An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone arrived Tuesday in Rome, where he will receive specialist treatment, media reported.
The doctor, the first Italian to be infected with the disease, was flown into the military airport of Pratica di Mare, outside the capital.
The doctor, who reports say is a 50-year-old man, was transported in a specially sealed unit on board a military plane, TV pictures showed.
He will be hospitalised at the Lazzaro Spallanzani national institute for infectious diseases.
The Italian health ministry said he...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Cultists kidnap, murder Kogi varsity professor, student
By Boluwaji Obahopo
LOKOJA—A lecturer with Kogi State University, KSU, Anyigba, Associate Professor Justice Olurotimi Otitolaye, has been reported killed by cult members in the institution.
Professor Otitolaye.
Vanguard gathered that Professor Otitolaye, who had been championing war against examination malpractice in the institution, was abducted around Stadium Road, near the campus on Friday night, on his way to a supermarket.
His bullet-riddled...
Report: China building airstrip' island
China is building an island in the South China Sea that could accommodate the country's first airstrip in bitterly contested waters, according to satellite images analyzed by IHS Jane's Defence Weekly.
Reclamation at Fiery Cross Reef on the western edge of the disputed Spratly islands is creating a land mass that is more than 3,000 meters (2 miles) long and between 200 to 300 meters (650 to 980 feet) wide -- large enough to construct a...
2014 American Music Awards: Complete List of Winners!
By Sean ft Stanley
The 42nd annual American Music Awards shook L.A.'s Nokia Theatre Sunday night. Taylor Swift unleashed the first performance of "Blank Space," Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea premiered their TV rendition of "Booty," and other artists, including Selena Gomez, Lorde, Charli XCX, Sam Smith, and A$AP Rocky, rounded out the rest of the live fare. (There was also a very strange but wonderful Waka Flocka Flame commercial.)...
Banker 'fit' to enter plea over HK murders
By Paul Armstrong, CNN
UPDATED: NOV 24, 2014 04:50 GMT
A court in Hong Kong has ruled that a British banker charged with the grisly murder of two Indonesian women is psychologically fit to enter a plea on both counts.
However, the case has been adjourned until July next year to allow for more than 200 pieces of forensic and DNA evidence to be analyzed.
Rurik Jutting has been in custody since November 1 following the discovery of the bodies of...
