13 October 2014 Last updated at 02:56
Ebola: Liberian health workers plan strike
Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues.
The National Health Workers Association wants an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those treating Ebola cases.
In the US, President Barack Obama has directed more steps to be taken to ensure high safety procedures when dealing with suspected Ebola patients.
A health worker treating an Ebola victim has herself caught the virus.
Liberia's Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said a strike would have negative consequences on those suffering from Ebola and would adversely affect progress made so far in the fight against the disease.
Hong Kong pro-democracy barricades rushed by crowd
Several hundred people held back by line of police as they gather at barricades set up by protesters
An angry crowd tried to charge barricades used by pro-democracy protesters occupying part of Hong Kong on Monday hours after police cleared away some outer barriers as the standoff dragged into a third week.
Dozens of police officers held back several hundred people gathered in front of barricades on a main road, chanting, “Open the road!”
Some in the crowd tried to remove the metal barricades that protesters, most of them university students, have set up to block off main roads near the heart of the city’s financial district. They also shouted, “Occupy Central is illegal,” referring to one of the names of the pro-democracy movement.
East Germany's inescapable Hohenschönhausen prison
The place where Thomas Raufeisen was unfairly imprisoned and interrogated is today his place of work. As a witness who experienced this prison first hand, he guides visitors through East Germany's central remand center.
The 52-year-old routinely walks the long corridors of the former Stasi prison in eastern Berlin, past the cells and interrogation rooms where he spent the worst days of his life. Fear and uncertainty nearly did him in, Thomas Raufeisen tells a 10th grade school class from Lower Saxony.
Just a few minutes ago these teenagers where standing in the sunny yard outside chatting away. Now they are very quiet. Attentively, they follow the former inmate into a small room.
"I was also locked up in a small cell like this," Raufeisen tells them. "These windows only told you whether it was light or dark outside. Nothing else." He points to a window made of blocks of faded cloudy glass. A wooden cot is attached to the wall. Next to that, a sink and toilet.
Woman leads Kurds in battle against Islamic State in Kobane: activists
Beirut: A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State jihadists in the Syrian battleground town of Kobane, a monitoring group and activists say.
"Mayssa Abdo, known by the nom de guerre of Narin Afrin, is commanding the YPG in Kobane along with Mahmud Barkhodan," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The secular and left-leaning Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) group has been defending Kobane, on the border with Turkey, since Islamic State fighters launched an assault on September 16.
In 'untamed Mexico' a mass grave and a challenge for a president
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has sought to keep Mexico's crime problem on the fringes of his agenda. But the disappearance of 47 students in Guerrero could change that.
IGUALA, MEXICO; AND BOSTON — As tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Mexico this week to call for the return of 43 students who went missing last month, many demanded an answer to one simple question: Who is in charge?
In the state of Guerrero, it's a simple question with no clear answer. The governor is under fire for doing little to stop rampant crime and violence; a local mayor and police officers are accused of being in cahoots with organized crime syndicates; and nine mass graves containing at least 28 scorched bodies – some possibly the missing students – were recently discovered.
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As ice vanishes, big changes in a small Alaskan village
KAKTOVIK, Alaska — In Betty Brower’s memories, there is always ice. Even in the summer, when the sea around Barter Island was open, she could look out and see the jagged shapes of icebergs on the horizon.
Brower is 81 years old, a great-grandmother who has lived all her life along the northern coast of the Beaufort Sea, the last 60 years in this Inupiat village of about 250 people on Barter Island. In the mid-1990s, summer ice began to disappear, she said recently, speaking in Inupiaq as her daughter Marie Rexford interpreted. The period of open water grew longer, she said. And then came the bears.
Polar bears used to spend time on the ice far from shore hunting seals, she said. But when the ice vanished, they began ambling on land more often than before. Soon villagers were seeing more of them than anybody could remember, especially the last few years.
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