The 37-year-old Emmy-nominated actress is determined to draw attention to the kind of domestic abuse which is usually overlooked: financial abuse.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has started an investigation about allegations that the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity drugged female students at parties hosted by the fraternity.
The world's most famous tortoise Lonesome George might be dead for two years now, but visitors will still have the chance to see him at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, The Guardian reported.
A new poll shows that American high school students care more about freedom of speech and the first amendment to the Constitution than U.S. adults.
According to a recent study, using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar might not be effective. In addition, they might even disrupt the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels.
Some school districts in the United States were given free military grade weapons and gear by the Pentagon, including M16 rifles and mine-resistant armored vehicles.
The Norwegian Refugee Council found that in 2013, natural disasters drove more people from their homes than war did.
The United Nations released a report on Tuesday, revealing that the global child mortality rate has dropped by almost half since 1990. The organization said that they were aiming for a two-thirds reduction by 2015.
On Sunday evening, a boat carrying approximately 250 migrants from Africa sank near the city of Tajoura, east of Libyan capital of Tripoli.
On Monday, local authorities in Vietnam announced that more than 400 drug addicts who were receiving treatment at the Gia Minh rehabilitation center, have escaped. They were receiving obligatory treatment for their addiction.
With elections just days away, former The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the prime minister of New Zealand of approving the mass surveillance of citizens.
T.J. Lane who has three consecutive life sentences for the killing of three classmates and the wounding of three others, has been captured after escaping from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio with two other inmates.
The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pleaded with U.S. president Obama for assistance to help the country cope with the mounting Ebola crisis.
On Friday, a Chinese court found four people guilty of carrying out a massive slaying rampage at a railroad station back in early March, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Three people were sentenced to death and one more was sentenced to life in prison.
On Friday, the Pakistan army declared that they had arrested 10 members of the Taliban involved in the attack on girls' education activist Malala Yousafzai.
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