Dr Kent Brantly, one of few Ebola survivors with medical expertise, has pleaded for help for countries still struggling with the virus.

British novelist Salman Rushdie is to join Emory University in Atlanta and donate his archive to the institution, it has been revealed.

Atlanta’s Emory University has no plans to rescind an invitation to former Irish president and UN human rights official Mary Robinson to be the keynote speaker at its May 10 graduation ceremony, despite a petition claiming she failed to show sensitivity to anti-Semitism.

Irish Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney is to donate thousands of literary papers and letters to an American university.