Ebola in Liberia Health workers in protective suits look at an ambulance upon its arrival at Island Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images. The US Centers for Disease Control is to confirm on Tuesday the first case of Ebola ...

Pro-democracy demonstrators gather for the third night in Hong Kong. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images. Pro-democracy protest leaders in Hong Kong and the region's government refused to budge as a critical day approached for the mass ...

MDG : World Conference on Indigenous Peoples at UN The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples was described as a historic moment by the Sami president, Aili Keskitalo. Photograph: Yubi Hoffmann/UN Photo. Governments have agreed to draw up ...

Apple's new Health app is part of iOS 8, but third-party HealthKit apps are missing for now. Photograph: PR. Apple may have launched its iOS 8 software update for iOS devices, but one of its key features ran into last-minute problems forcing developers to pull ...

Islamic State militants have threatened to target the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response to Barack Obama's campaign to "degrade and destroy" the organisation. The video, in the style of a blockbuster movie trailer for what is ...

Richard III died in the thick of battle after losing his helmet and coming under a hail of blows from vicious medieval weapons, new research has shown. Detailed scans of the king's bones show that he sustained 11 wounds at or near the time of his death, nine ...

'Given the right conditions, nationalism will always discover an “other” against which to define itself.' Photograph: Murdo MacLeod. Since I believe the Scots are sensible, I think they will vote no to independence on Thursday. But, whichever way the vote goes, ...

Markus Persson: 'I'm aware this goes against a lot of what I've said in public.' Photograph: Emma Johansson/Press Association Images. Name: Markus Persson. AKA: Notch, Markus Alexei. Age: 35. Appearance: Bald, or wearing a hat. At a party or behind a ...

The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, (right) and his Iraqi counterpart, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, during the paris conference. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA. Leaders and diplomats from more than 30 countries pledged to use "whatever means necessary" ...

Sir Roger Moore has said he is "totally distraught" at the death of Richard Kiel, who played steel-toothed villain Jaws in two James Bond films. Kiel appeared with Moore on Radio 4's The Reunion only last week to talk about the films. Moore, 86, said: "I am ...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan at the Africa Union Peace and Security Council Summit on Terrorism last week. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters. For a while it took centre stage in the world's gaze but five months on the kidnapping of schoolgirls ...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan at the Africa Union Peace and Security Council Summit on Terrorism last week. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters. For a while it took centre stage in the world's gaze but five months on the kidnapping of schoolgirls ...

The Apple Watch launches into a crowded market with dozens of rivals - but are any of them worth buying? Share · Tweet this. Email. Samuel Gibbs · theguardian.com, Thursday 11 September 2014 09.51 EDT. Jump to comments (…) Apple CEO Tim Cook ...

Apple unveils two new iPhones, The iPhone 6 and iPhone Plus, at an event in Cupertino, California. The two larger iPhones aim to meet consumer demand for larger "phablet" smartphones. Apple chief executive Tim Cook calls them the best Apple phones to ...

Dogs Asbo (L), wearing a union flag and Joined forces: the English take too much pride in a tradition that can hold us back. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images. Perhaps Westminster politicians should have spent more time creating a more equal ...

Alex Salmond, as Scotland's first minister, has regular private meetings with the Queen. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA. Buckingham Palace last night insisted the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum is for the people of the country to decide ...

The findings are consistent with US and Ukrainian assertions the Boeing 777 was brought down by an anti-aircraft missile. Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty. Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was destroyed in an instant when the cockpit and other parts ...

A Greek car ferry has been hired as last-minute accommodation for Libya's embattled parliament, which has fled the country's civil war to the small eastern town of Tobruk. The 17,000-ton Elyros liner has been deployed, complete with its Greek crew, as a ...

A Greek car ferry has been hired as last-minute accommodation for Libya's embattled parliament, which has fled the country's civil war to the small eastern town of Tobruk. The 17,000-ton Elyros liner has been deployed, complete with its Greek crew, as a ...

Al-Shabaab has appointed a new leader, only days after Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in an air strike south of Mogadishu. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP. Al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamic extremist group, has named a new leader after confirming the ...