Head doctor fighting Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone contracts the deadly virus

Sheik Umar Khan has been hailed a 'national hero' by government for his work saving victims of the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 600 people in West Africa

 Sheik Umar Khan, 39, was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African country

The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the president's office said.

The 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan, hailed as a "national hero" by the health ministry, was leading the fight to control an outbreak that has killed 206 people in the West African country.

There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola which can kill up to 90 percent of those infected, although the mortality rate of the current outbreak is lower at around 60 percent.

Across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, 632 people have died from the illness, according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) data, putting great strain on the health systems of some of Africa's poorest countries.

Suicide bombs in Kaduna kill 82, ex-leader Buhari targeted

 At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead a crowd in prayer.

The attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which considers all those who do not share its views to be enemies. But it may also have been linked to politics before the 2015 elections.

In the deadliest attack, a bomber in a car full of explosives hurtled towards Buhari's convoy at the crowded Kawo market, his son told Reuters on the scene and police said later. A Red Cross official said at least 50 people were killed there.

Boko Haram bomb attacks kill at least 80

Two blasts in the city of Kaduna bear hallmarks of Boko Haram, the Islamist group terrorising the country's north 

A screengrab taken from a video released by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, with Abubakar Shekau (C)- if Boko Haram is responsible for Wednesday's attack, it underscores the risks moderate clerics take speaking out against it

Two bomb blasts in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna killed at least 82 people on Wednesday, officials said, in attacks that bore the hallmarks of violent Islamist group Boko Haram.

A suicide bomber targeting a moderate Muslim cleric killed at least 32 of the cleric's congregation on a busy commercial road. Shortly after, a second bomb blast killed 50 people in the crowded Kawo market on Wednesday, a local Red Cross worker on the scene, who declined to be named, told Newsalertexpress.

Thousands were gathered for prayers with Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi in Murtala Muhammed square, and when his convoy pulled up, the bomber lunged at him before being stopped by his private security, witnesses and police said.

Brad Pitt and Anjelina Jolie to be married - in film

The Hollywood couple, who remain unmarried after nearly a decade together, will play husband and wife in a movie
Brad Pitt and Anjelina Jolie, who remain unmarried in real life, will play husband and wife in a new film.  Pitt, 50, is likely to receive a lesser fee than his wife who wrote the movie and will direct it, according to The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter.

The new film is By the Sea which has been described as an "intimate character driven drama" by Universal Pictures.

Speaking to Extra TV earlier this year Jolie, 39, said: "It's not a big movie, not an action movie. It's the kind of movie we love but aren't often cast in. It's a very experimental, independent type film where we get to be actors together and be really raw, open, try things."

It is the couple's first film together since Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 which led to their off-screen romance.

MH17: Holland comes to mournful standstill as victims of Malaysia Airlines begin journey home

As the first of MH17's 298 victims arrive in Holland from Ukraine they are greeted by a nation in still in shock 

People carry a coffin containing the remains of a victim of crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 during a ceremony at Eindhoven airport in the Netherlands

Out of the carnage, chaos and unspeakable horror finally came a moment of calm.
A small dot appeared in the cloudless blue sky above the Dutch city of Eindhoven, gradually getting larger as the first plane carrying victims of last week's Malaysia Airlines disaster came in to land.

On it were 16 bodies, carried aboard the Hercules C-130 which just a few hours earlier had set off from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Then came a second plane, an Australian Boeing C-17, which touched down carrying a further 24 corpses.

Finally, the victims of this awful tragedy were coming home.
As the two planes with their precious cargo taxied into position and dulled their engines in front of up to 1,000 gathered relatives, a lone trumpeter stepped forward to play the Last Post; the profoundly moving lament which echoed across a now silent airfield.

And at 4pm, this traumatised nation – from which two thirds of the MH17 passengers originated – came to a halt.