The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers contracted Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients, a missionary couple have said.

The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in west Africa was en route to Atlanta today after a customs and refuelling stop in Maine.

Infamous warlord, accused blood diamond merchant and former Liberian President Charles Taylor will be in the dock today before a war crimes tribunal bent on sending a powerful message to the world’s despots that no one is above the law.