A group of ethicists will meet on Monday at the World Health Organization to discuss the wisdom or otherwise of making an experimental drug more widely available to those suffering from Ebola.

 China has sent 2,500 soldiers to the southwest province of Yunnan after an earthquake killed hundreds of people.

 Hopes of finding any more survivors from a landslide that buried a village in western India on Wednesday are fading, as the number of bodies found reaches 66, officials said.

Rescue workers in western India are working to locate survivors of a landslide that has claimed at least 30 lives and buried up to 200 people.

 The death toll in a building collapse in the Indian city of Chennai has passed 40 as rescue workers continue to find more bodies in the wreckage.

 More than 100 people are still feared trapped after a building collapsed in southern India, an official has said.

 Exercise can aid recovery after breast cancer but many women are not active enough, a study suggests.

 Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after a ferry carrying at least 200 people capsized and sank during a storm in Bangladesh.

 Death toll in South Korea's ferry sinking disaster continued to rise to 171 on Thursday, but those recovered from the sunken ferry grew at a relatively slower pace as search operations were hampered by the unexpectedly swift currents.

 Authorities in the US state of Washington have found six more bodies after Saturday's huge landslide, bringing the number known to have been killed to 14, say police.