Almost 50 years after Nat Nakasa, a black South African writer who railed against the injustices of apartheid, died in New York City, his remains will be returned to his home country.

A rare photograph of a nighttime breach.

Lawyers are nearing the end of formal submissions before the case is handed over to Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa.

Public health authorities are wrestling with whether and how to bring an experimental medicine to the countries in Africa afflicted with the virus.

A summit meeting of African leaders in Washington did not give priority to discussing the outbreak.

Some Ebola patients still die at a Sierra Leone hospital, but just as many, if not more, are dying in the city and neighboring villages, increasing the risk of the disease’s spread.

In a rare rebuke, Egypt’s highest Muslim religious authority refused to approve court-ordered death sentences on leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, court officials said.

The Food and Drug Administration is permitting an experimental drug from Tekmira Pharmaceuticals even though it had halted a trial because side effects were observed.