Oscar Belgal, a Dominican immigrant, was shot in the neck on Oct. 8 and detained at a federal prison. His lawyers had said he needed outside medical care.

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This is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history, according to one expert, and the owls have attracted nightly crowds of people in the street eager to get a glimpse of the elusive birds.

More than 90 women were sent to Saudi Arabia on fake documents in an elaborate fraud to provide workers for short-staffed Gulf hospitals

For female students, the move would spell the end of their careers and prospects under Taliban rule

A skeletal maternity service is battling to keep mothers and babies alive in Afghanistan. It is running on borrowed time