Syria, Ebola failures highlight UN shortcomings Newsday Add comment Reprints + - | FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2007 file photo, the flags of member nations fly outside of the United Nations headquarters in New York. Since the U.N. was born from the ashes of World War II, it has grown from 51 members to 193. ...
Syria, Ebola failures highlight UN shortcomings Star Telegram Associated Press | UNITED NATIONS — The Ebola epidemic and the war in Syria have cast a spotlight on the inadequacies of the United Nations as it tries to operate in a globalized world with a power structure that hasn't changed since 1945. | To...
Syria, Ebola failures highlight UN shortcomings The Miami Herald The Ebola epidemic and the war in Syria have cast a spotlight on the inadequacies of the United Nations as it tries to operate in a globalized world with a power structure that hasn't changed since 1945. | To many who know the U.N. well, the organiza...
Red Cross Team Brings Clean Water and Helps Reduce Cholera Cases All Africa [IFRC]Providing clean water is essential during a cholera outbreak as it helps stop the spread of the disease through contaminated food and water. This is always done alongside promoting good hygiene and sanitation practices. During a recent cholera ...
How images shape our cities The Guardian Picturing Place: From John Snow’s Cholera map to Le Corbusier’s plan for a contemporary city and Moose’s ‘clean graffiti’ – images shape our ideas and precipitate change, for better or worse | Part one: The iconic origins of Brazil’s ca...
Ryan Knight, 'Real World: New Orleans' cast member, dies CNN updated 3:40 PM EST, Fri November 28, 2014 | Ryan Knight, who was part of the 2010 cast of MTV's "Real World New Orleans," has died, according to police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Police say that after the 28-year-old went out with friends on Thanksgivin...
Germany unveils special jet to transport Ebola patients The Siasat Daily Berlin, November 27: | The German government unveiled Thursday at Berlin's Tegel Airport a special medical evacuation plane, which is designed to transport patients infected with Ebola. | The aircraft "Robert Koch" is equipped with special "isolation...
Experimental Ebola vaccine shows promise, researchers say Newsday Add comment Reprints + - | The early symptoms of an Ebola infection include fever, headache, muscle aches and sore throat. It can be difficult to distinguish between Ebola and malaria, typhoid fever or cholera. Only in later stages do people with Ebo...
Vampire Skeletons Exhumed In Polish Cemetery With Sickles Over Necks The Inquisitr According to Metro U.K., the bodies have been buried since between the 1600’s and 1700’s, when vampires were at their height of fright. The sickles and large rocks were meant to lessen the risk the undead coming back to life and leaving t...
Six vampire graves found in tiny Polish village of Drawsko South China Morning Post At least six suspected vampires were buried with blades and rocks in a tiny farming village in Poland during the 17th and 18th centuries. | The dead were buried with sharp sickles across their throats meant to sever their heads if they tried to rise ...
Group reports uptick in Haiti cholera patients Tampa Bay Online PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's health system still does not have the capacity to adequately treat cholera patients and there has been an uptick in cases in the country's capital, an official with the international medical group Doctors Without ...
