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1 of 4. Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) put on their protective gear before entering an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun July 20, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Tommy Trenchard Jenneh became a nurse in Sierra Leone 15 years ago with the hope of saving lives in one of the world's poorest countries. Now she fears for her own after three of her colleagues died of Ebola. Health workers like Jenneh are on the frontline of the battle against the world's worst ever outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has killed 729 people in Sierra Leone, neighboring Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria so far. With West Africa's hospitals lacking trained staff, and international aid agencies alre...

1 of 17. Palestinians wheel a woman, whom medics said was wounded by Israeli shelling, outside a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 2, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa   Israel signaled it was winding down the 25-day-old Gaza war unilaterally, saying on Saturday it would not attend Egyptian-hosted negotiations for a new truce and giving Palestinians who had fled fighting in one northern town the all-clear to return. But shelling exchanges continued, with Palestinian officials saying Gaza's mostly civilian death toll rose to 1,669 and Israel saying its Iron Dome interceptor shot down rockets launched at the cities of Tel Aviv and Beersheba. Several ceasefires between Israel and the Gaza Strip's dominant Islamist Hamas faction had failed to take hold or quickly c...

Former world and Commonwealth champion Amantle Montsho has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test following the women’s 400m final at Glasgow 2014. The A sample of Botswana’s Montsho, who finished fourth in the final, tested positive for banned stimulant methylhexaneamine. A further test of the B sample will take place on Monday in London. Montsho won Commonwealth gold at Delhi 2010 and the world title in 2011. She won silver at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, losing out on gold to Great Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu in a dramatic photo-finish. Montsho told the BBC earlier this year that she would quit athletics after the Rio 2016 Olympics and aimed to become a basketball player.

American Muslim Omar Akersim's books the Progressive Muslim is viewed next to The Quran, the Muslim holy book at his home in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Nearly 40 percent of the estimated 2.75 million Muslims in the U.S. are American-born and the number is growing, with the Muslim population skewing younger than the U.S. population at large, according to a 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) The Associated Press LOS ANGELES –   Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay. Akersim, 26, is part of a small but growing number of American Muslims challenging the long-standing interpretations of Islam that defined their parents' world. They believe that one can be gay and Muslim; that the sexes can pray shoulder-to-shoulder;...

by Matthew Boyle 1 Aug 2014 476 post a comment Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) praised House Republicans late Friday evening for standing strong on immigration and warned Democrats in Congress that they will be held accountable for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens. “I applaud the hard work of House Republicans in putting together this package, and in particular would like to recognize the steadfast and unflinching efforts from members of our Alabama delegation,” Sessions said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. “The border bill has been substantially improved, and provides a marked contrast to the Senate Democrat bill—defeated on a bipartisan basis—that only perpetuated the crisis.” Sessions’s praise comes after much turmoil in the House of Representatives over the past few weeks as Speaker John Boehner tried but failed ...

Wow! That was a rough ride. What with all the negative news about MHI17, the Algerian plane disaster, Boko Haram, Ebola, etc and wait Gaza of course Gaza, well, Gaza? Oh my, Hamas and Israel- will the  two of you stop these killings,please, will you please stop shedding the blood of the innocents? Will you stop this destructions? Will you stop this annihilation? Will the two of you, the hard hearted Hamas (yes, because your people are dying in hundreds) and the stubborn Israel, stop this? why don’t you listen to the United Nations and stop this politics, yes politics, which in my own dictionary means takeover, yes, takeover-you mean you don’ t know that politics is all about taking over? Taking over a district, town or city, state, country and even the world, well this topic is for another day. Today for a short while, I would talk about health. Now- we know that moving machine parts require lubrication. This is necessary in order to reduce friction which causes the wear of ma...

    Mr Druz said Ukraine's government was a "terrorist" organisation A senior adviser to rebels in eastern Ukraine has confirmed that extrajudicial killings have been carried out "to prevent chaos". Igor Druz told the BBC such "executions" sent an important signal to the rest of the rebel forces. He also said Ukraine's government was a "terrorist" organisation, committing war crimes against civilians. Meanwhile, forensic experts are carrying out a second day of work at the site of a crashed Malaysian plane. Some 70 Dutch and Australian experts are scouring the vast crash site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed after reportedly being brought down by a missile. More than 1,500 people are believed to have been killed in the conflict which erupted in east Ukraine in April, after rebels declared independence from the new government in Kiev. Russ...

