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ABUJA Nigeria: doctor has contracted Ebola A UNICEF worker speaks with drivers of motorcycle taxis about the symptoms of Ebola virus and best practices to help prevent its spread, in the city of Voinjama, in Lofa County, Liberia in this April 2014 UNICEF handout photo. Picture: Ahmed Jallanzo/UNICEF/Handout via Reuters Nigerian authorities said on Monday that a doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa's largest city. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed the positive test, said 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian were being monitored, with eight placed in quarantine including three who were “symptomatic.” The confirmed case “is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died,” Chukwu told journalists. A quarantine unit has been set up in Lagos and blood tests from the three people displaying Ebol...

BBC Portsmouth Football Club have honoured every member of the 'Pompey Pals' who fell during World War One by including their name on the new home kit. The Pompey Pals, the 14th and 15th battalions of the Hampshire Regiment, recruited heavily at Fratton Park. They went on to suffer heavy losses at the Great War, with more than 1,400 making the ultimate sacrifice. "This is not about celebration, it's about commemoration," Pompey fan and historian Bob Beech told BBC Solent. "We need to remember what all of these men and women were doing during the Great War across the region." The names of the 1,400 Pompey Pals who fell in the Great War are woven into the new home shirt The shirt was launched on the 100th anniversary of Britain's declaration of war on Germany, while the club also unveiled a Pompey Pals memorial at Fratton...

VLADIVOSTOCK -- If the next world war is to happen, it will most likely be in Asia and feature a clash between the incumbent hegemon, the United States, and the principal challenger, China. The good news is China does not want war now and in the foreseeable future, primarily because Beijing knows too well that the odds are not on its side. But if we look ahead 20 years from now, in 2034, the circumstances will have shifted significantly. NOT NOW There are three reasons war is unlikely anytime soon. First , despite the double-digit annual growth in its defense budgets, China's military still significantly lags behind the U.S.' It will take China 15 to 20 years to attain parity or near-parity with the U.S.-Japan allied forces in the East Asian littoral. Second , for all the talk of mutual interdependence, China depends on America much more than the other way round. China is still critically reliant on the U.S and its allies, the EU and Japan, as its principal expor...