Alex Thomson
The value of a human life in Sierra Leone? $5,000
The Sierra Leone government says it will pay $5,000 compensation for every health worker to die from Ebola.
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Alex Thomson
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Does new e-cigarette advert sexualise vaping?
The first adverts to show people smoking an e-cigarette air on British television on Monday.
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Geoff White
Kerching! The tech battle for your wallet
Tech giants hope to consign the grubby leather wallet/purse to the dustbin of history. The US is leading the charge and it’s a three-way fight.
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Kurds defy IS assault on Kobani as Turkey looks on
The defenders of the Syrian Kurdish town claim to have repulsed waves of attacks by Islamic State militants, as pressure grows on Turkey to intervene.
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Gary Gibbon
Will ‘almost federal’ offer to Scots change votes?
You find quite a few late-surge yes supporters saying they wish that devo max had been on the ballot paper.
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Must Syria’s Assad be part of the west’s fight against IS?
With America’s most senior general calling for the military offensive against Islamic State to be broadened, some are asking if our enemy’s enemy – Syria’s President Assad – should now be our friend.
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Tests show Irish man did not die of Ebola virus
The Irish man who died after returning from Sierra Leone did not have Ebola, say authorities. But his family say they were not informed about a potential link, and learned about it from the media.
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Simon Israel
James Foley murder video: watch it and you risk terror charges
The gruesome video of the murder of journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants is a terrorist publication say UK police, and those viewing or sharing it risk prosecution.
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North Korea hopes surf tour leads to tourism boom
Thinking of a late summer holiday? Thousands want out of the gulag, but tourists want in. Here are some postcards from North Korea’s nascent tourism boom.
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Paul Mason
Why Gaza will prove to be a game-changing event
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
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Liam Dutton
Rare noctilucent clouds light up the sky
Last night delivered a spectacular showing of noctilucent clouds in the sky above the UK, leading to a flurry of tweets this morning, asking me what they are.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Salwa Bugaighis: Libyan human rights activist who took on Gaddafi
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
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Judge tells off Cameron for talking too soon on Coulson
Jurors fail to reach verdicts on two remaining charges facing the PM’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, as the phone-hacking judge tells off politicians.
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Russia-US talks make little progress on Crimea
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, say they are keen for the choices of Ukrainians to be respected but the two men mean very different things.
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Kelly Gallagher takes first GB Winter Paralympics gold
Visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans earn Great Britain their first-ever gold medal at the Sochi Winter Paralympics, taking the super-G title.
