"Ebola could yet spread to the West", warns Sierra Leone doctor. 8,000 dead so far in that region.
Israel is on the brink of an all-out war with Lebanon's Hezbollah that may drag other regions in the Middle East into the conflict.
North Korea threatens US with its nuclear capabilities.
Germany's anti-Islam movement alarmingly on the rise.
Hundreds more die as Boko Haram attack key cities in North East Nigeria. Unknown casualties so far in the tens of thousands.
In defiance of the caps placed on arms expenditure by Congress President Obama plans an increase in the defense budget for 2016 of $534.3 billion along with $50.9 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, a defense official said.
Cate Blanchett appears at ACCTA acting awards in Sydney wearing no knickers. (Daily Mail).
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And you thought YOU were mad,... didn't you?
