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At the main ambulance base in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, a government health worker disinfects ambulances with chlorine spray during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

Chasing A Dream: An Ambulance Service That People Can Trust

As Sierra Leone's first national ambulance service revs up, there are a few bumps in the road.

Snowflakes began accumulating on the turf by halftime during a Feb. 6 game at Real Kashmir's home stadium in Srinagar. The coach of the visiting team said later that some members of his team, from southern India, had never seen snow.

Against The Odds, A Pro Soccer Team In Kashmir Is Close To Winning India's Top Title

Real Kashmir FC is less than three years old and plays soccer in a troubled Himalayan region prone to violence, strikes and heavy snow. Soldiers with machine guns patrol the home stadium.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson plans for 2023: expanding highways and child care access

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says improvements to Interstate 70 and expanded access to child care for working families are his top priorities this year.

Jim Nepstad, superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, stands at the top of a bluff looking over the Mississippi River.

Park Service Construction Damaged Native American Burial Sites

National Park Service officials approved $3 million in illegal construction projects over a decade that damaged one of the nation's most sacred Indian burial sites in northeast Iowa.

W.Va. Plan Would Allow Some Service Members To Vote Via Smartphone

That state is experimenting with allowing service members deployed overseas to vote using an app on their smartphone. But there are some big security concerns about the app.

A red-tailed black cockatoo is seen sitting on a branch with the moon behind it. The bird is one of more than 50 featured on the album <em>Songs of Disappearance </em>that features the sounds of many of Australia's endangered birds.

An album made entirely of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift on a top 50 chart

Songs Of Disappearance is an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at No. 3 on the country's top 50 albums chart – ahead of Taylor Swift.

Bill Shapiro's Top 35 Artists For 35 Years

TOP 10Bob DylanElvis PresleyThe BeatlesChuck BerryRay CharlesBob MarleyVan MorrisonBruce SpringsteenJames BrownPaul SimonREMAINING 25, in no particular…

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Stephen McAllister Confirmed As Top Federal Prosecutor In Kansas

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday evening unanimously voted to confirm KU School of Law professor Stephen McAllister as the top federal prosecutor in…

WATCH: A Death-Defying Climb To The Top Of Shanghai Tower

Two daredevils, one from Russia, the other from the Ukraine, sneak onto the construction site at the as-yet-unfinished world's second-tallest building and climb to the top.

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