British Ebola victim William Pooley told of Sierra Leone’s poverty and his brushes with the country’s political elite shortly before he was struck down by the potentially deadly virus.

One of the country’s most senior public service trade union leaders has cast doubt on the Labour Relations Commission’s ability to engineer agreement between unions and the Government on how to cut the State’s wage bill by €1bn by 2015.

Libyans started voting today in the first parliamentary election since last year’s ousting and killing of long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, taking a major step forward in the country’s tumultuous transition to democratic rule.

CALLED the city of three cultures, Toledo in midland Spain was once home to Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities who shared an intellectual harmony — for a while!

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has appealed for all sides to leave behind the Civil War recriminations which have dominated Irish politics in the past.

Palestinian security today foiled an attempt to kill a top commander loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas with a roadside bomb, officials said, further raising tensions between Abbas’ Fatah movement and the Hamas-led government.

The Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel has said its Beirut office received a call from someone who said a previously unknown group carried out the car bomb attack in which former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and nine others died.

UN relief workers are finding thousands of women who have suffered “atrocious rapes” during five years of civil war in Congo, a spokeswoman said today.