Miami (AFP) - Most of the people infected with Ebola in the West Africa epidemic that began in 2014 got sick through contact with a small number of superspreaders with the disease, researchers said Monday. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows such superspreaders can be extremely dangerous when it comes to in ...

Mumbai (AFP) - Indian doctors put an Egyptian believed to be the world's heaviest woman on a special liquid diet Monday as they prepared her for an emergency weight-loss operation. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighs around 500 kilogrammes (1,100 pounds) and had not left her house in more than two decades until arriving in Mumbai at the weekend for bar ...

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah joined Talk To Al Jazeera on Saturday, one day after his autobiography, Born a Crime, won the Debut Author and Outstanding Biography/Autobiography prizes at the NAACP Image Awards. Born in 1984 to a black mother and a white father in apartheid South Africa, at a time when interracial u ...

Tunis (AFP) - A rise in brutal tactics by Tunisian security forces in line with nationwide emergency laws to counter terrorism are threatening reforms in Tunisia, Amnesty International said in a report Monday. Since the 2011 Tunisian revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, the North African country has been wracked by jihadist attacks that ha ...