The BBC's Tulip Mazumdar reports from south-east Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak first started in March 2014.

Argentina has defaulted on its debt - for the second time in 13 years.

In his book Tiki Pop, Sven Kirsten describes how Tiki bars and cocktails became a welcome escape for Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

Scientists have been aware of Ebola since the mid-1970s, but so far no vaccine or cure has been developed.

The Louvre in Paris has called in pest controllers after an infestation of rats was spotted in the gallery's gardens.

Nitin Srivastava reports from the barricaded town of Saharanpur where the situation remains tense.

Two women had a narrow escape when they were nearly hit by a freight train on a bridge in Monroe County, Indiana.

A burst water main on Los Angeles' iconic Sunset Boulevard has caused flooding at the University of California, Los Angeles, local officials say.

Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar takes a look around a makeshift laboratory trying to battle the Ebola outbreak in Guinea.

The BBC's Dougal Shaw tests out a digital bracelet designed to help people avoid getting too much sun exposure.

The BBC's Jonathan Beale says artillery fire from the Ukraine military seems to be intensifying in Donetsk.

Andrew Harding reports on the ongoing violence in the Central Africa Republic.

Amphetamine drugs worth millions of pounds were sent by international parcel courier from the UK to Australia.

Diana Mather and Rosamund Urwin discuss who it is appropriate to invite to the cinema to watch Fifty Shades of Grey.

A dancer from Hull who became the first British dancer to be employed by the Mariinsky Ballet in Russia returns to the UK to perform with the company at Covent Garden.

Fresh fighting, close to where the Malaysia Airlines jet went down in Ukraine, has prevented international monitors from accessing the crash site for the second day in a row.

Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 US vice-presidential candidate, has launched a subscription-based online television channel.

A team of Dutch forensic investigators will again try to access the Malaysia Airlines wreckage site in eastern Ukraine.

The Australian government has approved the development of what could potentially be the country's biggest coal mine.

The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, has confirmed that the pilots of a plane that crashed in Mali last Thursday had asked for a change of course.