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Iraq's Maliki quits to end deadlock

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki is to step aside in favour of Haider al-Abadi, ending the country's political deadlock, state TV says.


Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, 14 August 2014Ebola crisis 'vastly underestimated'

The UN's health agency says the scale of the Ebola outbreak appears to be "vastly underestimated", as the death toll reaches 1,069.

 Robin Williams posing during a photocall of "The Big White" directed by Mark Mylod, in Rome 15 November 2005Williams 'had Parkinson's' at death

Robin Williams was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's disease at the time of his death, his wife has said.

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