The deadliest recorded Ebola outbreak surpassed 700 deaths across West Africa as the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced dozens of new deaths reported in the last several days.

WHEN the national broadcasting station — in the days when there was only one national broadcasting station — sent out an invitation for families to compete in a quiz programme, I entered our family in the contest.

US president George Bush is heading for another conflict with European leaders after accusing the EU of aggravating hunger in Africa with a trade ban on genetically-modified food.

Two British scientists and an American researcher today won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.