The Nigerian city of Lagos shut down and quarantined a hospital where a man died of Ebola in the first recorded case of the highly infectious disease in Africa’s most populous country.

US MILITARY helicopters swooped down on Haiti’s wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies yesterday as a huge international relief operation to earthquake survivors gained momentum.

RESCUE workers andrelief goods started pouring into Haiti from around the world yesterday but aid groups faced huge challenges trying to reach quake survivors trapped in the rubble or wandering homeless in the streets.

Paul Garwood, Baghdad