 You’ve been a goody two shoes all week, eating nothing but lean protein and grilled veggies to keep that waistline trim. Then, Friday night rolls around, your friends invite you to dinner and your diet goes out the window in favor of mozzarella sticks. Even if you manage to avoid temptation, it can be hard to discern what’s good for you and what isn’t, from a menu. Staying healthy is easy when you can plan meals yourself, but when faced with the tantalizing choices of a restaurant menu, it can be hard to determine what’s good and what’s bad. So, we’ve done the work for you. Here’s how you can eat out and still eat healthy! When examining a menu you need to look at three important factors: • What is in the dish? • How is it prepared? • What is in the sauce? First, remember, lighter colored proteins like turkey, tilapia, halibut, chicken, and tofu are lower in calories than darker meats like beef, salmon, lamb, and tuna. Second, knowing what the various terms m...

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, slammed Democrats on Tuesday for saying House Republicans want to impeach President Obama, calling it "a scam started by Democrats at the White House." "This whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president's own staff and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Why? Because they're trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's election," Boehner said. "We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans," he added, for emphasis. John Boehner announces plans to sue Obama Democratic campaign organizations have peppered their supporters with emails warning about impending impeachment proceedings to raise money. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) - which sent reporters an email with the subject line, "House Republicans Refuse to R...

Noam Sohn was an eighth grader in Westchester County, N.Y., when he started to feel a certain responsibility to help protect a country thousands of miles away. "I felt that if I got to go to Israel and feel safe then I should also help the next generation feel safe," said Sohn. "In one way or another Israel is a homeland for me and I started to feel that this might be a better place for me to begin my life as an adult." At the age of 19, Noam Sohn was ready to leave the comfort of his home and his family to enlist in the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He is not alone. Roughly 1,000 American citizens serve in the Israeli army, according to IDF estimates. They are called "lone soldiers" - citizens from other countries who choose to volunteer for the IDF. Noam Sohn in IDF uniform CBS News Most of the lone soldiers are in their 20s. Last ...

As health officials prepare to transport two Americans stricken with the Ebola virus to the U.S., many people are expressing concern over the public health risks treating these patients may pose to others. The outbreak in West Africa is blamed for more than 700 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia so far this year, and this will be the first time Ebola patients have been brought to this country.The two American patients, a doctor and a volunteer working with non-profit health organizations in Liberia, will be transported separately on specially-equipped, private air ambulance flights within the next few days to Emory University School of Medicine for care, according to hospital officials. Emory spokesman Vincent Dollard said the first patient was expected to arrive Saturday afternoon. It was not immediately clear when the second patient would arrive. Emory is known as one of the country's most sophisticated high-containment medical facilities. Dr. Bruce Ribner,...

Following the recent outbreak of the Ebola disease in Nigeria, the Lagos State government has set up a reporting system to facilitate early identification of suspected Ebola cases. An alert management system has been put in place to receive alerts calls from individuals or communities regarding suspected Ebola cases in addition to the creation of a website www.ebolaalert.org Dr Jide Idris, the state commissioner for health also disclosed that communication materials are being distributed in addition to the various platforms like facebook:www.facebook.com/EbolaAlert, Twitter: @EbolaAlert and Mobile app:EbolaCheckUp.ebolaalert.org to correct the rumors and misinformation surrounding the Ebola disease. •Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris (2nd right), his Information and Strategy counterpart, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba (left), Special Adviser on Public Health, Dr (Mrs.) Yewande Adeshina (2ndleft) and the Director, Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control,...

A nurse Thursday places an information sign about Ebola on a wall of a public-health center in Monrovia, Liberia, which announced school closures. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. Doctors in Lagos, Nigeria, were on strike July 20, the day a man infected with Ebola landed at a packed airport in Africa's biggest city. In a few days a Muslim holiday would send health workers on a break and millions of ordinary people crowding into buses and planes. The city's health commission was out of thermometers, said Health Commissioner Jide Idris. In a press conference Friday, President Obama said the CDC and other U.S. health agencies are working with the World Health Organization to s...