Liberia has begun treating Ebola patients with serum therapy - a treatment made from the blood of recovered survivors.
Doctors hope the experimental treatment could help combat the virus that has been sweeping West Africa and killing thousands of people.
Up to 13 December, 6,841 people had been...
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MONROVIA, Liberia — Landlords won't rent to them. Employers won't hire them. Taxi drivers won't give them a lift. Barber shops refuse to cut their hair without gloves.
They are Ebola survivors. In one place where they are desperately needed as workers, Ebola treatment clinics, many survivors...
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JOPLIN, Mo. – Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.
It was the nation's...
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ONAGAWA, Japan – As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant.
Nearly three weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next...
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Worried families of Britons feared dead in the Japanese tsunami have spoken of their huge relief as they finally heard from their loved ones.
Dawn Pearson, 66, had an agonising wait over the weekend until son Adam, who had been teaching English in the town of Kuji, got in touch.
‘It...
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Prime minister Naoto Kan warned there is danger of more leaks and told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of Fukushima complex to stay indoors to avoid exposure that could make people sick.
Around 70,000 people had already been evacuated from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius, and...
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Four workers suffer fractures after explosion at power plant
Metal container housing nuclear reactor was not damaged in blast
Confirmed death toll stands at 574, but hundreds are still missing
Region still being hit by aftershocks, some as powerful as magnitude 6
Millions left without power and...
First L4D2 add-on content looks good
We are able to update our previous story with news that we can now confirm the first downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2 titled The Passing will arrive this Thursday for Xbox 360 owners willing to spend the 560 Microsoft Points that it will cost.
While...