The industry is devoting all its resources to finding a vaccine, but we should not be complacent about the need to invest in future innovation, says Bernard Mallee

An armed gang has attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped 10 of the vessel's crew members, Turkey's state-run news agency said.

The world is to invest $90tn in infrastructure in the next 15 years alone. Well regulated, impartial professionals need to test the impact such changes will bring to the environment, says Maxwell Gomera.

A new initiative has been launched in Dublin by Plan International and UNESCO Chair IT Tralee to help children with disabiliteis to join in everyday activities including playing sport.

Caroline O’Doherty speaks with an Irish aid worker in one of Africa’s most volatile regions that has been hit with an outbreak of the ebola virus

Around 700 jobs at Aughinish Alumina in Limerick are safe for now after the US senate voted to support the White House in ending sanctions against the plant’s Russian owner.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has again voiced his opposition to the Nations League, arguing there is no room for it in the calendar.

The US Treasury has extended the deadline to investors to divest interests in the Russian firm that owns Aughinish Alumina, in Limerick, but has not removed it from its sanctions list.

Investigators believe the blaze, the deadliest residential fire to hit New York City in at least 25 years, was caused by a child playing with a stove, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

The largest alumina refinery in Europe, Aughinish Alumina on the Shannon estuary, went back into the red last year.

Liverpool have not commented on reports they have agreed a club record fee to sign long-term target Naby Keita from Red Bull Leipzig next summer.

Latest: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have met briefly ahead of their highly anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany.

Off the pitch reports in Guinea have claimed Liverpool target Naby Keita has told RB Leipzig he wants to leave.

LATEST: One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including another death, the country's health minister said.

Exiled Gambian ruler Yahya Jammeh has been accused of stealing millions of euro in his final weeks in power, and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane.

Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh has arrived at Banjul Airport after finally agreeing to accept defeat.

African governments must start making smart choices and investments to tackle malnutrition on the continent, says Adebimpe Adebiyi.

Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest place, according to a report that urged nations regardless of wealth to tackle inequality and protect the environment.

The World Health Organization is warning that the zika virus may yet spread across all of the Americas, bringing with it the inability to procreate safely. Peter Apps reports on the crisis

Concern Worldwide’s Anne O’Mahony feels there are reasons to to be optimistic about 2016 but also sees many challenges ahead, especially if we all don’t work together.

Male political leaders have been urged to live up to their responsibility to sufficiently support women in crisis and conflict settings.

Mortars lit up the dawn sky when they were fired on a United Nations base in the northern Mali city of Kidal, killing at least three people.

Ireland moved up one notch to 24th place in the World Economic Forum competitiveness rankings, but the country’s overall debt and the ease of business to access capital is holding it back from performing even better.

The international community was content to ignore the ebola epidemic until it was so widespread it no longer could. By then, it was too late to avert a major catastrophe, writes Samuel Kargbo

Health authorities quarantined hundreds of people in northern Sierra Leone after a 16-year-old girl died of ebola in an apparent case of sexual transmission, the first confirmed death from the virus in the district for nearly six months.

An end to the ebola epidemic in West Africa may be in sight after results from a fast-tracked vaccine trial were described as “hugely important” and “very exciting” by experts.

Two new ebola vaccine trials began with volunteers in Britain, France and Senegal getting “prime-boost” immunisations developed by Bavarian Nordic, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson.

Irish citizens are being advised to avoid non-essential travel to Tunisia in the light of increased security concerns. The travel advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs has been changed from “exercise extreme caution” to “avoid non-essential travel”.

The ebola crisis “exposed organisational failings” in the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has highlighted the need for it to make “fundamental changes”, an independent report has found.

GUINEA: Scientists have discovered a group of booze-loving apes who may hold the key to why humans enjoy drinking alcohol. 

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IN A world where grim, disheartening news seems almost relentless the weekend announcement by the World Health Organisation that Liberia is believed to be free of the ebola virus is cheering and very welcome.

The West African countries hit hardest by ebola are ramping up efforts to eradicate the deadly disease using lockdowns, restrictions on burials and a warning to survivors about the potential dangers of unprotected sex.

Médecins Sans Frontières says its warnings that the ebola epidemic was spiralling out of control and that it could not respond were dismissed as alarmist, writes Misha Hussain

It is exactly a year since the deadliest outbreak of ebola was confirmed and health experts and charities have warned the danger is far from over.

Liberia has released its last ebola patient from a treatment centre in the capital Monrovia, beginning its countdown to being declared ebola-free.

The deadly disease of Ebola was in danger of becoming a forgotten tragedy, confined to some of the poorest places on the planet, an international conference heard.

Almost 30 countries are highly vulnerable to an ebola-style epidemic which could jeopardise the future of millions of children, a charity has warned.

The head of the United Nations mission for Ebola emergency response has hailed Liberia’s success in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, but warned against complacency now that the number of cases has dropped.

An Irishman who’s just returned from Liberia where he’d been helping to stem the spread of the deadly ebola virus says some of his colleagues have been stigmatised for trying to save lives.

Sierra Leone has imposed a quarantine in a fishing district of the capital city, Freetown, after at least five new Ebola cases were confirmed there, an official said today.

10 years ago, examples of female genital mutilation in Ireland were rare. Not so anymore, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A large-scale human trial of two potential ebola vaccines got under way in Liberia’s capital yesterday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa.