LIBERIA: Chief medical officer Bernice Dahn announced at the weekend that she was quarantining herself for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.
Ms Dahn stressed that she did not have any Ebola symptoms but wanted to ensure that she was not infected.
The World Health Organisation says that 21 days is the maximum incubation period for Ebola, which has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and is hitting Liberia especially hard.

IRAQ: Following a car bomb explosion in Mahmoudiyah, police reported at least 10 people dead and 24 wounded yesterday.
The town about 20 miles south of Baghdad has a mixed Sunni-Shi’ite population.
In a separate attack in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi military convoy, killing two soldiers and wounding five.

PAKISTAN: A US drone strike in the town of Wana, South Waziristan, killed four suspected militants yesterday.
Local officials and Taliban members confirmed that those killed were two Arabs and two of their local allies.
Pakistan’s army claimed to have largely cleared militants from South Waziristan in 2009 and is now engaged in North Waziristan in an operation that began in June.

FRANCE: Air France pilots ended a 14-day strike yesterday after grounding roughly half of the airline’s flights.
An spokesman for the SNPL union confirmed its belief that conditions were still not in place for proper dialogue between the pilots and Air France management to overcome problems leading to the strike.
On Wednesday the firm offered to scrap a central part of its plan to shift most European operations to low-cost carrier Transavia.

LIBYA: Government official Ageila Saleh Eissa pleaded with the international community at the weekend to help Libya stand up to Islamist-allied militias that have taken control of government buildings.
House of Representatives President Mr Eissa told the annual UN general assembly that it must impose sanctions or risk terrorist expansion throughout North Africa.