At least 12 people, including a one-year-old baby, have died after a fire broke out in an apartment block in the Bronx area of New York.

The World Health Organisation routinely spends about $200m per year on travel expenses, figures show - more than what it doles out to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

An international humanitarian group is planning to host clinical trials in three Ebola treatment centres in West Africa to speed up the search for a specific treatment for the deadly virus.

Brussels Airport will begin screening passengers arriving from Ebola-stricken countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia will soon receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiralling outbreak.