U.S. regulators Wednesday approved the first drug for the treatment of Ebola. Survival was significantly better in study participants given Regeneron's Inmazeb or a second experimental drug. Regeneron's treatment is a combination of three antibodies that work by killing the virus.

Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina tell BBC podcast there is "hope" for beating climate change.

Alpha Condé, who spent years in opposition, is seeking a controversial third term.

The treatment, Inmazeb, underwent trials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which recently declared its 11th Ebola outbreak in just over 40 years.

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Kent Sepkowitz writes that when it comes to Covid-19 cures, we have seen a lot of sizzle from the Trump administration -- lots of happy talk about game-changers and breakthroughs and miracle treatments -- with little to show for it.

The US death toll has doubled less than four months after the 100,000 landmark – and with autumn nearing, there is little chance of containing the contagion, experts sayDonald Trump attended one of his then daily White House coronavirus briefings on 17 April and in a moment of rare candor talked ...

The Iuventa ran hundreds of missions to save migrants from drowning off the coast of Libya. But after Europe cracked down on migration, its crew found themselves facing prosecutionAs patrol boats with flashing blue lights surrounded the Iuventa, just outside the port of Lampedusa on the evening o...

New chaos at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over revised guidance on the spread of Covid-19 is a fresh sign of mixed messaging that long plagued the White House's failed pandemic response.