Australia’s west coast is facing hot, dry weather over the next three months, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday, denting the outlook for wheat production in the world’s fourth-largest exporter

A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex brought dangerous cold to a wide swath of the United States, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia

The fight against Ebola depends on tracing people who may have had contact with the disease and could fall ill and spread it further. The outbreak has killed 439 of the 713 people believed to have caught the disease