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Corruption is a daily fact of life in Ukraine, and that's killing people infected with HIV, say activists. As funds for medicine stray, there is only enough to treat half of all HIV-infected patients.

Since the mine explosion in Soma, Turkey, Davitt McAteer has been looking into what went wrong. He's the former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, and he addresses the tragedy.

Authorities issued an additional 13,000 evacuation notices Thursday afternoon as a 1,000-acre blaze spread out in several directions. It's one of nine brushfires plaguing the area.

The accident that has claimed hundreds of lives appears to have causes that are all-too-familiar to mining experts in the U.S. and around the world.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration says it had no authority to shut down the W. Va. mine where two people were killed this week, despite citing it for numerous violations.

A second case of the new Middle East Respiratory syndrome has shown up in the U.S. The virus has been spreading through Saudi hospitals. Health officials expect more cases to appear here.

Firefighters discovered the body near a homeless encampment as they mopped up hot spots in the Poinsettia fire. Eight homes and two 18-unit apartment complexes were destroyed or damaged in the fire.

Scientists are racing to figure out how the MERS virus infects and kills people. It first surfaced in 2012, and has spread to the United States and other countries. Here's what we know so far.

Noah Shaw was diagnosed with a potentially fatal cancer when he was just 4 months old. That didn't shake his father's faith in God. But it did drive him to try to invent an early cancer test.

Army Pfc. Daniela Rojas, 19, died May 3 in Homburg, Germany of a non-combat related illness, according to the Department of Defense. Rojas grew up in Boyle Heights and was a 2012 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles.