The Ebola outbreak tearing through the eastern DRC has killed 1,000 people, making it the deadliest epidemic of the virus ever recorded.

Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, was elected on Thursday to serve as the next president of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Dozens of fatalities are being recorded each day in what could become the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever ...

She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows ...