in Afghanistan was worthwhile, a BBC poll finds.

The Canadian city of Toronto elects a moderate conservative mayor, bringing to an end the era of scandal-hit incumbent Rob Ford.

Mexican authorities looking for 43 students who disappeared after protests last month investigate a suspected mass grave - the second this month.

Australia's Academy of Science says a government draft plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef will not prevent its decline.