Health

Sokoto family battles to raise ransom for 8 abductees

Forty days after suspected bandits killed the Chief Imam of Kuda-Kuda village in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, eight members of his family remain in captivity as relatives struggle to raise the N30 million ransom demanded…

AllAfrica

Africa: Africa CDC and WHO Call for Urgent, Community-Led Action to Contain Ebola in the DR Congo

[WHO] The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with…

AllAfrica

Ex-N/Assembly commission chair Adamu Fika dies at 84

A former Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) Dr. Adamu Mohammed Fika, is dead. He was 84. Fika, who held the traditional title of Zarma Kura of Fika, died at a hospital in Abuja, according to a statement by the…

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid

Stuff

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid

Wiza Bondele goes to work every day at a hospital in Congo with one goal in mind: to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

Stuff

20-Year-Old Jailed After Fleeing Police On Electric Scooter With Drugs In Pembroke

Lovin Malta

20-Year-Old Jailed After Fleeing Police On Electric Scooter With Drugs In Pembroke

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to one year in prison after attempting to flee police on an electric scooter while in possession of cannabis and ketamine. Nicholas Galea, from Pembroke, admitted to the charges after being stopped by…

Lovin Malta

Moment earthquake shakes hospital operating room in Japan

BBC

Moment earthquake shakes hospital operating room in Japan

Security camera footage shows doctors shielding a patient on the operating table as last month's magnitude 6.8 quake shook Kumamoto General Hospital.

BBC

Four arrested and two in critical condition after violent clashes in South Wales

Sky News

Four arrested and two in critical condition after violent clashes in South Wales

Four men have been arrested and two are in critical condition in hospital after violent disorder in South Wales.

Sky News

Suspect among 7 dead in Thailand school shooting; 15 injured

Suspect among 7 dead in Thailand school shooting; 15 injured

At least seven people were killed on Friday when a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said. Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern…

CNA

Malaysian court postpones graft proceedings against former PM Ismail Sabri to Aug 27 due to health reasons

The 66-year-old had reportedly been scheduled to be charged at 9am on Friday (Aug 7) at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act.

CNA

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Kris Aquino returns to spotlight in Netflix special appearance

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Kris Aquino returns to spotlight in Netflix special appearance

Multimedia Queen Kris Aquino is back in the spotlight with a special appearance as Netflix’s CHIKA. | Screengrabbed from IG video CEBU CITY, Philippines — Multimedia Queen Kris Aquino has officially returned to the screen, making a special…

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4,000 cases

Straits Times

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4,000 cases

Aug 7 - Democratic Republic of Congo's confirmed Ebola cases have risen above 4,000 for the first time in the current outbreak, government data showed.

Straits Times

Medico-legal board for exhumation of Mir Raza Ali's body abruptly reconstituted

Medico-legal board for exhumation of Mir Raza Ali's body abruptly reconstituted

KARACHI: The medical board tasked with exhuming the body of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) graduate Mir Raza Ali has been reconstituted, it emerged on Friday. A day earlier, a Karachi court allowed the exhumation on an…