Home Depot's results beat Wall Street's expectations in the fiscal first quarter on a strong showing from professional customers while homeowners started stocking up on some of their spring supplies.
Trains are set to start rolling again on the Long Island Rail Road after a deal was reached to end a strike that had shut down the busiest commuter rail system in the country.
The Congolese health ministry is reporting that there have been at least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.
Three Finnish divers will attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives.