American health officials have faced some tough questioning after a nurse in Texas was allowed to travel after treating an Ebola victim who later died.

The UK charity Street Child has spoken to people in Kenema in Sierra Leone whose lives have been devastated by Ebola.

UK pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline says its Ebola vaccine will not be ready until late 2015 and is "going to come too late" for this epidemic.

The Japanese start-up Fove has developed a consumer eye-tracking helmet for use in virtual reality environments.

Brazilian police have arrested a man who they say has confessed to at least 39 murders over a three-year period.

American Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol and her husband David talk about the moment she found out she had the virus.

The umbrella, which has become a symbol of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, has spawned an art movement all of its own.

After President Putin banned fresh food imports from the West, Russian menus began to change. Now, many believe the sanctions will boost the local economy, as Sarah Rainsford reports.

The world's fastest ambulance has been revealed at the Gitex technology show in Dubai.

An eight-year-old boy form Kosovo has been reunited with his mother after returning from Syria.

Vladimir Putin watches on as Belgrade held a large-scale military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its liberation.

Officials say 28 trekkers have been killed by bad weather in the Himalayas. Survivors suffering from hypothermia and frostbite have been airlifted to hospital

Aleem Maqbool travels down the so-called Blues Highway looking at some of the big concerns ahead of the US midterm elections.

Athlete Oscar Pistorius is in court for the fourth day of his sentencing hearing, after being convicted of killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Volunteers in Ukraine risk their lives to recover the bodies of soldiers killed in action in the east of the country.

Football's European governing body has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Serbian and Albanian football associations following violence at a match

The BBC's Tim Whewell gets rare access to Libya's government which is trying to hold the country together from its base in a 1970s hotel

French sculptor Etienne has unveiled his new collection of seven works which are inspired by the philosophy of Plato and, he says, invoke beauty, truth and kindness.

The parents of the Burmese men charged with killing two British tourists in Thailand say their sons are being made into scapegoats.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says the international community is not coping with the exponential growth of the number of displaced people.