A nurse comforts an Ebola patient at an isolation clinic in Kampungu, DR Congo. Angola has shut down its northeastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly virus.(AFP/File/Christopher Black)... [more »]

Date: 6 January 2009, 8:00 am

A Doctors Without Borders nurse comforts a 43 year old patient who has been laboratory confirmed to have Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Angola has shut down its northeastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to stop the spread of the d…... [more »]

Date: 6 January 2009, 5:52 am

A Zimbabwean mother and child rest in thier make shift home at the show grounds in Musina, December 2008. At least 1,732 people have died in Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic and the number of cases diagnosed has risen to 34,306, the World Health Organ…... [more »]

Date: 6 January 2009, 4:02 am

Spending a couple of hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers said(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 10:12 pm

A flooded children's playground in Hamburg, Illinois. Childhood trauma, including sexual abuse, emotional abuse and emotional neglect, was linked to a six-fold risk increase for chronic fatigue syndrome in adults, in a study published in the Arch…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 8:25 pm

Palestinian women cry the death of relatives at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital while battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters continue in Gaza. People wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip are dying because ambulances cannot reach them,…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 3:46 pm

An Alzheimers patient at a psychiatric hospital. Alzheimer's disease affects not only the elderly, said a study Monday that found 14 percent of the estimated 500,000 Canadians suffering from dementia are under the age of 65.(AFP/File/Jean-Philipp…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 1:14 pm

The tail of an Air India Boeing 777 in 2008. India's state-run carrier has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 11:46 am

File photo of beer drinkers in central London. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them recover…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 11:24 am

A man stands at a bus stop in Manchester in 2006. As people trudged back to work on Monday bloated from the excesses of Christmas and New Year partying, British scientists warned that buying "detox" products may do nothing to help them reco…... [more »]

Date: 5 January 2009, 11:24 am